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9780883855430

Mathematical Circles

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  • ISBN13:

    9780883855430

  • ISBN10:

    0883855437

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-11-01
  • Publisher: Mathematical Assn of Amer
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Summary

For many years, famed mathematics historian and master teacher Howard Eves collected stories and anecdotes about mathematics and mathematicians, gathering them together in six Mathematical Circles books. Thousands of teachers of mathematics have read these stories and anecdotes for their own enjoyment and used them in the classroom - to add entertainment, to introduce a human element, to inspire the student, and to forge some links of cultural history. All six of the Mathematical Circles books have been reissued as a three-volume edition. This three-volume set is a must for all who enjoy the mathematical enterprise, especially those who appreciate the human and cultural aspects of mathematics.

Author Biography

Howard Eves spent most of his teaching career at the University of Maine at Orono, and more recently at Central Florida University. For 25 years, he edited the Elementary Problems Section of the American Mathematical Monthly

Table of Contents

Quadrant I. Numbers and numerals
Big numbers
Pi
Gematria
Counting boards
Tally sticks
Computers
Weights and measures
Quadrant II. Symbols and terminology
Arithmetic and algebra
Geometry
Trigonometry
Probability and statistics
Logic
Topology
Quadrant III. From the younger set
Classroom tactics and antics
Mathematicicans and mathematics
Women of mathematics
Wherein the author is involved
Nicolas Bourbaki
Archimedes to Sidney Cabin
Quadrant IV. Cauchy to Coolidge
Dedekind to Gerbert
Hamilton and Hardy
Heilbronn to Hurwitz
Kasner to Lawrence
Miller to Newton
Peano to Swift
Sylvester to Whitehead
Norbert Wiener. Quadrant I. Numbers and number reckoning
Magic squares
Mathematically motivated designs
Geometry
Quadrant II. From the American scene
Among the English
Irishmen
Two Scotsmen
The last universalist
Croutons for the French soup
Quadrant III. Two Norwegians and a Russian
The prince of mathematicians
The great Gö
ttingen professors
The master
Quadrant IV. Further Gö
ttingen mathematicians
More German mathematicians
Olla-Podrida
Printers and books
Psychology
Addenda. Esthetics.

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