Littlewood's Miscellany
Littlewood's Miscellany
Béla Bollobás
November 1986
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Academic life in Cambridge especially in Trinity College is viewed through the eyes of one of its greatest figures. Most of Professor Littlewood's earlier work is presented along with a wealth of new material.
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"Every line will delight lovers of mathematics, but even readers who have never had a mathematical thought will--if they love evidence of humane intelligence and wise wit--find here much to savor. A very special classic." SciTech Book News
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November 1986Paperback
9780521337021
212 pages
229 × 152 × 12 mm
0.285kg
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Table of Contents
- Frontispiece
- Preface
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction to A Mathematician's Miscellany
- 2. Mathematics with minimum 'Raw Material'
- 3. From the mathematical tripos
- 4. Cross-purposes, unconscious assumptions, howlers, misprints, etc
- 5. The zoo
- 6. Ballistics
- 7. The dilemma of probability theory
- 8. From Fermat's last theorem to the abolition of capital punishment
- 9. A mathematical education
- 10. Review of Ramanujan's collected papers
- 11. Large numbers
- 12. Lion and man
- 13. People
- 14. Academic life
- 15. Odds and ends
- 16. Newton and the attraction of a sphere
- 17. The discovery of Neptune
- 18. The Adams-Airy affair
- 19. The mathematician's art of work.
