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W.W. Sawyer

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in St. Ives (England), The United Kingdom

April 05, 1911

Died

February 15, 2008

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Walter Warwick Sawyer (or W.W. Sawyer) was a mathematician, mathematics educator and author, who taught on several continents.
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Average rating: 4.11 · 372 ratings · 63 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mathematician's Delight 4.01 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1943 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prelude to Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) 4.10 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1955 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Is Calculus About? 4.18 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1961 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Concrete Approach to Abstract Algebra 4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1978 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A First Look at Numerical Functional Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics) 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vision in Elementary Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Path to Modern Mathematics really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1966 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The search for pattern (His Introducing mathematics, 3) (v. 3) by W.W. Sawyer, Germano Facetti (Illustrator) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1970 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Introducing Mathematics, Vol. 1: Vision in Elementary Mathematics 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1970	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mathematics in Theory and Practice 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The art of reasoning consists in getting hold of the subject at the right end, of seizing on the few general ideas that illuminate the whole, and of persistently organizing all subsidiary facts round them.”
― W. W. Sawyer, Prelude to Mathematics

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“An activity engaged in purely for its consequences, without any pleasure for the activity itself, is likely to be poorly executed.”
― W.W. Sawyer

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“The main difficulty the student of groups meets is not that of following the argument, which is nearly always straightforward, but of grasping the purpose of the investigation.”
― W. W. Sawyer, Prelude to Mathematics

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