The Harmony of the world : 75 years of Mathematics magazine / edited by Gerald L. Alexanderson ; with the assistance of Peter Ross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexanderson, Gerald L.

Ross, Peter, 1940-

Series:

Spectrum, 2638-9045 ; v. 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Periodicals--History.

Mathematics.

Mathematics magazine--History.

Mathematics magazine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages)

Other Title:

Harmony of the world : seventy-five years of Mathematics magazine

75 years of Mathematics magazine

Seventy-five years of Mathematics magazine

Place of Publication:

[Washington, DC] : Mathematical Association of America, c2007.

System Details:

Mode of access : World Wide Web

Contents:

Introduction Perfect Numbers, Zena Garrett (NT) Rejected Papers of Three Famous Mathematicians, Arnold Emch (H) Review of Men of Mathematics, G. Waldo Dunnington (H) Oslo under the Integral Sign, G. Waldo Dunnington (H) Vigeland's Monument to Abel in Oslo, G. Waldo Dunnington (H) The History of Mathematics, Otto Neugebauer (H) Numerical Notations and Their Influence on Mathematics, D. H. Lehmer (NT) The Generalized Weierstrass Approximation Theorem, Marshall H. Stone (An) Hypatia of Alexandria, A. W. Richeson (H) Gauss and the Early Development of Algebraic Numbers, E. T. Bell (Al) The Harmony of the World, Morris Kline (M) What Mathematics Has Meant to Me, E. T. Bell (M) Mathematics and Mathematicians from Abel to Zermelo, Einar Hille (H) Inequalities, Richard Bellman (An) A Number System with an Irrational Base, George Bergman (NT) Generalizations of Theorems about Triangles, Carl B. Allendoerfer (G) A Radical Suggestion, Roy J. Dowling (NT) Topology and Analysis, R. C. Buck (An, T) The Sequence $\{\sin n\}$, C. Stanley Ogilvy (An) Probability Theory and the Lebesgue Integral, Truman Botts (PS) On Round Pegs in Square Holes and Square Pegs in Round Holes, David Singmaster (G) $\pi _t$: 1832-1879, Underwood Dudley (M) Trigonometric Identities, Andy R. Magid (Al) A Property of 70, Paul Erdős (NT) Hamilton's Discovery of Quaternions, B. L. van der Waerden (Al, H) Geometric Extremum Problems, G. D. Chakerian and L. H. Lange (G) Pólya's Enumeration Theorem by Example, Alan Tucker (CG) Logic from A to G, Paul R. Halmos (L) Tiling the Plane with Congruent Pentagons, Doris Schattschneider (G) Unstable Polyhedral Structures, Michael Goldberg (G) Leonhard Euler, 1707-1783, J. J. Burckhardt (H) Love Affairs and Differential Equations, Steven H. Strogatz (An) The Evolution of Group Theory, Israel Kleiner (Al) Design of an Oscillating Sprinkler, Bart Braden (AM) The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western Thought, Judith V. Grabiner (M) Geometry Strikes Again, Branko Grünbaum (G) Why Your Classes Are Larger than "Average", David Hemenway (PS) The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links, W. B. R. Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett (CG, T) A Brief History of Mathematics Magazine Briefly Noted The Problem Section

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society. 2012

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Print version: Harmony of the world :

ISBN:

9780883859667 (online)

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