Book:Clifford A. Pickover/A Passion for Mathematics

Subtitled: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality

Subject Matter
From the back cover: "A smorgasbord of math puzzles, factoids, quotations, trivia, formulas and much more".

Contents

 * Acknowledgments


 * Introduction


 * 1. Numbers, History, Society, and People
 * 2. Cool Numbers
 * 3. Algebra, Percentages, Weird Puzzles, and Marvelous Mathematical Manipulations
 * 4. Geometry, Games, and Beyond
 * 5. Probability: Take Your Chances
 * 6. Big Numbers and Infinity
 * 7. Mathematics and Beauty


 * Answers


 * References


 * Index

Critical View
A lot of the material in here has been previously published in earlier works by this author. There is little in here which is new.