Fantasia Mathematica Being a Set of Stories, Together with a Group of Oddments and Diversions, All Drawn from the Universe of Mathematics

Name: Fantasia Mathematica Being a Set of Stories, Together with a Group of Oddments and Diversions, All Drawn from the Universe of Mathematics
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ISBN: 9780387949314

ISBN-10: 0387949313

ISBN-13: 9780387949314

Edition: 1997

Authors: Clifton Fadiman

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Clifton Fadiman's classic collection of mathematical stories, essays and anecdotes first published in 1958, is now back in print. Ranging from the poignant to the comical to the surreal, these selections include writing by Aldous Huxley, Martin Gardner, H.G. Wells, George Gamow, G.H. Hardy, Plato, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and many others. Humorous and mysterious, this collection will please mathematicians and everyone else who loves a good story full of stimulating ideas.In this intriguing collection of stories we learn of the young mathematician who chases his fiancee into the fourth dimension, how a group of Australian soldier's lives were saved by a lesson in basic topology,…

Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Springer New York
Publication date: 4/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 298
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.37" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction



Odd Numbers



Imaginaries



Fractions