Mathematical Circles
Mathematical Circles
For many years, famed mathematics historian and master teacher Howard Eves collected stories and anecdotes about mathematics and mathematicians, gathering them together in six Mathematical Circles books. Thousands of teachers of mathematics have read these stories and anecdotes for their own enjoyment and used them in the classroom - to add entertainment, to introduce a human element, to inspire the student, and to forge some links of cultural history. All six of the Mathematical Circles books have been reissued as a three-volume edition. This three-volume set is a must for all who enjoy the mathematical enterprise, especially those who appreciate the human and cultural aspects of mathematics.
- A collection of mathematical stories and anecdotes by an experienced and famous author
- Ideal as either a recreational maths book or as a useful teaching aid
- The last of a three-part reissued set of books
Reviews & endorsements
'The 360 different anecdotes compiled in these delightful volumes will add zest to every teacher's mathematical classes. There are appropriate selections for all levels of students. They are short, succinct, and at the same time given in simple settings which enable the reader to identify with the story and its implications. Here is presented the kind of material that makes the difference to the undecided student. I highly recommend you putting a copy next to your worktable.' The Mathematics Teacher
Product details
No date availableHardback
9780883855447
396 pages
237 × 26 × 160 mm
0.679kg
74 b/w illus.
Table of Contents
- Quadrant I. Mathematics in early America
- Pierre de Fermat and René Descartes
- Some pre-nineteenth-century mathematicians
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Schellbach and Grassmann
- Seven mathematicians and a poet
- Charles Hermite
- Lewis Carroll
- Quadrant II. A melange
- Albert Einstein
- L. J. Mordell
- From our own times
- On mathematics and mathematicians
- Professors, teachers and students
- Lectures
- Quadrant III. Authors and books
- Definitions
- Logic
- On mathematics and logic
- Counting
- Numbers
- Logarithms
- Arithmetic
- Quadrant IV. Computers
- Mnemonics
- The number thirteen
- Mersenne numbers
- Business mathematics
- Probability and statistics
- Algebra
- Geometry
- Recreational matters
- A concluding miscellany
- L'Envoi: Geometrical Illusions. Areal deceptions
- Linear deceptions
- Deformations. Quadrant I. Concerning some men of mathematics
- Albert Einstein
- Einstein's theory of relativity
- Einstein and children
- Humor
- Einstein quotes and comments
- Lobachevski and János Bolyai
- Quadrant II. Julian Lowell Coolidge
- Some more stories about men of mathematics
- Some literary snips and bits
- Sherlockiana
- Poetry, rhymes, and jingles
- Computers and calculators
- Algebra
- Quadrant III. Geometry
- Numbers
- Probability and statistics
- Flawed problems
- Quadrant IV. Recreation corner
- Have you heard?
- Mr. Palindrome
- Examples of recreational mathematics by the master
- Miscellanea
- Epilogue.
