3.1416 And All That
Philip J. Davis and
William G. Chinn
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Date: 1985
ISBN: 978-1-4615-8519-0
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Chapters in this book:
- Ch 1 The Problem That Saved a Man’s Life
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 2 The Code of the Primes
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 3 Pompeiu’s Magic Seven
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 4 What is an Abstraction?
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 5 Postulates—The Bylaws of Mathematics
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 6 The Logical Lie Detector
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 7 Number
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 8 The Philadelphia Story
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 9 Poinsot’s Points and Lines
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 10 Chaos and Polygons
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 11 Numbers, Point and Counterpoint
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 12 The Mathematical Beauty Contest
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 13 The House That Geometry Built
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 14 Explorers of the Nth Dimension
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 15 The Band-Aid Principle
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 16 The Spider and the Fly
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 17 A Walk in the Neighborhood
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 18 Division in the Cellar
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 19 The Art of Squeezing
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 20 The Business of Inequalities
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 21 The Abacus and the Slipstick
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 22 Of Maps and Mathematics
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 23 Mr. Milton, Mr. Bradley—Meet Andrey Andreyevich Markov
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
- Ch 24 3.1416 and All That
- Philip J. Davis and William G. Chinn
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