Fantasia Mathematica
Book Details
Publisher
Copernicus
ISBN / ASIN
0387949313
ISBN-13
9780387949314
Availability
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Sales Rank
#189,242
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
Clifton Fadiman's classic collection of mathematical stories, essays and anecdotes is now once again available. Ranging from the poignant to the comical via the simply surreal, these selections include writing by Aldous Huxley, Martin Gardner, H.G. Wells, George Gamow, G.H. Hardy, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and many others. Humorous, mysterious, and always entertaining, this collection is sure to bring a smile to the faces of mathematicians and non-mathematicians alike.
