Synopses & Reviews
For many years, famed mathematics historian and master teacher Howard Eves collected stories and anecdotes about mathematics and mathematicians, gathering them together in six Mathematical Circles books. Thousands of teachers of mathematics have read these stories and anecdotes for their own enjoyment and used them in the classroom - to add entertainment, to introduce a human element, to inspire the student, and to forge some links of cultural history. All six of the Mathematical Circles books have been reissued as a three-volume edition. This three-volume set is a must for all who enjoy the mathematical enterprise, especially those who appreciate the human and cultural aspects of mathematics.
Synopsis
Volume 2 of 3 collection of mathematical stories and anecdotes about mathematics and mathematicians.
About the Author
Howard Eves spent most of his teaching career at the University of Maine at Orono, and more recently at Central Florida University. For 25 years, he edited the Elementary Problems Section of the American Mathematical Monthly. His books include: Great Moments in Mathematics Before 1650, Mathematical Reminiscences, Introduction to the History of Mathematics, and his two-volume Survey of Geometry.
Table of Contents
Quadrant I. Numbers and numerals; Big numbers; Pi; Gematria; Counting boards; Tally sticks; Computers; Weights and measures; Quadrant II. Symbols and terminology; Arithmetic and algebra; Geometry; Trigonometry; Probability and statistics; Logic; Topology; Quadrant III. From the younger set; Classroom tactics and antics; Mathematicicans and mathematics; Women of mathematics; Wherein the author is involved; Nicolas Bourbaki; Archimedes to Sidney Cabin; Quadrant IV. Cauchy to Coolidge; Dedekind to Gerbert; Hamilton and Hardy; Heilbronn to Hurwitz; Kasner to Lawrence; Miller to Newton; Peano to Swift; Sylvester to Whitehead; Norbert Wiener. Quadrant I. Numbers and number reckoning; Magic squares; Mathematically motivated designs; Geometry; Quadrant II. From the American scene; Among the English; Irishmen; Two Scotsmen; The last universalist; Croutons for the French soup; Quadrant III. Two Norwegians and a Russian; The prince of mathematicians; The great Göttingen professors; The master; Quadrant IV. Further Göttingen mathematicians; More German mathematicians; Olla-Podrida; Printers and books; Psychology; Addenda. Esthetics.