The World of Mathematics, Vol. 4
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Product details:
- Edition number and title 4
- Publisher Dover Publications Inc.
- Date of Publication 28 March 2003
- ISBN 9780486411521
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 215x136 mm
- Weight 477 g
- Language English 0
Categories
Short description:
Vol. 4 of a monumental 4-volume set covers such topics as mathematical machines, mathematics in warfare, a mathematical theory of art, mathematics of the good, mathematics in literature, mathematics and music, and amusements.
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Vol. 4 of a monumental 4-volume set covers such topics as mathematical machines, mathematics in warfare, a mathematical theory of art, mathematics of the good, mathematics in literature, mathematics and music, and amusements.
Vol. 4 of a monumental 4-volume set covers such topics as mathematical machines, mathematics in warfare, a mathematical theory of art, mathematics of the good, mathematics in literature, mathematics and music, and amusements, puzzles, and fancies. Individual contributions by A. M. Turing, Aldous Huxley, Sir James Jeans, Lewis Carroll, and other notables.
Table of Contents:
VOLUME FOUR
PART XVIII: The Mathematician
G.H. Hardy: Commentary
1. A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. HARDY
The Elusiveness of Invention: Commentary
2 Mathematical Creation by HENRI POINCARÉ
The Use of a Top Hat as a Water Bucket: Commentary
3 The Mathematician by John Von Neumann
PART XIX: Mathematical Machines: Can a Machine Think?
Automatic Computers: Commentary
1. The General and Logical Theory of Automata by JOHN VON NEUMANN
2. Can a Machine Think? By A. M. Turing
3. A Chess
-Playing Machine by CLAUDE SHANNON
PART XX: Mathematics in Warfare
Frederick William Lanchester: Commentary
1. Mathematics in Warfare by FREDERICK WILLIAM LANCHESTER
Operations Research: Commentary
2. How to Hunt a Submarine by PHILLIP M. MORSE and GEORGE E. KIMBALL
PART XXI: A Mathematical Theory of Art
George David Birkhoff: Commentary
1. Mathematics of Aesthetics by GEORGE DAVID BIRKHOFF
PART XXII: Mathematics of the Good
1. A Mathematical approach to Ethics by GEORGE DAVID BIRKHOFF
PART XXIII: Mathematics in Literature
The Island of Laputa: Commentary
1. Cycloid Pudding by JOHNATHAN SWIFT
Aldous Huxley: Commentary
2. Young Archimedes by ALDOUS HUXLEY
Mr. Fortune: Commentary
3. Geometry in the South Pacific by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER
Statistics as a Literary Stimulus: Commentary
4. Inflexible Logic by RUSSELL MALONEY
5. The Law by ROBERT M. COATES
PART XXIV: Mathematics and Music
Sir James Jeans: Commentary
1. Mathematics of Music by SIR JAMES JEANS
PART XXV: Mathematics as a Culture Clue
Oswald Spengler: Commentary
1. Meaning of Numbers by OSWALD SPENGLER
2. The Locus of Mathematical Reality: An Anthropological Footnote by LESLIE A. WHITE
"PART XXVI: Amusements, Puzzles, Fancies"
"Augustus De Morgan, and Estimable Man: Commentary"
1. Assorted Paradoxes by AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN
A Romance of Many Dimensions: Commentary
2. Flatland by EDWIN A. ABBOTT
Lewis Carroll: Commentary
3. What the Tortoise Said to Achilles and Other Riddles by LEWIS CARROLL
Continuity: Commentary
4. The Lever of Mahomet by RICHARD COURANT and HERBERT ROBBINS
Games and Puzzles: Commentary
5. Pastimes of Past and Present Times by EDWARD KASNER and JANES R. NEWMAN
6. Arithmetical Restorations by W. W. ROUSE BALL
7. The Seven Seven's by W. E. H. BERWICK
Thomas John l' Anson Bromwich: Commentary
8. Easy Mathematics and Lawn Tennis by T. J. I'A. BROMWICH
Stephen Butler Leacock: Commentary
9. Mathematics for Golfers by STEPHEN LEACOCK
10. Common Sense and the Universe by STEPHEN LEACOCK
INDEX
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