PART XVIII: The Mathematician |
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G.H. Hardy: Commentary |
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A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. HARDY |
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The Elusiveness of Invention: Commentary |
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Mathematical Creation by HENRI POINCARÉ |
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The Use of a Top Hat as a Water Bucket: Commentary |
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The Mathematician by John Von Neumann |
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PART XIX: Mathematical Machines: Can a Machine Think? |
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Automatic Computers: Commentary |
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The General and Logical Theory of Automata by JOHN VON NEUMANN |
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Can a Machine Think? By A. M. Turing |
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A Chess-Playing Machine by CLAUDE SHANNON |
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PART XX: Mathematics in Warfare |
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Frederick William Lanchester: Commentary |
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Mathematics in Warfare by FREDERICK WILLIAM LANCHESTER |
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Operations Research: Commentary |
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How to Hunt a Submarine by PHILLIP M. MORSE and GEORGE E. KIMBALL |
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PART XXI: A Mathematical Theory of Art |
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George David Birkhoff: Commentary |
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Mathematics of Aesthetics by GEORGE DAVID BIRKHOFF |
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PART XXII: Mathematics of the Good |
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A Mathematical approach to Ethics by GEORGE DAVID BIRKHOFF |
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PART XXIII: Mathematics in Literature |
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The Island of Laputa: Commentary |
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Cycloid Pudding by JOHNATHAN SWIFT |
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Aldous Huxley: Commentary |
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Young Archimedes by ALDOUS HUXLEY |
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Mr. Fortune: Commentary |
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Geometry in the South Pacific by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER |
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Statistics as a Literary Stimulus: Commentary |
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Inflexible Logic by RUSSELL MALONEY |
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The Law by ROBERT M. COATES |
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PART XXIV: Mathematics and Music |
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Sir James Jeans: Commentary |
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Mathematics of Music by SIR JAMES JEANS |
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PART XXV: Mathematics as a Culture Clue |
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Oswald Spengler: Commentary |
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Meaning of Numbers by OSWALD SPENGLER |
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The Locus of Mathematical Reality: An Anthropological Footnote by LESLIE A. WHITE |
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"PART XXVI: Amusements, Puzzles, Fancies" |
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"Augustus De Morgan, and Estimable Man: Commentary" |
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Assorted Paradoxes by AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN |
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A Romance of Many Dimensions: Commentary |
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Flatland by EDWIN A. ABBOTT |
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Lewis Carroll: Commentary |
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What the Tortoise Said to Achilles and Other Riddles by LEWIS CARROLL |
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Continuity: Commentary |
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The Lever of Mahomet by RICHARD COURANT and HERBERT ROBBINS |
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Games and Puzzles: Commentary |
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Pastimes of Past and Present Times by EDWARD KASNER and JANES R. NEWMAN |
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Arithmetical Restorations by W. W. ROUSE BALL |
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The Seven Seven's by W. E. H. BERWICK |
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Thomas John l' Anson Bromwich: Commentary |
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Easy Mathematics and Lawn Tennis by T. J. I'A. BROMWICH |
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Stephen Butler Leacock: Commentary |
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Mathematics for Golfers by STEPHEN LEACOCK |
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Common Sense and the Universe by STEPHEN LEACOCK |
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INDEX |
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