Mathematical Cranks (Spectrum)
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Mathematical Cranks (Spectrum)
Book Details
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Logic & Brain Teasers
- Condition
- Used
- ISBN-13
- 9780883855072
- ISBN-10
- 0883855070
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ISBN: 0883855070
Author: Dudley, Underwood
Condition: Used
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.
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