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A delightful collection of articles about people who claim they have achieved the mathematically impossible (squaring the circle, duplicating the cube); people who think they have done something they have not (proving Fermat's Last Theorem); people who pray in matrices; people who find the American Revolution ruled by the number 57; people who have in common eccentric mathematical views, some mild (thinking we should count by 12s instead of 10s), some bizarre (thinking that second-order differential equations will solve all problems of economics, politics and philosophy). This is a truly unique book. It is written with wit and style and is a part of folk mathematics.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Mathematics Geometry

• Full title: Mathematical Cranks
• Author: Underwood Dudley
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 383
• EAN: 9780883855072
• ISBN: 0883855070
• ID: 02049877
• Publisher: Mathematical Association of America
• Weight: 54 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 154 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. December 1992

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