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An edition of Is mathematics inevitable? (2008)

Is mathematics inevitable?

a miscellany

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This is a collection of gems from the literature of mathematics that shine as brightly today as when they first appeared in print - they deserve to be seen and admired. The selections include two opposing views on the purpose of mathematics, the strong law of small numbers, the treatment of calculus in the 1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica, several proofs that the number of legs on a horse is infinite, a deserved refutation of the ridiculous Euler-Diderot anecdote, the real story of and the Indiana legislature, the reason why Theodorus stopped proving that square roots were irrational when he got to the square root of 17, an excerpt from Mathematics Made Difficult, a glimpse into the mind of a calculating prodigy, and much more. There will be something here for anyone interested in mathematics.

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Mathematical Association of America
Language
English
Pages
325

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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
Genre
Miscellanea, Humor
Other Titles
Quadratic equations.

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Dewey Decimal Class
510
Library of Congress
QA99 .I83 2008, QA

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Pagination
x, 325 p. :
Number of pages
325

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OL23970516M
Internet Archive
ismathematicsine0000unse
ISBN 10
0883855666
ISBN 13
9780883855669
LCCN
2007940798
OCLC/WorldCat
191051022

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