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Is mathematics inevitable?
Leonard F. Klosinski
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Mathematical Association of America
Language
English
Pages
325

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Mathematics, Humor, Miscellanea
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Table of Contents

Dieudonné on mathematics : mathematics and mathematicians / Jean Dieudonné
Why is mathematics? : Mathematics and the physical world / Morris Kline
Is mathematics inevitable? : Mathematics in fun and in earnest / Nathan Altshiller Court
A defense of quadratic equations : quadratic equations
Obtuse triangles : there are three times as many obtuse-angled triangles as there are acute-angled ones / Richard K. Guy
Why your classes are larger than "average" / David Hemenway
Why is a restaurant's business worse in the owner's eyes than in the customers'? / Wong Ngai Ying
Applied mathematics : assigning driver's license numbers / Jospeh A. Gallian
The law of small numbers : the strong law of small numbers / Richard K. Guy
The parallel postulate : the problem with Postulate 5 / Richard J. Trudeau
Arithmetic in the United States : a calculating people / Patricia Cline Cohen
The Moore Method: I want to be a mathematician / Paul Halmos
Early calculus
Problems : on the origin of certain typical problems / David Eugene Smith
A tangled tale / Lewis Carroll
A brief life : brief lives / John Aubry
Cardano : the book of my life / Jerome Cardan
Boole and finite differences : George Boole and the calculus of finite differences / J.L. Synge
Calculating prodigies : the great mental calculators / Steven B. Smith
James Smith, circle-squarer : the quadrature of the circle / James Smith
Legislating [pi] : Indiana's squared circle / Arthur E. Hallerberg
Mathematics and music : emblems of mind / Edward Rothstein
Mathematics books : on the value of mathematics (books) / G.L. Alexanderson and L.F. Klosinski
Irrational square roots : Theodorus' irrationality proofs / Robert L. McCabe
The Euler-Diderot anecdote : the so-called Euler-Diderot incident / R.J. Gillings
Mathematics made difficult / Carl E. Linderholm
Mathematical humor : on the set of legs of a horse / Marlow Sholander.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Washington, D.C
Series
Spectrum series, MAA spectrum
Other Titles
Quadratic equations.

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Dewey Decimal Class
510
Library of Congress
QA99 .I83 2008

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Pagination
x, 325 p. :
Number of pages
325

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24546128M
ISBN 10
0883855666
ISBN 13
9780883855669
LCCN
2007940798
OCLC/WorldCat
191051022

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