Mathematics
By: Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, editors in chief ; Clifton Fadiman, associate editor.
Contributors: Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-; Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-
Series: Gateway to the great books -- 9
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Chicago; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Literature -- Collections.
Other titles: Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Notes: Complements Great books of the western world (AC 1 G7 1952); includes only short works.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: value: Lancelot Hogben / Mathematics, the mirror of civilization; value: Andrew Russell Forsyth / Mathematics, in life and thought; value: Alfred North Whitehead / On mathematical method (from An introduction to mathematics). On the nature of a calculus; value: Bertrand Russell / The study of mathematics. Mathematics and the metaphysicians. Definition of number; value: Edward Kasner & James R. Newman / New names for old. Beyond the Googol; value: Tobias Dantzig / Fingerprints. The empty column; value: Leonhard Euler / The seven bridges of Konigsberg; value: Norman Robert Campbell / Measurement. Numerical laws and the use of mathematics in science; value: William Kingdon Clifford / The postulates of the science of space; value: Henri Poincaré / Space. Mathematical creation. Chance; value: Pierre Simon de Laplace / Probability (from A philosophical essay on probabilities; value: Charles Sanders Peirce / The red and the black.