Ebook: 3.1416 And All That

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages iii-ix
The Problem That Saved a Man’s Life....Pages 1-6
The Code of the Primes....Pages 7-13
Pompeiu’s Magic Seven....Pages 14-19
What is an Abstraction?....Pages 20-26
Postulates—The Bylaws of Mathematics....Pages 27-32
The Logical Lie Detector....Pages 33-39
Number....Pages 40-62
The Philadelphia Story....Pages 63-64
Poinsot’s Points and Lines....Pages 65-70
Chaos and Polygons....Pages 71-78
Numbers, Point and Counterpoint....Pages 79-87
The Mathematical Beauty Contest....Pages 88-93
The House That Geometry Built....Pages 94-100
Explorers of the Nth Dimension....Pages 101-107
The Band-Aid Principle....Pages 108-116
The Spider and the Fly....Pages 117-122
A Walk in the Neighborhood....Pages 123-130
Division in the Cellar....Pages 131-136
The Art of Squeezing....Pages 137-143
The Business of Inequalities....Pages 144-151
The Abacus and the Slipstick....Pages 152-158
Of Maps and Mathematics....Pages 159-163
“Mr. Milton, Mr. Bradley—Meet Andrey Andreyevich Markov”....Pages 164-171
3.1416 and All That....Pages 172-176
Back Matter....Pages 177-188

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages iii-ix
The Problem That Saved a Man’s Life....Pages 1-6
The Code of the Primes....Pages 7-13
Pompeiu’s Magic Seven....Pages 14-19
What is an Abstraction?....Pages 20-26
Postulates—The Bylaws of Mathematics....Pages 27-32
The Logical Lie Detector....Pages 33-39
Number....Pages 40-62
The Philadelphia Story....Pages 63-64
Poinsot’s Points and Lines....Pages 65-70
Chaos and Polygons....Pages 71-78
Numbers, Point and Counterpoint....Pages 79-87
The Mathematical Beauty Contest....Pages 88-93
The House That Geometry Built....Pages 94-100
Explorers of the Nth Dimension....Pages 101-107
The Band-Aid Principle....Pages 108-116
The Spider and the Fly....Pages 117-122
A Walk in the Neighborhood....Pages 123-130
Division in the Cellar....Pages 131-136
The Art of Squeezing....Pages 137-143
The Business of Inequalities....Pages 144-151
The Abacus and the Slipstick....Pages 152-158
Of Maps and Mathematics....Pages 159-163
“Mr. Milton, Mr. Bradley—Meet Andrey Andreyevich Markov”....Pages 164-171
3.1416 and All That....Pages 172-176
Back Matter....Pages 177-188
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