Contents Briefing

This book covers more than 60 thousand items of commonly used and important vocabulary that newly emerged in the field of pure mathematics and applied mathematics in recent years. It was compiled on the basis of the author's experience in editing math books and on the math teaching and researching for 40 years. Reviewed seriously by experts from all different fields,it seeks to achieve "exact meaning,free of ambiguous explanation and systematic". A list of translated names of more than 3000 mathematicians in both ancient and modern times is appended in the end for all scientific workers,university teachers and students,as well as translators.

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As an integral part of China's most prestigious university---Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University Press (TUP) has grown to be one of the leading academic and higher education publishers in China since it's founding in 1980. Today, TUP has more than 400 employees all over China and its sales amounted to RMB700 million Yuan in 2005. TUP has received various honors, such as the "National Excellent Publisher", "Advanced University Press", "Beijing Best 10 Publisher in ...    more about