Mathematical cranks / Underwood Dudley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dudley, Underwood, author.

Series:

Spectrum, 2638-9045 ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Miscellanea.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 372 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : The Mathematical Association of America, 1992.

System Details:

Mode of access : World Wide Web

Contents:

Alphabet, Application of Pyramid Height to the American Revolution, The Role of 57 in the Applied Mathematics Base for the Number System, The Best Bitterness, Cranks' Calculus, Celestial Cantor's Diagonal Process Congressional Record, Mathematics in the Constant Society, The Consultation, Lack of, of Cranks with Experts Crank, Case Study of a Crank, The Making of a Deduction, The Joy of Duplication of the Cube Ellipse, Circumference of an Encouraging Cranks, The Folly of Equations, Solving Fermat's Last Theorem Fermat's Little Theorem Fifth Postulate, Euclid's Four-Color Theorem, The Gödel's Theorem Goldbach Conjecture, The Greed Incomprehensibility of Crank's Works Infinity, Difficulties with Insanity Legislating Pi Linear Programming, Conspiracy Involving Magic Squares Mail, Crank Megalomania Money to be Made in Mathematics, Lack of Nines, Casting Out Nonagons, Regular Notation, Nonstandard Number Theory, The Lure of Perfect Numbers Phi Prayer, Matrix Primes, The Secret of the Primes, Twin, Existence of Infinitely Many Prolificity, Crank's Puzzle, A Pythagoreans, Neo- Pythagoreans, The Mystery of the Quadrature of the Circle Set Theory Signs, The Rule of Solution to a Puzzle

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-361) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society. 2019

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Dudley, Underwood. Mathematical cranks /

ISBN:

9781470451707 (online)

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Restricted for use by site license.