Is mathematics inevitable?:a miscellany
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Published: |
Mathematical Association of America,
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Publisher Address: | Washington, D.C. |
Publication Dates: | c2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Spectrum series |
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Item Description: |
Mathematics in fun and in earnest. Brief lives. De propria vita. Tangled tale. Calculating people. Mathematics and mathematicians. Assigning driver's license numbers. So-called Euler-Diderot incident. Strong law of small numbers. There are three times as many obtuse-angled triangles as there are acute-angled ones. Indiana's squared circle. I want to be a mathematician. Why your classes are larger than "average". Mathematics and the physical world. Mathematics made difficult. Theodorus' irrationality proofs. Emblems of mind. On the set of legs of a horse. On the origin of certain typical problems. Quadrature of the circle. Great mental calculators. George Boole and the calculus of finite differences. Problem with postulate 5. Why is a restaurant's business worse in the owner's eyes than in the customers'? On the value of mathematics (books) |
Carrier Form: | x, 325 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780883855669 0883855666 |
Index Number: | O1 |
CLC: | O1-539 |
Call Number: | O1-539/I731 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references. Dieudonné on mathematics -- Why is mathematics? -- Is mathematics inevitable? -- A defense of quadratic equations -- Obtuse triangles -- A small paradox -- Applied mathematics -- The law of small numbers -- The parallel postulate -- Arithmetic in the United States -- The Moore method -- Early calculus -- Problems -- A tangled tale -- A brief life -- Cardano -- Boole and finite differences -- Calculating prodigies -- James Smith, circle-squarer -- Legislating [pi] -- Mathematics and music -- Mathematics books -- Irrational square roots -- The Euler-Diderot anecdote -- Mathematics made difficult -- Mathematical humor. |