Mathematics and the imagination

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Author(s): Edward Kasner, James Newman
Publisher: G. Bell
Year: 1950

Language: English

Title page
Contents (detailed)
Introduction
I. NEW NAMES FOR OLD
II. BEYOND THE GOOGOL
III. π, i, e (PIE)
IV. ASSORTED GEOMETRIES-PLANE AND FANCY l12
V. PASTIMES OF PAST AND PRESENT TIMES
VI. PARADOX LOST AND PARADOX REGAINED
VII. CHANCE AND CHANCEABILITY
VIII. RUBBER-SHEET GEOMETRY
IX. CHANGE AND CHANGEABILITY
EPILOGUE. MATHEMATICS AND THE IMAGINATION
Bibliography
Index