ABSTRACT

To understand why mathematics exists and why it is perpetuated one must know something of its history and of the lives and results of famous mathematicians. This three-volume collection of entertaining articles will captivate those with a special interest in mathematics as well as arouse those with even the slightest curiosity about the most sophisticated sciences.

part |2 pages

part one: Historical Sketches

chapter |14 pages

The Japanese Mathematics

chapter |11 pages

The Music of the Spheres

chapter |13 pages

Old Tripos Days at Cambridge

chapter |10 pages

Old Cambridge Days

part |1 pages

part two: Some Mathematical Lives

chapter |11 pages

On the Seashore: Newton

chapter |10 pages

John Edensor Littlewood

chapter |7 pages

Helmut Hasse in 1934

chapter |10 pages

The Legend of John von Neumann

part |2 pages

part three: The Development of Mathematics