Synopses & Reviews
"Dunham writes for nonspecialists, and they will enjoy his piquant anecdotes and amusing asides -- Booklist
"Artfully, Dunham conducts a tour of the mathematical universe. . . he believes these ideas to be accessible to the audience he wants to reach, and he writes so that they are." -- Nature
"If you want to encourage anyone's interest in math, get them The Mathematical Universe."
* New Scientist
Synopsis
WILLIAM DUNHAM, PhD, (Allentown, Pennsylvania) teaches math at Muhlenberg College. He is the author of Journey Through Genius (Wiley).
Table of Contents
Arithmetic.
Bernoulli Trials.
Circle.
Differential Calculus.
Euler.
Fermat.
Greek Geometry.
Hypotenuse.
Isoperimetric Problem.
Justification.
Knighted Newton.
Lost Leibniz.
Mathematical Personality.
Natural Logarithm.
Origins.
Prime Number Theorem.
Quotient.
Russell's Paradox.
Spherical Surface.
Trisection.
Utility.
Venn Diagram.
Where Are the Women?
X-Y Plane.
Z.
Afterword.
Notes.
Index.