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Mathematics.

Title: Mathematics. Edited by Samuel Rapport and Helen Wright. [Academic editorial adviser: Hollis R. Cooley].
Author: Rapport, Samuel Berder, 1903-
Publication: New York, Washington Square Press [1964, ©1963]

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Wright, Helen, 1914-1997

Description

319 pages illustrations; 18 cm

Series Statement

The New York University library of science.

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Contents

Biography of mathematics. Archimedes / George Sarton -- Newton / Alfred Hooper -- The prince of mathematicians : Gauss / Eric Temple Bell -- Evariste Galois / George Sarton -- William Rowan Hamilton / Sir Edmund Whittaker -- Einstein's great idea / James R. Newman -- Mathematics and the mathematician. The nature of mathematics / Alfred North Whitehead -- A mathematician's apology / G.H. Hardy -- Mathematical discovery / Henri Poincar©♭ -- Some branches of mathematics. Big numbers / George Gamow -- Symbols / Tobias Dantzig -- Geometries / Gilbert N. Lewis -- Change and changeability : the calculus / Edward Kasner and James Newman -- Topology / Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins -- Mathematics and the world around us. Mathematics and modern civilization / Hollis R. Cooley [and others] -- From Cyzicus to Neptune / Eric Temple Bell -- The geometry of the epeira's web / J. Henri Fabre -- Why kitty lands butter-side up / E.E. Slosson -- The laws of chance / M.J. Moroney
(Cont.) Computing and other machines / Wladyslaw Sluckin -- The E=Mc℗ø equation / Albert Einstein.

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Princeton University Library