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Mathematics and the Imagination

By Edward Kasner , James Newman

Book information

Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
2001
ISBN
0486417034
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
9 MB (9250506 bytes)
Edition
illustrated edition
Pages
393\393
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

Explores some of the lesser known and more imaginative aspects of mathematics, such as the googolplex, four-dimensional geometry, puzzles, paradoxes, the laws of chance, rubber-sheet geometry, and the historical development of calculus. Originally published by Simon and Schuster in 1940.

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