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Fallacies in Mathematics

E. A. Maxwell
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 
1959
Number of Pages: 
96
Format: 
Hardcover
Price: 
35.00
ISBN: 
0521057000
Category: 
General
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The Basic Library List Committee recommends this book for acquisition by undergraduate mathematics libraries.

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 Preface; 1. The mistake, the howler and the fallacy; 2. Four geometrical fallacies enunciated; 3. Digression on elementary geometry; 4. The ‘Isoceles Triangle’ fallacy analysed; 5. The other geometrical fallacies analysed; 6. Some fallacies in algebra and trigonometry; 7. Fallacies in differentiation; 8. Fallacies in integration; 9. Fallacy by the circular points at infinity; 10. Some ‘Limit’ fallacies; 11. Some miscellaneous howlers.