From here to infinity / Ian Stewart.
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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996Description: x, 310 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN: 0192832026Subject(s): Mathematics -- Popular works | MathematicsDDC classification: 510 LOC classification: QA93 | .S734 1996| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Rev. ed. of: The problems of mathematics. 2nd ed. 1992.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-297) and index.
1. The Nature of Mathematics -- 2. The Price of Primality -- 3. Marginal Interest -- 4. Parallel Thinking -- 5. The Miraculous Jar -- 6. Ghosts of Departed Quantities -- 7. The Duellist and the Monster -- 8. The Purple Wallflower -- 9. Much Ado About Knotting -- 10. More Ado About Knotting -- 11. Squarerooting the Unsquarerootable -- 12. Squaring the Unsquarable -- 13. Strumpet Fortune -- 14. The Mathematics of Nature -- 15. The Patterns of Chaos -- 16. The Two-and-a-Halfth Dimension -- 17. Dixit Algorizmi -- 18. The Limits of Computability -- 19. The Ultimate in Technology Transfer.
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