Mathematical Cranks
Download or Read eBook Mathematical Cranks PDF written by Underwood Dudley and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Underwood Dudley |
| Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2019-07-11 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781470451707 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1470451700 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Mathematical Cranks by : Underwood Dudley
Book excerpt: A delightful collection of articles about people who claim they have achieved the mathematically impossible (squaring the circle, duplicating the cube); people who think they have done something they have not (proving Fermat's Last Theorem); people who pray in matrices; people who find the American Revolution ruled by the number 57; people who have in common eccentric mathematical views, some mild (thinking we should count by 12s instead of 10s), some bizarre (thinking that second-order differential equations will solve all problems of economics, politics and philosophy). This is a truly uniqu.
