The world of mathematics Volume 3 (Record no. 3250)
| 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 3 |
| 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 | 1416 - 2021 p. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | The world of mathematics |
| Number of part/section of a work | Volume III |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Foundations of vital statistics / John Graunt -- First life insurance tables / Edmund Halley -- The law of large numbers / Jacob Bernoulli -- Sampling and standard error / L.C. Tippett -- On the average and scatter / M.J. Moroney -- Mathematics of a lady tasting tea / Sir Ronald A. Fisher -- The vice of gambling and the virtue of insurance / George Bernard Shaw -- The group concept / Cassius J. Keyser -- Theory of groups / Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington -- Mathematics and metaphysicians / Bertrand Russell -- Infinity / Hans Hahn -- On the naure of mathematical truth / Carl G. Hempel -- Geometry and empirical science / Carl G. Hempel -- Axiomatic method / Raymond L. Wilder -- Goedel's proof / Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman -- Mathematical science / Oswald Veblen and John Wesley Young -- Mathematics and the world / Douglas Gasking -- Mathematical postulates and human understanding / Richard von Mises -- The study that knows nothing of observation / James Joseph Sylvester -- Essence of mathematics / Charles Sanders Peirce -- Economy of Science / Ernst Mach -- Measurement / Norman Campbell -- Numerical laws / Norman Campbell -- The mathematical way of thinking / Hermann Weyl -- Mathematical analysis of logic / George Boole -- History of symbolic logic / Clarence Irving Lewis and Cooper Harold Langford -- Symbolic notation, Haddock's eyes and the dog-walking ordinance / Ernest Nagel -- Symbolic logic / Alfred Tarski -- Paradist lost and paradise regained / Edward Kasner and James R. Newman -- Crisis in intuition / Hans Hahn -- How to solve it / G. Polya -- New names for old / Edward Kasner and James R. Newman -- Mathematics as an art / John William Navin Sullivan -- |
| 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 | 30395 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | 50.00 | 510.82 Wor | 30395 | 2007-07-31 |