The World of mathematics/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Mineola, NY:
Dover Pub.,
2000
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Table of Contents:
- T.1. Parts I-IV: General survey. Historical and biographical. Arithmetic, numbers and the art of counting. Mathematics of space and motion
- τ.2. Parts V-VII: Mathematics and the physical world. Mathematics and social science. The laws of chance
- τ.3. Parts VIII-XVII: Statistics and the design of experiments. The supreme art of abstraction: group theory. Mathematics of infinity. Mathematical truth and the structure of mathematics. The mathematical way of thinking. Mathematics and logic. The unreasonableness of mathematics. How to solve it. The vocabulary of mathematics. Mathematics as an art
- τ.4. Parts XVIII-XXVI: The mathematician. Mathematical machines: Can a machine think? Mathematics in warfare. A mathematical theory of art. Mathematics of the good. Mathematics in literature. Mathematics in music. Mathematics as a culture clue. Amusements, puzzles, fancies