Book:Lilian R. Lieber/Modern Mathematics for T. C. Mits

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Lilian R. Lieber: Modern Mathematics for T. C. Mits The Celebrated Man in the Street

Published $\text {1946}$, George Allen & Unwin Ltd


Subject Matter


Contents

Preface
Introducing The Hero - T. C. Mits
Part I - THE OLD
Fifty Million People Can Be Wrong
Don't Hit the Ceiling
Tissue-Paper Thinking
Generalization
Our Totem Pole
The Totem Pole (Cont.)
Abstraction
"Define Your Terms"
A Wedding
The Offspring
A Summary of Part I
Part II - THE NEW
A New Education
Common Sense
Freedom and License
Pride and Prejudice
Twice Two is NOT Four!
Abstraction - Modern Style
The Fourth Dimension
Preparedness
These Moderns
THE MORAL