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Item Details
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MATHEMATICAL CRANKS
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| By: |
Underwood Dudley |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£24.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0883855070 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780883855072 |
| Publisher: |
MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA |
| Pub. date: |
17 October, 1996 |
| Series: |
Spectrum S. |
| Pages: |
383 |
| Description: |
A delightful collection of articles about people who claim they have achieved the mathematically impossible. |
| Synopsis: |
A delightful collection of articles about people who claim they have achieved the mathematically impossible (squaring the circle, duplicating the cube); people who think they have done something they have not (proving Fermat's Last Theorem); people who pray in matrices; people who find the American Revolution ruled by the number 57; people who have in common eccentric mathematical views, some mild (thinking we should count by 12s instead of 10s), some bizarre (thinking that second-order differential equations will solve all problems of economics, politics and philosophy). This is a truly unique book. It is written with wit and style and is a part of folk mathematics. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Mathematical Association of America |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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