Book:W.W. Sawyer/Mathematician's Delight

W.W. Sawyer: Mathematician's Delight

Published $\text {1943}$, Pelican

Contents

part i The Approach to Mathematics

1. The Dread of Mathematics

2. Geometry -- The Science of Furniture and Walls

3. The Nature of Reasoning

4. The Strategy and Tactics of Study

part ii On Certain Parts of Mathematics

5. Arithmetic

6. How to Forget the Multiplication Table

7. Algebra -- the Shorthand of Mathematics

8. Ways of Growing

9. Graphs, or Thinking in Pictures

10. Differential Calculus -- the Study of Speed

11. From Speed to Curves

12. Other Problems of Calculus

13. Trigonometry, or How to Make Tunnels and Maps

14. On Backgrounds

15. The Square Root of Minus One