Mathematics : / an introduction to its spirit and use James R. Newman ... (et al) ; with introduction by - 249 paginas. : il. ; 26 cm. - Scientific american .
History -- The rhind papyrus / James R. Newman -- Review of Cardano, the gambling scholar by ore / James R. Newman -- Review of blaise Pascal : the life and work of a realist by Mortimer / James R. Newman -- Descartes / A. C. Crombie -- Review of the mathematical papers of Isaac Newton, volume I : 1664-1666, edited by Whiteside / Bernard Cohen -- Leibniz / Frederick C. Kreiling -- The invention of analityc geometry / Carl B. Boyer -- Number and algebra -- The remarkable of the prime numbers / Martin Gardner -- Mathematical sieves / David Hawkins -- A short treatise on the useless elegance of perfect numbers and amicable pairs / Martin Gadner -- The hierarchy of infinities and the problems it spawns / Martin gadner -- Geometry -- Geometric constructions with a compass and a straightedge and also with a compass alone / Martin Gadner -- Diversions that involve one of the classic conic sections : the elipse / Martin Gadner -- Projective geometry / Morris Kline -- Topological diverstions, including a bottle with no inside or outside / Martin Gadner -- Statistics and probability -- What is probability? / Rudolf Carnap -- On the fabric of inductive logic, and some probability paradoxes / Martin Gadner -- Symbolic logic and computers Boolean algebra, venn diagrams and the propositional calculus / Martin Gadner -- Computer logic and memory / David Evans -- Applications --
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