Mathematical Cranks

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  • Mathematical Cranks Book Detail

  • Author : Underwood Dudley
  • Release Date : 2019-07-11
  • Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
  • Genre : Mathematics
  • Pages : 372
  • ISBN 13 : 1470451700
  • File Size : 58,58 MB

Mathematical Cranks by Underwood Dudley PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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