Book:Ian Stewart/The Problems of Mathematics

Subject Matter

 * History of Mathematics
 * Philosophy of Mathematics

Contents

 * Foreword


 * List of Figures
 * Interview with a mathematician


 * 1 The nature of mathematics
 * 2 The price of primality
 * 3 Marginal interest
 * 4 The neglected book of Euclid
 * 5 Parallel thinking
 * 6 The miraculous jar
 * 7 Ghosts of departed quantities
 * 8 The duellist and the monster
 * 9 Much ado about knotting
 * 10 The purple wallflower
 * 11 Squarerooting the unsquarerootable
 * 12 Strumpet fortune
 * 13 The mathematics of nature
 * 14 Oh! Catastrophe!
 * 15 The patterns of chaos
 * 16 The two-and-a-halfth dimension
 * 17 The lonely wave
 * 18 Dixit Algorizmi
 * 19 The limits of computability
 * 20 A tour of the minefield


 * Further Reading
 * Index