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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"A wealth of numbers [[electronic resource] ] : an anthology of 500 years of popular mathematics writing / / [edited by] Benjamin Wardhaugh"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-280-49430-1"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786613589538"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-4008-4198-4"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[Course Book]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (389 p.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"500.9"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Mathematics"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Mathematics - Popular works - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 \"\"Sports and Pastimes, Done by Number\"\": Mathematical Tricks, Mathematical Games; The Well Spring of Sciences: Humfrey Baker, 1564; Mathematical Recreations: Henry van Etten, 1633; \"\"How Prodigiously Numbers Do Increase\"\": William Leybourne, 1667; Profitable and Delightful Problems: Jacques Ozanam, 1708; Lotteries and Mountebanks: L. Despiau, 1801; Dodging the Mastodon and the Plesiosaurus: Henry Ernest Dudeney, 1917; \"\"Plenty of Interesting Things to Be Discovered\"\": NRICH, 1998-2004; 2 \"\"Much Necessary for All States of Men\"\": From Arithmetic to Algebra"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Addition and Subtraction: Robert Recorde, 1543Multiplication and Division: Thomas Masterson, 1592; Reducing Fractions: John Tapp, 1621; Decimal Fractions: Edward Hatton, 1695; Extracting Square Roots: William Banson, 1760; The Rule of Three: Wardhaugh Thompson, 1771; The Rule of Three, in Verse: Nathan Withy, 1792; \"\"The First Analysts\"\": Joseph Fenn, 1775; Quadratic Equations: The Popular Educator, 1855; Cubic Equations for the Practical Man: J. E. Thompson, 1931; 3 \"\"A Goodly Struggle\"\": Problems, Puzzles, and Challenges; The Ladies' Diary: 1798; The Girl's Own Book: Lydia Marie Child, 1835"]
[{"$nulls":4},"The Boy's Own Magazine: 1855\"\"The Analyst\"\": 1874; Can You Solve It?: Arthur Hirschberg, 1926; Mathematical Challenges: 1989; 4 \"\"Drawyng, Measuring and Proporcion\"\": Geometry and Trigonometry; Points and "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Lines: Robert Recorde, 1551; Squares and Triangles: Thomas Rudd, 1650; Pythagoras's Theorem: Edmund Scarburgh, 1705; Trigonometrical Definitions: Edward Wells, 1714; The Resolution of Triangles: Hugh Worthington, 1780; Introduction to Spherical Geometry: Horatio Nelson Robinson, 1854; Napier's Rules: Alan Clive Gardner, 1956"]
[{"$nulls":4},"5 Maps, Monsters, and Riddles: The Worlds of Mathematical PopularizationThe Athenian Mercury: 1691-1697; Newton for the Ladies: Francesco Algarotti, 1739; Maps and Mazes: W. W. Rouse Ball, 1892; \"\"Einstein's Real Achievement\"\": Oliver Lodge, 1921; Riddles in Mathematics: Eugene P. Northrop, 1945; Fermat's Last Theorem: Hans Rademacher and Otto Toeplitz, 1957; Where Does It End?: Dan Pedoe, 1958; Yamátárájabhánasalagám: Sherman K. Stein, 1963; Saddles and Soap Bubbles: Iakov Isaevich Khurgin, 1974; \"\"The Monster\"\" Unveiled: The Times, 1980"]
[{"$nulls":4},"6 \"\"To Ease and Expedite the Work\"\": Mathematical Instruments and How to Use Them\"\"Cards for the Sea\"\": Martín Cortés, 1561; Making a Horizontal Sundial: Thomas Fale, 1593; Speaking-Rods: Seth Partridge, 1648; Telescopes Refracting and Reflecting: The Juvenile Encyclopedia, 1800-1801; Scales Simple and Diagonal: J. F. Heather, 1888; Making a Star Clock: Roy Worvill, 1974; PC Astronomy: Peter Duffet-Smith, 1997; 7 \"\"How Fine a Mind\"\": Mathematicians Past; The Labyrinth and Abyss of Infinity: Voltaire, 1733; \"\"It Must Have Commenced with Mankind\"\": Charles Hutton, 1796"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Kepler's Astronomical Publications: Robert Small, 1804"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Despite what we may sometimes imagine, popular mathematics writing didn't begin with Martin Gardner. In fact, it has a rich tradition stretching back hundreds of years. This entertaining and enlightening anthology--the first of its kind--gathers nearly one hundred fascinating selections from the past 500 years of popular math writing, bringing to life a little-known side of math history. Ranging from the late fifteenth to the late twentieth century, and drawing from books, newspapers, magazines, and websites, A Wealth of Numbers includes recreational, classroom, and work mathematics;"]