Developing Mathematical Maturity

Lynn Arthur Steen
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Lynn Arthur Steen: St. Olaf College, Department of Mathematics

A chapter in The Future of College Mathematics, 1983, pp 99-110 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.” If Potter Stewart hadn’t coined this phrase, mathematicians would have. Trying to define “mathematical maturity” is about as hopeless a task as defining obscenity, or, for that matter, justice or love. Nevertheless, since that is our task, let us begin.

Keywords: Discrete Mathematic; Mathematical Ability; Analytic Geometry; Calculus Sequence; College Freshman (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-5510-9_10

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