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Author Wells, D. G. (David G.)

Title You are a mathematician : a wise and witty introduction to the joy of numbers / David Wells.

Imprint New York : Wiley, [1997?], c1995.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  510 W462y 1997    ---  Available
Description viii, 424 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note "First published in 1995 by Penguin Books U.K."--T.p. verso.
Includes index.
Contents The hidden world of triangles -- Numbers and patterns -- Mathematics as science -- The games of mathemetics -- Creating new mathematical games -- Perception and imagination -- Likeness and analogy -- Certainty, proof and illuminiation -- Mathematics in science: searching for the truth -- Mathematics in science: approximate models -- The enjoyment of mathematics -- A minature world and a long journey -- A mathematical adventure.
Subject Mathematics -- Popular works.
ISBN 0471180777 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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