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Is mathematics inevitable?：a miscellany

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Group Author: Halmos Paul R.; (Paul Richard), 1916-2006.; Cohen Patricia Cline.; Hemenway David.; Dudley Underwood.; Kline Morris, 1908-; Dieudonné Jean, 1906-1992.; Linderholm Carl E.; Aubry John.; McCabe Robert L.; Gallian Joseph A.; Rothstein Edward, 1952-; Alexanderson Gerald L.; Sholander Marlow.; Gillings Richard J.; Smith David Eugene, 1860-1944.; Cardano Girolamo, 1501-1576.; Smith James, 1805-1872.; Guy Richard K.; Smith Steven Bradley.; Klosinski Leonard F.; Synge J. L.; (John Lighton), 1897-; Trudeau Richard J.; Carroll Lewis, 1832-1898.; Ying Wong Ngai.; Hallerberg Arthur E.; (Arthur Edward), 1918-1978.; Altshiller-Court Nathan. b. 1881.
Published: Mathematical Association of America,
Publisher Address: Washington, D.C.
Publication Dates: c2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Spectrum series
Subjects:
Mathematics.
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.

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