Littlewood's Miscellany / Edition 1

by Béla Bollobás

Overview

Academic life in Cambridge especially in Trinity College is viewed through the eyes of one of its greatest figures. Most of Professor Littlewood's earlier work is presented along with a wealth of new material.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521337021
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/30/1986
Edition description:	Rev. ed
Pages:	212
Sales rank:	736,547
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.47(d)

Table of Contents

Frontispiece; Preface; Foreword; 1. Introduction to A Mathematician's Miscellany; 2. Mathematics with minimum 'Raw Material'; 3. From the mathematical tripos; 4. Cross-purposes, unconscious assumptions, howlers, misprints, etc; 5. The zoo; 6. Ballistics; 7. The dilemma of probability theory; 8. From Fermat's last theorem to the abolition of capital punishment; 9. A mathematical education; 10. Review of Ramanujan's collected papers; 11. Large numbers; 12. Lion and man; 13. People; 14. Academic life; 15. Odds and ends; 16. Newton and the attraction of a sphere; 17. The discovery of Neptune; 18. The Adams-Airy affair; 19. The mathematician's art of work.

Editorial Reviews

"Every line will delight lovers of mathematics, but even readers who have never had a mathematical thought will—if they love evidence of humane intelligence and wise wit—find here much to savor. A very special classic." SciTech Book News

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