A wealth of numbers: an anthology of 500 years of popular mathematics writing
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Contents
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Preface xiii
1 Sports and Pastimes, Done by Number : Mathematical Tricks,
Mathematical Games 1
The Well Spring of Sciences
Humfrey Baker, 1564 2
Mathematical Recreations
Henry van Etten, 1633 4
How Prodigiously Numbers Do Increase
William Leybourne, 1667 9
Profitable and Delightful Problems
Jacques Ozanam, 1708 15
Lotteries and Mountebanks
L. Despiau, 1801 17
Dodging the Mastodon and the Plesiosaurus
Henry Ernest Dudeney, 1917 20
Plenty of Interesting Things to Be Discovered
NRICH, 1998-2004 27
2 Much Necessary for All States of Men : From
Arithmetic to Algebra 32
Addition and Subtraction
Robert Recorde, 1543 33
Multiplication and Division
Thomas Masterson, 1592 38
Reducing Fractions
John Tapp, 1621 41
i CONTENTS
Decimal Fractions
Edward Hatton, 1695 44
Extracting Square Roots
William Banson, 1760 46
The Ruleof Three
Wardhaugh Thompson, 1771 48
The Rule of Three, in Verse
Nathan Withy, 1792 50
The First Analysts
Joseph Fenn, 1775 52
Quadratic Equations
The Populär Educator, 1855 54
Cubic Equations for the Practical Man
/. E. Thompson, 1931 56
3 A Goodly Struggle : Problems, Puzzles, and Challenges 62
The Ladies Diary
1798 63
The Girl s Own Book
Lydia Marie Child, 1835 69
The Boy s Own Magazine
1855 71
The Analyst
1874 72
Can You Solve It?
Arthur Hirschberg 1926 74
Mathematical Challenges
1989 77
4 Drawyng, Measuring and Proporcion : Geometry and
Trigonometry 84
Points and Lines
Robert Recorde, 1551 85
CONTENTS vii
Squares and Triangles
Thomas Rudd, 1650 87
Pythagoras s Theorem
Edmund Scarburgh, 1705 91
Trigonometrical Definitions
Edward Wells, 1714 94
The Resolution of Triangles
Hugh Worthington, 1780 97
Introduction to Spherical Geometry
Horatio Nelson Robinson, 1854 99
Napier s Rules
Alan Clive Gardner, 1956 103
5 Maps, Monsters, and Riddles: The Worlds of
Mathematical Popularization 108
The Athenian Mercury
1691-1697 109
Newton for the Ladies
Francesco Algarotti, 1739 113
Maps and Mazes
W. W. Rouse Ball, 1892 116
Einstein s Real Achievement
Oliver Lodge, 1921 120
Riddles in Mathematics
Eugene P. Northrop, 1945 123
Fermat s Last Theorem
Hans Rademacher and Otto Toeplitz, 1957 127
Where Does It End?
Dan Pedoe, 1958 133
Yamätarajabhanasalagam
Sherman K. Stein, 1963 139
Saddles and Soap Bubbles
Iakov Isaevich Khurgin, 1974 144
iii CONTENTS
The Monster Unveiled
The Times, 1980 150
6 To Ease and Expedite the Work : Mathematical Instruments
and How to Use Them 152
Cards for the Sea
Martin Cortes, 1561 153
Making a Horizontal Sundial
Thomas Fale, 1593 155
Speaking-Rods
Seth Partridge, 1648 157
Telescopes Refracting and Reflecting
The Juvenile Encyclopedia, 1800-1801 161
Scales Simple and Diagonal
/. F. Heather, 1888 164
Making a Star Clock
Roy Worvill, 1974 168
PC Astronomy
Perer Duffet-Smith, 1997 172
7 How Fine a Mind : Mathematicians Past 176
The Labyrinth and Abyss of Infinity
Voltaire, 1733 177
It Must Have Commenced with Mankind
Charles Hutton, 1796 179
Kepler s Astronomical Publications
Robert Small, 1804 182
Isaac Newton, a Good and Great Man
Anonymous, 1860 185
CONTENTS ix
Pythagoras and His Theorem
Thomas L. Heath, 1908 188
Seki Köwa
David Eugene Smith and Yoshio Mikami, 1914 190
Her Absolute, Incomparable Uniqueness
B. L. van der Waerden, 1935 198
One of Your Calculating Fits
George Bernard Shaw, 1939 200
Analysis Incarnate
Carl Boyer, 1968 204
Hardy and Littlewood Rummage
Robert Kanigel, 1991 210
8 By Piain and Practical Rules : Mathematics at Work 216
High Marshai and Camp Master
Leonard Digges, 1579 217
The Practical Gauger
William Hunt, 1673 220
Geodaesia
John Love, 1688 224
Piain Sailing
Archibald Patoun, 1762 227
High-Pressure Engines
William Templeton, 1833 230
The Strength of Materials
Lucius D.Gould, 1853 233
Plumbing and Hydraulics
William H. Dooley, 1920 237
Automobiles and Printing
Samuel Slade and Louis Margolis, 1941 241
9 The Speedier Expedition of Their Learning : Thoughts on
Teaching and Learning Mathematics 245
x CONTENTS
To Have Their Children or Servants Instructed
Humfrey Baker, 1590 246
Euclid with Algebra
Isaac Barrow, 1660 247
The Idea of Velocity
Leonhard Euler, 1760 250
Mathematical Toys
Mrs Lovechild, 1785 252
A Mother Explains Comets
Catherine Vale Whitwell, 1823 255
Geometry without Axioms
Thomas Perronet Thompson, 1833 259
The Game of Logic
Lewis Carroll, 1887 261
Higher Mathematics for Women
Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, 1912 266
A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
George Pölya, 1945 270
New Math for Parents
Evelyn Sharp, 1966 274
Merely a Formal Statement ofthe Way We Think
Robert E. Eicholz and Phares G. O Daffer, 1964 277
Turtle Fun
Serafim Gascoigne, 1985 282
10 So Fundamentally Useful a Science : Reflections on
Mathematics and Its Place in the World 290
The Myrrour ofthe Worlde
Gossuin ofMetz, 1481 291
A Very Fruitfull Praeface
John Dee, 1570 293
Geometry Is Improving Daily
Joseph Glanvill, 1664 296
CONTENTS xi
The Fifth Element
Edmund Scarburgh, 1705 300
Of Mathematics in General
Richard Sault, 1710 302
Lineal Arithmetic
William Playfair, 1798 304
Astronomy in New South Wales
Charles Stargard Rumker, 1825 307
The Advantages of Mathematics
William Barnes, 1834 309
Sylvester Contra Huxley
J. J. Sylvester, 1870 314
What a Mathematical Proposition Is
Cassius Jackson Keyser, 1929 315
The Character of Physical Law
Richard P. Feynman, 1965 318
Our Invisible Culture
Allen L. Hammond, 1978 322
11 The Mathematicians Who Never Were: Fiction and Humor 326
Spider-Men and Lice-Men
Margaret Cavendish, 1666 327
In the Court of Lilliput
Captain Gulliver, 1727 332
Automathes
John Kirkby, 1745 335
The Loves ofthe Triangles
John Frere, 1798 340
Master Senex the Astronomer
William Combe, 1815 343
An Ode to the Mathematics
Alfred Domett, 1833 346
CONTENTS
Some Veritable Urania
Augusta Jane Evans, 1864 347
Fun
1863, 1870 352
A Sight of Thine Interior
Edwin A. Abbott, 1884 354
Scenes in the Life of Pythagoras
Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, 1953 359
Bao Suyo
Kim Stanley Robinson, 1996 360
Index 367
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