Title: The problems of mathematics /
Authors: Stewart, Ian, 1945-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Mathematics Popular works
Contents: Nature of mathematics -- Price of primality -- Marginal interest -- Neglected book of euclid -- Parallel thinking -- Ghosts of departed quantities -- Duellist and the monster -- Much ado about knotting -- Purple wallflower -- Squarerooting the unsquarerootable -- Strumpet fortune -- Mathematics of nature -- Oh! catastrophe! -- Patterns of chaos -- Two-and-a-halfth dimension -- Lonely wave -- Dixit algorizmi -- Limits of computability -- Tour of the minefield