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- The World of Mathematics
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- Volume II (Parts V-VII) covers mathematics and the physical world, mathematics and social science, and the laws of chance, with non-technical essays by and about scores of eminent mathematicians, economists, scientists, and others. Individual articles on “Mathematics of Motion,” by Galileo Galilei; “Mathematics of Heredity,” by Gregor Mendel; “Mathematics of Population and Food.” by Thomas Robert Malthus, and many more. 720pp.
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- Volume III (Parts VIII-XVII) contains essays on such topics as statistics and the design of experiments, group theory, the mathematics of infinity, the unreasonableness of mathematics, the vocabulary of mathematics, and mathematics as an art. Specific contributions include “The Law of Large Numbers,” by Jacob Bernoulli; “The Vice of Gambling and the Virtue of Insurance,” by George Bernard Shaw; “Mathematics and the Metaphysicians,” by Bertrand Russell; and many others. 624pp.
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- Volume IV (Parts XVIII-XXVI) considers such topics as mathematical machines, mathematics in warfare, a mathematical theory of art, mathematics of the good, mathematics in literature, mathematics and music, and amusements, puzzles, and fancies. Individual contributions include “Can a Machine Think?,” by A.M. Turing; “Young Archimedes,” by Aldous Huxley; “Mathematics of Music,” by Sir James Jeans; “What the Tortoise Said to Achilles and Other Riddles,” by Lewis Caroll; and more. 464pp.
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