Mathematics and the Imagination
ISBN-10:
0671208551
ISBN-13:
9780671208554
Author(s): James R. Newman; Edward Kasner
Edition: isbn: 9780671208554 7th printing
Description:
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.
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