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A mathematician's miscellany.

Author: John E Littlewood
Publisher: London, Methuen [1957]
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Document Type: Book
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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