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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
John E Littlewood |
| ISBN: | 1114152765 9781114152762 |
| OCLC Number: | 1826483 |
| Notes: | "Reprinted with minor corrections 1957." |
| Description: | vii, 136 p. diagrs., tables. 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Mathematics with minimum raw material.--From the mathematical tripos.--Cross-purposes, unconcious assumptions, howlers, misprints, etc.--The zoo.--Ballistics.--The dilemma of probability theory.--From Fermat's last theorem to the abolition of capital punishment.--A mathematical education.--Review of Ramanujan's collected papers.--Three reviews.--Newton and the attraction of a sphere.--Large numbers.--The discovery of Neptune.--The Adams-Airy affair.--'Lion and man'. |
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