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ZIN Product Number: 10520919
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 151 pages
Publisher: Wide World Publishing/Tetra
ISBN: 188455010X
Release Date: Jan 7, 2002
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 3 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Why isn't there a Nobel Prize in Mathematics? Why was the first woman mathematician murdered? Was Einstein's first wife the real brains behind his theory? In this highly readable volume of vignettes, coupled with factual background, Pappas has assembled fascinating stories of intrigue and the bizarre - in short, the human background of the history of mathematics.
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Behind the arcane realm of mathematical numbers, equations, and solutions lies the sometimes sordid world of real people, whose rivalries and deceptions are at odds with the mathematician's reputation for clear thinking and scientific detachment. In this highly readable volume, Pappas livens up the world of mathematics with 29 fascinating stories about its little-known scandals. 20 photos. 30 illustrations. 192 pp.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 3 Average Rating:
poor continution and development of plot
-- Jon Phileep, a chemistry professor from Ohio, January 3, 2001
Also Recommended: black sheep wall
OK at an introductory level, but tighten up the spelling!
-- Rob, an architect., October 18, 2001
Also Recommended: Mathematical Mysteries, The Mathematical Universe, Fermat's Enigma
Thoroughly entertaining!
-- Sarah, programmer from San Mateo, November 27, 2000
| |  | | | | Introduction | | | The irrational number cover-up | 1 | | Ada Byron Lovelace's addiction | 7 | | Exposing L'Hospital's claim to fame | 16 | | Whose solids are they anyway? | 22 | | The paranoia of Kurt Godel | 26 | | Newton's apple never was | 35 | | Mathematical "Brooklyn Bridge" | 39 | | Christians murder Hypatia | 44 | | Cantor driven to nervous breakdown | 50 | | The mathematician who pleaded insanity | 59 | | The scandalous treatment of Alan Turing | 63 | | Fourier cooks his own goose | 68 | | The secret work of Carl Gauss | 73 | | Female mathematician crashes the old boy's club | 80 | | Newton was no sweet cookie | 86 | | Where's the Nobel Prize in mathematics? | 96 | | Was Galois jinxed? | 102 | | I sleep therefore I think | 109 | | The feud over who invented calculus | 115 | | The truth about Einstein & Maric - It's all relative | 121 | | Cardano vs. Tartaglia - Who was maligned? | 131 | | Bibliography | 139 | | Index | 145 | | About the author | 151 |
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Mathematicians, Biography, Mathematicians And Their Works, Mathematics, History & Philosophy, Biography, Mathematicians
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