Mathematician's Delight by W.W. Sawyer, Pelican Book, c.1954, Penguin Books A121

Description: A Pelican Book, #A121, MATHEMATICIAN'S DELIGHT by W. W. Sawyer, c. 1954 by publishing company, Penguin Books. Excerpt from book's front and back cover: "Designed to convince the general reader that mathematic is not a forbidding science but an attractive mental exercise. 'The deserved success of this work is in itself a complete recommendation' Higher Education Journal W. W. Sawyer was born in 1911. He won scholarships to Highgate School and St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1935-7 he was Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics at University College. Dundee, and from 1937-44 at Manchester University. 1945-7 he was at Leicester College of Technology, and was Head of the Mathematics Department there from September, 1945 until 1947. From 1948 to 1951 he was at the University College of the Gold Coast, and is now a lecturer at Canterbury University College, Christchurch, N. Z. In 1945 he broadcast six talks to schools on Mathematics and Life. At Leicester he helped to develop methods of teaching mathematics to apprentices by means of working models. He was a member of the Visual Aids and the Modern Schools Committees of the Mathematiccal Association, 1946-7."

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