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"Dunham writes for nonspecialists, and they will enjoy his piquant anecdotes and amusing asides -- Booklist "Artfully, Dunham conducts a tour of the mathematical universe... he believes these ideas to be accessible to the audience he wants to reach, and he writes so that they are.

Table of Contents
Arithmetic.

Bernoulli Trials.

Circle.

Differential Calculus.

Euler.

Fermat.

Greek Geometry.

Hypotenuse.

Isoperimetric Problem.

Justification.

Knighted Newton.

Lost Leibniz.

Mathematical Personality.

Natural Logarithm.

Origins.

Prime Number Theorem.

Quotient.

Russell's Paradox.

Spherical Surface.

Trisection.

Utility.

Venn Diagram.

Where Are the Women?

X-Y Plane.

Z.

Afterword.

Notes.

Index.

The Mathematical Universe

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      Published 21 February 1997
      ISBN-13 9780471176619
      978-0471176619
      ISBN-10 0471176613
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      Mathematics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      "Dunham writes for nonspecialists, and they will enjoy his piquant anecdotes and amusing asides -- Booklist "Artfully, Dunham conducts a tour of the mathematical universe... he believes these ideas to be accessible to the audience he wants to reach, and he writes so that they are.

      Table of Contents
      Arithmetic.

      Bernoulli Trials.

      Circle.

      Differential Calculus.

      Euler.

      Fermat.

      Greek Geometry.

      Hypotenuse.

      Isoperimetric Problem.

      Justification.

      Knighted Newton.

      Lost Leibniz.

      Mathematical Personality.

      Natural Logarithm.

      Origins.

      Prime Number Theorem.

      Quotient.

      Russell's Paradox.

      Spherical Surface.

      Trisection.

      Utility.

      Venn Diagram.

      Where Are the Women?

      X-Y Plane.

      Z.

      Afterword.

      Notes.

      Index.

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