Book:Clifford A. Pickover/A Passion for Mathematics
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Clifford A. Pickover: A Passion for Mathematics
Published $\text {2006}$, Wiley
- ISBN 0-471-69098-8
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.