How long does it take to read Mathematical Ideas?
Mathematical Ideas by Charles David Miller takes about 13 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 46 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1973. 751 pages, about 206,525 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is the summary from my college bookstore. It is for Mathematical Ideas, 11th ed. (published 2008) by Charles D. Miller. One of the biggest issues college math instructors face is capturing and keeping student interest. Over the years, John Hornsby has refined a creative solution--bringing the best of Hollywood into his mathematics classroom.Mathematical Ideasapplies this same strategy of engaging students through video clips from popular cinema and television to the textbook. Alongside fresh data and tools, this Eleventh Edition uses up-to-the-minute images as well as old favorites of math being done in Hollywood. In addition, examples are clarified with additional annotations, chapter summaries are made more intuitive to aid review, and chapter tests now include specific section references, making it easier for students to refer back to topics that need more attention. With great care and effort, the authors have crafted this new edition to serve the needs of today's students and instructors.
Subjects: Mathematics, Mathematics, philosophy
