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This book, which includes most of the earlier work as well as much of the material Professor Littlewood collected after the publication of A Mathematician's Miscellany, allows us to see academic life in Cambridge, especially in Trinity College, through the eyes of one of its greatest figures.The general reader should, in most instances, have not trouble following the mathematical passages.
This book, which includes most of the earlier work as well as much of the material Professor Littlewood collected after the publication of A Mathematician's Miscellany, allows us to see academic life in Cambridge, especially in Trinity College, through the eyes of one of its greatest figures.The general reader should, in most instances, have not trouble following the mathematical passages.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Frontispiece; Preface; Foreword; 1. Introduction to A Mathematician's Miscellany; 2. Mathematics with minimum 'Raw Material'; 3. From the mathematical tripos; 4. Cross-purposes, unconscious assumptions, howlers, misprints, etc; 5. The zoo; 6. Ballistics; 7. The dilemma of probability theory; 8. From Fermat's last theorem to the abolition of capital punishment; 9. A mathematical education; 10. Review of Ramanujan's collected papers; 11. Large numbers; 12. Lion and man; 13. People; 14. Academic life; 15. Odds and ends; 16. Newton and the attraction of a sphere; 17. The discovery of Neptune; 18. The Adams-Airy affair; 19. The mathematician's art of work.
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Erscheinungsjahr: | 2004 |
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Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Genre: | Mathematik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Thema: | Lexika |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780521337021 |
ISBN-10: | 052133702X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: |
Bollobas, Bela
Littlewood, John E. |
Redaktion: | Bollobas, Bela |
Hersteller: | Cambridge University Press |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 13 mm |
Von/Mit: | Bela Bollobas (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.05.2004 |
Gewicht: | 0,352 kg |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Frontispiece; Preface; Foreword; 1. Introduction to A Mathematician's Miscellany; 2. Mathematics with minimum 'Raw Material'; 3. From the mathematical tripos; 4. Cross-purposes, unconscious assumptions, howlers, misprints, etc; 5. The zoo; 6. Ballistics; 7. The dilemma of probability theory; 8. From Fermat's last theorem to the abolition of capital punishment; 9. A mathematical education; 10. Review of Ramanujan's collected papers; 11. Large numbers; 12. Lion and man; 13. People; 14. Academic life; 15. Odds and ends; 16. Newton and the attraction of a sphere; 17. The discovery of Neptune; 18. The Adams-Airy affair; 19. The mathematician's art of work.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2004 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Genre: | Mathematik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Thema: | Lexika |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780521337021 |
ISBN-10: | 052133702X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: |
Bollobas, Bela
Littlewood, John E. |
Redaktion: | Bollobas, Bela |
Hersteller: | Cambridge University Press |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 13 mm |
Von/Mit: | Bela Bollobas (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.05.2004 |
Gewicht: | 0,352 kg |
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