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Mathematics and the Imagination
You don't have to love math to enjoy a hand of cards, a night at the casino, or a puzzle. But your pleasure and prowess at games, gambling, and other numerically related pursuits can be heightened with this entertaining volume, in which the authors offer a fascinating view of some of the lesser...
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Mineola, N.Y.
Dover Publications
2001
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Inhoudsopgave:
- I. New names for old
- II. Beyond the googol
- III. [Pi]
- IV. Assorted geometries : plane and fancy
- V. Pastimes of past and present times
- VI. Paradox lost and paradox regained
- VII. Chance and chanceability
- VIII. Rubber-sheet geometry
- IX. Change and changeability
- Epilogue. Mathematics and the imagination.