Mathematics and the Imagination

1967 edition; 4th printing; original copyright 1940; copyright renewed 1967;This book lures the reader into the realm of higher mathematics where the human mind must transcend "common sense" and intuition. This includes the "Googolplex --- the largest definite number that anyone has yet bothered to conceive of, pi, famous puzzles, paradoxes, "laws" of chance, rubber-sheet geometry and more.