The World of Mathematics, Vol. IV

James R. Newman

Publisher:

Dover Publications

Publication Date:

2000

Number of Pages:

464

Format:

Paperback

Price:

17.95

ISBN:

0486411524

Category:

General

BLL Rating:

BLL*

The Basic Library List Committee recommends this book for acquisition by undergraduate mathematics libraries.

MAA Review
Table of Contents

[Reviewed by

Basic Library List Committee

, on

01/19/2009

]

PART XVIII: The Mathematician
		G.H. Hardy: Commentary
		1.	A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. HARDY
		The Elusiveness of Invention: Commentary
		2	Mathematical Creation by HENRI POINCARÉ
		The Use of a Top Hat as a Water Bucket: Commentary
		3	The Mathematician by John Von Neumann
	PART XIX: Mathematical Machines: Can a Machine Think?
		Automatic Computers: Commentary
		1.	The General and Logical Theory of Automata by JOHN VON NEUMANN
		2.	Can a Machine Think? By A. M. Turing
		3.	A Chess-Playing Machine by CLAUDE SHANNON
	PART XX: Mathematics in Warfare
		Frederick William Lanchester: Commentary
		1.	Mathematics in Warfare by FREDERICK WILLIAM LANCHESTER
		Operations Research: Commentary
		2.	How to Hunt a Submarine by PHILLIP M. MORSE and GEORGE E. KIMBALL
	PART XXI: A Mathematical Theory of Art
		George David Birkhoff: Commentary
		1.	Mathematics of Aesthetics by GEORGE DAVID BIRKHOFF
	PART XXII: Mathematics of the Good
	1.	A Mathematical approach to Ethics by GEORGE DAVID BIRKHOFF
	PART XXIII: Mathematics in Literature
		The Island of Laputa: Commentary
		1.	Cycloid Pudding by JOHNATHAN SWIFT
		Aldous Huxley: Commentary
		2.	Young Archimedes by ALDOUS HUXLEY
		Mr. Fortune: Commentary
		3.	Geometry in the South Pacific by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER
		Statistics as a Literary Stimulus: Commentary
		4.	Inflexible Logic by RUSSELL MALONEY
		5.	The Law by ROBERT M. COATES
	PART XXIV: Mathematics and Music
		Sir James Jeans: Commentary
		1.	Mathematics of Music by SIR JAMES JEANS
	PART XXV: Mathematics as a Culture Clue
		Oswald Spengler: Commentary
		1.	Meaning of Numbers by OSWALD SPENGLER
		2.	The Locus of Mathematical Reality: An Anthropological Footnote by LESLIE A. WHITE
	"PART XXVI: Amusements, Puzzles, Fancies"
		"Augustus De Morgan, and Estimable Man: Commentary"
		1.	Assorted Paradoxes by AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN
		A Romance of Many Dimensions: Commentary
		2.	Flatland by EDWIN A. ABBOTT
		Lewis Carroll: Commentary
		3.	What the Tortoise Said to Achilles and Other Riddles by LEWIS CARROLL
		Continuity: Commentary
		4.	The Lever of Mahomet by RICHARD COURANT and HERBERT ROBBINS
		Games and Puzzles: Commentary
		5.	Pastimes of Past and Present Times by EDWARD KASNER and JANES R. NEWMAN
		6.	Arithmetical Restorations by W. W. ROUSE BALL
		7.	The Seven Seven's by W. E. H. BERWICK
		Thomas John l' Anson Bromwich: Commentary
		8.	Easy Mathematics and Lawn Tennis by T. J. I'A. BROMWICH
		Stephen Butler Leacock: Commentary
		9.	Mathematics for Golfers by STEPHEN LEACOCK
		10.	Common Sense and the Universe by STEPHEN LEACOCK
	INDEX