| #159560 in Books | 1992-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.75 x5.98l,1.33 | File Name: 0883855070 | 384 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A great, humorous collection of math "crank" stories.|By Bill M.|If you're a scientist or somebody who just likes to surf the internet for articles and forums about science, then you've no doubt run into "cranks". These include people into pseudo-science, conspiracy theorists, and others who keep pushing for crazy ideas that really have no basis in the scientific method. Eve||'A delightful collection of true accounts of individuals who claim to have achieved the mathematically impossible ... It is hard to put down and provides topics for an unending series of interesting discussions. The organization and breadth of the book are im
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 ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Mathematical Cranks (Spectrum) | Underwood Dudley. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
