The world of mathematics Volume 1 (Record no. 3248)
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
|---|---|
| Classification number | 510.82 Wor |
| Item number | 11 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) | |
| Classification number | 510.82 Wor |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The world of mathematics Volume 1 |
| Remainder of title | a small library of the literature of mathematics from Aʻh-mosé the scribe to Albert Einstein |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Commentaries and notes by James R. Newman |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Simon & Schuster |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1956 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 724 p. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | The world of mathematics |
| Number of part/section of a work | Volume I |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Great mathematicians / Herbert Westren Turnbull -- The rhind papyrus / James R. Newman -- Archimedes / Plutarch, Vitruvius, Tzetzes -- Greek mathematics / Ivor Thomas -- Declaration of the profit of arithmeticke / Robert Recorde -- Johann Kepler / Sir Olver Lodge -- Geometry / Rene Descartes -- Isaac Newton / E.N. Da C. Andrade -- Newton, the man / John Maynard Keynes -- The analyst / Bishop Berkeley -- Gauss, the prince of mathematicians / Eric Temple Bell -- Invariant twins, Cayley and Sylvester / Eric Temple Bell -- Srinivasa Ramanujan / James R. Newman -- My mental development / Bertrand Russell -- Mathematics as an element in the history of thought / Alfred North Whitehead -- The sand reckoner / Archimedes -- Counting / Levi Leonard Conant -- From numbers to numerals and from numerals to computation / David Eugene Smith and Jekuthiel Ginsburg -- Calculating prodigies / W.W. Rouse Ball -- The ability of birds to "count" / O. Koehler -- Queen of mathematics / Eric Temple Bell -- On the binomial theorem for fractional and negative exponents / Isaac Newton -- Irrational numbers / Richard Dedekind -- Definition of number / Bertrand Russell -- Exactness of mathematical laws / William Kingdon Clifford -- Postulates of the science of space / William Kingdon Clifford -- On the space theory of matter / William Kingdon Clifford -- The seven bridges of Konigsberg / Leonhard Euler -- Topology / Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins -- Durer as a mathematician / Erwin Panofsky -- Projective geometry / Morris Kline -- On the origin and significance of geometrical axioms / Hermann von Helmholtz -- Symmetry / Hermann Weyl -- |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This set was designed to make mathematics more accessible to the civilian. It includes non-technical essays and numerous articles. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | 30393 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Source of heading or term | Mathematics |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Anthologies |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Source of heading or term | Mathematics |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | History |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Source of heading or term | Mathematics |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Collected Works |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Relator code | Comments |
| Personal name | Newman, James R. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Koha item type | 500 - 599 |
| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Permanent Location | Current Location | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen |
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| Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | 50.00 | 510.82 Ahm | 30393 | 2007-07-31 |