Mathematical Scandals

Name: Mathematical Scandals
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ISBN: 9781884550102

ISBN-10: 188455010X

ISBN-13: 9781884550102

Edition: 1997

Authors: Theoni Pappas

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Book details

List price: $10.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Wide World Publishing/Tetra
Publication date: 4/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English



Introduction


The irrational number cover-up


Ada Byron Lovelace's addiction


Exposing L'Hospital's claim to fame


Whose solids are they anyway?


The paranoia of Kurt Godel


Newton's apple never was


Mathematical "Brooklyn Bridge"


Christians murder Hypatia


Cantor driven to nervous breakdown


The mathematician who pleaded insanity


The scandalous treatment of Alan Turing


Fourier cooks his own goose


The secret work of Carl Gauss


Female mathematician crashes the old boy's club


Newton was no sweet cookie


Where's the Nobel Prize in mathematics?


Was Galois jinxed?


I sleep therefore I think


The feud over who invented calculus


The truth about Einstein and Maric - It's all relative


Cardano vs. Tartaglia - Who was maligned?


Bibliography


Index


About the author