Riddles in mathematics
Subtitle: a book of paradoxes
By: Eugene P. Northrop
Series: A Pelican Book
Publisher: Penguin Books; PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Eng
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780140204780
Copyright date: 1944
Subjects: Mathematical recreations; Mathematics; Popular works; Jeux mathématiques
Description: What is a paradox? - Paradoxes for everyone - Paradoxes in arithmetic, geometry, probability, logic, higher mathematics - Algebraic fallacies - Geometrical fallacies - Paradoxes of the infinite; Pythagorean theorum - Numbers - Fibonnaci series - Circles - Curves
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.