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The world of mathematics : a small library of the literature of mathematics from Aʻh-mosé the scribe to Albert Einstein / presented with commentaries and notes by James R. Newman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes (xviii, 2535 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon and Schuster, 1956.
- Contents:
- v. 1. Great mathematicians / Herbert Westren Turnbull
- The rhind papyrus / James R. Newman
- Archimedes / Plutarch, Vitruvius, Tzetzes
- Greek mathematics / Ivor Thomas
- Declaration of the profit of arithmeticke / Robert Recorde
- Johann Kepler / Sir Olver Lodge
- Geometry / Rene Descartes
- Isaac Newton / E.N. Da C. Andrade
- Newton, the man / John Maynard Keynes
- The analyst / Bishop Berkeley
- Gauss, the prince of mathematicians / Eric Temple Bell
- Invariant twins, Cayley and Sylvester / Eric Temple Bell
- Srinivasa Ramanujan / James R. Newman
- My mental development / Bertrand Russell
- Mathematics as an element in the history of thought / Alfred North Whitehead
- The sand reckoner / Archimedes
- Counting / Levi Leonard Conant
- From numbers to numerals and from numerals to computation / David Eugene Smith and Jekuthiel Ginsburg
- Calculating prodigies / W.W. Rouse Ball
- The ability of birds to "count" / O. Koehler
- Queen of mathematics / Eric Temple Bell
- On the binomial theorem for fractional and negative exponents / Isaac Newton
- Irrational numbers / Richard Dedekind
- Definition of number / Bertrand Russell
- Exactness of mathematical laws / William Kingdon Clifford
- Postulates of the science of space / William Kingdon Clifford
- On the space theory of matter / William Kingdon Clifford
- The seven bridges of Konigsberg / Leonhard Euler
- Topology / Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins
- Durer as a mathematician / Erwin Panofsky
- Projective geometry / Morris Kline
- On the origin and significance of geometrical axioms / Hermann von Helmholtz
- Symmetry / Hermann Weyl
- v. 2. Mathematics of motion / Galileo Galilei
- Kinetic theory of gases / Daniel Bernoulli
- Longitude / Lloyd A. Brown
- John Couch Adams and the discovery of Neptune / Sir Harold Spencer Jones
- Atomic numbers / H.G.J. Moseley
- Rontgen Rays / Sir William Bragg
- Crystals and the future of physics / Philippe Le Corbeiller
- What is calculus pf variations and what are its applications? / Karl Menger
- The soap-bubble / C. Vernon Boys
- Plateau's problem / Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins
- Periodic law of the chemical elements / Dmitri Mendeleeff
- Mendeleeff / Bernard Jaffe
- Mathematics of heredity / Gregor Mendel
- On being the right size / J.B.S. Haldane
- Heredity and the quantum theory / Erwin Schrodinger
- On magnitude / D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
- The uncertainty principle / Werner Heisenberg
- Causality and wave mechanics / Erwin Schrodinger
- Constants of nature / Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
- New law of gravitation and the old law / Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
- Theory of relativity / Clement V. Durell
- Gustav Theodor Fechner / Edwin G. Boring
- Classification of men according to their natural gifts / Sir Francis Galton
- Mathematics of population and food / Thomas Robert Malthus
- Mathematics of value and demand / Augustin Cournot
- Theory of political economy / William Stanley Jevons
- Mathematics of war and foreign politics / Lewis Fry Richardson
- Statistics of deadly quarrels / Lewis Fry Richardson
- Theory of economic behavior / Leonid Hurwicz
- Theory of games / S. Vajda
- Sociology learns the language of mathematics / Abraham Kaplan
- Concerning probability / Pierre Simon de Laplace
- The red and black / Charles Sanders Peirce
- Application of probability to conduct / John Maynard Keynes
- Chance / Henri Poincare
- Meaning of probability / Ernest Nagel.
- v. 3. Foundations of vital statistics / John Graunt
- First life insurance tables / Edmund Halley
- The law of large numbers / Jacob Bernoulli
- Sampling and standard error / L.C. Tippett
- On the average and scatter / M.J. Moroney
- Mathematics of a lady tasting tea / Sir Ronald A. Fisher
- The vice of gambling and the virtue of insurance / George Bernard Shaw
- The group concept / Cassius J. Keyser
- Theory of groups / Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
- Mathematics and metaphysicians / Bertrand Russell
- Infinity / Hans Hahn
- On the nature of mathematical truth / Carl G. Hempel
- Geometry and empirical science / Carl G. Hempel
- Axiomatic method / Raymond L. Wilder
- Goedel's proof / Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman
- Mathematical science / Oswald Veblen and John Wesley Young
- Mathematics and the world / Douglas Gasking
- Mathematical postulates and human understanding / Richard von Mises
- The study that knows nothing of observation / James Joseph Sylvester
- Essence of mathematics / Charles Sanders Peirce
- Economy of Science / Ernst Mach
- Measurement / Norman Campbell
- Numerical laws / Norman Campbell
- The mathematical way of thinking / Hermann Weyl
- Mathematical analysis of logic / George Boole
- History of symbolic logic / Clarence Irving Lewis and Cooper Harold Langford
- Symbolic notation, Haddock's eyes and the dog-walking ordinance / Ernest Nagel
- Symbolic logic / Alfred Tarski
- Paradise lost and paradise regained / Edward Kasner and James R. Newman
- Crisis in intuition / Hans Hahn
- How to solve it / G. Polya
- New names for old / Edward Kasner and James R. Newman
- Mathematics as an art / John William Navin Sullivan
- v. 4. A mathematician's apology / G.H. Hardy
- Mathematical creation / Henri Poincare
- The mathematician / John von Neumann
- General and logical theory of automata / John von Neumann
- Can a machine think? / A.M. Turing
- A chess-playing machine / Claude Shannon
- Mathematics in warfare / Frederick William Lanchester
- How to hunt a submarine / Phillip M. Morse and George E. Kimball
- Mathematics of aesthetics / George David Birkhoff
- A mathematical approach to ethics / George David Birkhoff
- Cycloid pudding / Jonathan Swift
- Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley
- Geometry in the South Pacific / Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Inflexible logic / Russell Maloney
- The law / Robert M. Coates
- Mathematics of music / Sir James Jeans
- Meaning of numbers / Oswald Spengler
- Locus of mathematical reality: an anthropological footnote / Leslie A. White
- Assorted paradoxes / Augustus de Morgan
- Flatland / Edwin A. Abbott
- What the tortoise says to Achilles and other riddles / Lewis Carroll
- The lever of Mahomet / Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins
- Pastimes of past and present times / Edward Kasner and James R. Neumann
- Arithmetical restorations / W.W. Rouse Ball
- The seven seven's / W.E.H. Berwick
- Easy mathematics and lawn tennis / T.J. I'A. Bromwich
- Mathematics for golfers / Stephen Leacock
- Common sense and the universe / Stephen Leacock.
- Notes:
- "©1956 by James R. Newman."--verso of title page.
- "Composition by Brown Bros. Linotypers, Inc., New York, N.Y. Printed by the Murray Printing Company, Wakefield, Mass. Bound by H. Woolf Book Mfg. Co.,Inc.,New York, N.Y."--verso of title page.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- OCLC:
- 523675
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