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Is mathematics inevitable?: a miscellany
Is mathematics inevitable?: a miscellany
Publisher
Mathematical Association of America
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
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Dieudonné on mathematics
Why is mathematics?
Is mathematics inevitable?
Defense of quadratic equations
Obtuse triangles
Small paradox
Applied mathematcis
Law of small numbers
Paralell postulate
Arithmetic in the United Staes
Moore method
Early calculus
Problems
Tangled tale
Brief life
Cardano
Boole and finite differences
Calculating prodigies
James Smith, circle-squarer
Legislating [pi]
Mathematics and music
Mathematics books
Irrational square roots
Euler-Diderot anecdote
Mathematics made difficult
Mathematical humor.
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Humor
Mathematics
Mathematics -- Humor
Mathematics -- Miscellanea
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Alexanderson, Gerald L
Altshiller-Court, Nathan,b. 1881
Aubry, John
Cardano, Girolamo,1501-1576
Carroll, Lewis,1832-1898
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Cohen, Patricia Cline
Dieudonné, Jean,1906-1992
Gallian, Joseph A
Gillings, Richard J
Guy, Richard K
Hallerberg, Arthur E.1918-1978
Halmos, Paul R.1916-2006
Hemenway, David
Kline, Morris,1908
Klosinski, Leonard F
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
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9780883855669
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