Mathematical CranksCambridge University Press, 1992 - 372 sider 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 unique book. It is written with wit and style and is a part of folk mathematics. |
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Innhold
Introduction | 1 |
Applied Mathematics | 9 |
Base for the Number System The Best | 20 |
Bitterness Cranks | 32 |
Calculus Celestial | 38 |
Congressional Record Mathematics in the | 46 |
Consultation Lack of of Cranks with Experts | 53 |
Crank The Making of a | 67 |
FourColor Theorem The | 159 |
Gödels Theorem | 167 |
Greed | 179 |
Legislating Pi | 192 |
Mail Crank | 205 |
Money to be Made in Mathematics Lack of | 222 |
Notation Nonstandard | 235 |
Prayer Matrix | 251 |
Deduction The Joy of | 78 |
Duplication of the Cube | 86 |
Ellipse Circumference of an | 93 |
Equations Solving | 102 |
Fermats Little Theorem | 135 |
Puzzle A | 269 |
Set Theory | 322 |
Taxonomy Mathematical | 337 |
Notes | 353 |
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