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| Physical Description: | IX, 188 Seiten Ill., graph. Darst. |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Foreword vii
Introduction ix
1. The Problem That Saved a Man s Life 1
2. The Code of the Primes 7
3. Pompeiu s Magic Seven 14
4. What Is an Abstraction? 20
5. Postulates—The Bylaws of Mathematics 27
6. The Logical Lie Detector 33
7. Number 40
8. The Philadelphia Story 63
9. Poinsot s Points and Lines 65
10. Chaos and Polygons 71
11. Numbers, Point and Counterpoint 79
12. The Mathematical Beauty Contest 88
13. The House That Geometry Built 94
14. Explorers of the Nth Dimension 101
15. The Band-Aid Principle 108
16. The Spider and the Fly 117
17. A Walk in the Neighborhood 123
18. Division in the Cellar 131
19. The Art of Squeezing 137
20. The Business of Inequalities 144
21. The Abacus and the Slipstick 752
22. Of Maps and Mathematics 159
23. Mr. Milton, Mr. Bradley—Meet Andrey
Andreyevich Markov 164
24. 3.1416 and All That 172
Bibliography 177
Ancient and Honorable Society of Pi
Watchers:
1984 Report 177
Bibliography 181
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