Book:Edward Kasner/Mathematics and the Imagination

Edward Kasner and James R. Newman: Mathematics and the Imagination

Published $\text {1940}$, Simon and Schuster

Subject Matter

• Mathematics
• Philosophy

Contents

Introduction

I. NEW NAMES FOR OLD

II. BEYOND THE GOOGOL

III. $\pi, i, e$ (PIE)

IV. ASSORTED GEOMETRIES—PLANE AND FANCY

V. PASTIMES OF PAST AND PRESENT TIMES

VI. PARADOX LOST AND PARADOX REGAINED

VII. CHANCE AND CHANCEABILITY

VIII. RUBBER-SHEET GEOMETRY

IX. CHANGE AND CHANGEABILITY

EPILOGUE. MATHEMATICS AND THE IMAGINATION

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