Is mathematics inevitable?
Subtitle: a miscellany
By: edited by Underwood Dudley.
Contributors: Klosinski, Leonard F.; Dudley, Underwood.; Alexanderson, Gerald L.; Altshiller-Court, Nathan, b. 1881.; Aubry, John.; Cardano, Girolamo, 1501-1576.; Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.; Cohen, Patricia Cline.; Dieudonné, Jean, 1906-1992.; Gallian, Joseph A.; Gillings, Richard J.; Guy, Richard K.; Guy, Richard K.; Hallerberg, Arthur E. 1918-1978.; Halmos, Paul R. 1916-2006.; Hemenway, David.; Kline, Morris, 1908-; Linderholm, Carl E.; McCabe, Robert L.; Rothstein, Edward, 1952-; Sholander, Marlow.; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944.; Smith, James, 1805-1872.; Smith, Steven Bradley.; Synge, J. L. 1897-; Trudeau, Richard J.; Ying, Wong Ngai.
Series: Spectrum series; MAA spectrum
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780883855669
Subjects: Mathematics -- Miscellanea; Mathematics -- Humor
Genres: Miscellanea; Humor
Other titles: Quadratic equations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Dieudonné on mathematics : mathematics and mathematicians / Jean Dieudonné; title: Why is mathematics? : Mathematics and the physical world / Morris Kline; title: Is mathematics inevitable? : Mathematics in fun and in earnest / Nathan Altshiller Court; title: A defense of quadratic equations : quadratic equations; title: Obtuse triangles : there are three times as many obtuse-angled triangles as there are acute-angled ones / Richard K. Guy; title: Why your classes are larger than "average" / David Hemenway; title: Why is a restaurant's business worse in the owner's eyes than in the customers'? / Wong Ngai Ying; title: Applied mathematics : assigning driver's license numbers / Jospeh A. Gallian; title: The law of small numbers : the strong law of small numbers / Richard K. Guy; title: The parallel postulate : the problem with Postulate 5 / Richard J. Trudeau; title: Arithmetic in the United States : a calculating people / Patricia Cline Cohen; title: The Moore Method: I want to be a mathematician / Paul Halmos; title: Early calculus; title: Problems : on the origin of certain typical problems / David Eugene Smith; title: A tangled tale / Lewis Carroll; title: A brief life : brief lives / John Aubry; title: Cardano : the book of my life / Jerome Cardan; title: Boole and finite differences : George Boole and the calculus of finite differences / J.L. Synge; title: Calculating prodigies : the great mental calculators / Steven B. Smith; title: James Smith, circle-squarer : the quadrature of the circle / James Smith; title: Legislating [pi] : Indiana's squared circle / Arthur E. Hallerberg; title: Mathematics and music : emblems of mind / Edward Rothstein; title: Mathematics books : on the value of mathematics (books) / G.L. Alexanderson and L.F. Klosinski; title: Irrational square roots : Theodorus' irrationality proofs / Robert L. McCabe; title: The Euler-Diderot anecdote : the so-called Euler-Diderot incident / R.J. Gillings; title: Mathematics made difficult / Carl E. Linderholm; title: Mathematical humor : on the set of legs of a horse / Marlow Sholander.