Title: The magic of numbers,
Authors: Bell, Eric Temple, 1883-1960
Publisher: Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill book company, inc.
Year: 1946
Subjects: Number concept; Mathematics Philosophy; Mathematics History.; Mathematics history
Contents: Past returns -- Royal mace -- For their own sake -- Decisive century -- Difference of opinion -- Wisdom as a profession -- Not much, but enough -- One or many? -- Dream and a doubt -- Half man, half myth -- Discord and harmony -- Mythology transformed -- Cosmos as number -- Himself made it? -- Intimations of the infinite -- Miscarriage of reason -- Politics and geometry -- "Another I" -- Number deified -- Pythagoras in purgatory -- Saints and heretics -- Turning point -- Skeptical bishop -- believer and disbeliever -- Changing views -- Return of the master.