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 ...
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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 unique book. It is written with wit and style and is a part of folk mathematics.
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Add this copy of Mathematical Cranks (Spectrum) to cart. $80.18, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by American Mathematical Society.
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Add this copy of Mathematical Cranks (Spectrum Series) to cart. $73.22, good condition, Sold by Literary Cat Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Machynlleth, Powys, WALES, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1992 by The Mathematical Association of America.
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Very Good- 0883855070. Former owner's name on verso front cover. Some pages with neat mathematical annotations in pencil. Bottom spine a little creased. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners.; Spectrum; Octavo; x, 372 pages.
