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Mathematics for the Million

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Author(s): Lancelot Hogben,J. F. Horrabin
Edition: 3
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Inc.
Year: 1951

Language: English
Pages: 697
City: New York

I. Mathematics, the Mirror of Civilization 17
II. First Steps in Measurement or MATHEMATICS IN PREHISTORY 40
III. The Grammar of Size, Order, and Number or TRANSLATING NUMBER LANGUAGE 73
IV. Euclid Without Tears or WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH GEOMETRY 115
V. From Crisis to Crossword Puzzles or THE BEGINNINGS OF ARITHMETIC 193
VI. The Size of the World or WHAT WE CAN DO WITH TRIGONOMETRY 234
VII. The Dawn of Nothing or HOW ALGEBRA BEGAN 287
VIII. The World Encompassed or SPHERICAL TRIANGLES 347
IX. The Reformation Geometry or WHAT ARE GRAPHS 394
X. The Collectivization of Arithmetic or HOW LOGARITHMS WERE DISCOVERED 463
XI. The Arithmetic of Growth and Shape or WHAT THE CALCULUS IS ABOUT 511
XII. The Algebra of the Chessboard and THE CARD PACK 575
XIII. Statistics or THE ARITHMETIC OF POPULATIONS 609