A delightful collection of articles about people who claim they have achieved the mathematically impossible (squaring the circle, duplicating the cube); people who think they have done something they have not (proving Fermat's Last Theorem); people who pray in matrices; people who find the American Revolution ruled by the number 57; people who have in common eccentric mathematical views, some mild (thinking we should count by 12s instead of 10s), some bizarre (thinking that second-order differential equations will solve all problems of economics, politics and philosophy). This is a truly unique book. It is written with wit and style and is a part of folk mathematics.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780883855072
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-88385-507-2
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Erscheinungstermin: 17.10.1996
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 1996
- Serie: Spectrum
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 544 g
- Seiten: 383
- Format (B x H x T): 157 x 236 x 19 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt