The world of mathematics Volume 4 (Record no. 3251)
| 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 4 |
| 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 | 2024 - 2469 p. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | The world of mathematics |
| Number of part/section of a work | Volume IV |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | A mathematician's apology / G.H. Hardy -- Mathematical creation / Henri Poincare -- The mathematician / John von Neumann -- General and logical theory of automata / John von Neumann -- Can a machine think? / A.M. Turing -- A chess-playing machine / Claude Shannon -- Mathematics in warfare / Frederick William Lanchester -- How to hunt a submarine / Phillip M. Morse and George E. Kimball -- Mathematics of aesthetics / George David Birkhoff -- A mathematical approach to ethics / George David Birkhoff -- Cycloid pudding / Jonathan Swift -- Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley -- Geometry in the South Pacific / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Inflexible logic / Russell Maloney -- The law / Robert M. Coates -- Mathematics of music / Sir James Jeans -- Meaning of numbers / Oswald Spengler -- Locus of mathematical reality: an anthropological footnote / Leslie A. White -- Assorted paradoxes / Augustus de Morgan -- Flatland / Edwin A. Abbott -- What the tortoise says to Achilles and other riddles / Lewis Carroll -- The lever of Mahomet / Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins -- Pastimes of past and present times / Edward Kasner and James R. Neumann -- Arithmetical restorations / W.W. Rouse Ball -- The seven seven's / W.E.H. Berwick -- Easy mathematics and lawn tennis / T.J. I'A. Bromwich -- Mathematics for golfers / Stephen Leacock -- Common sense and the universe / Stephen Leacock. |
| 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 | 30396 |
| 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 Wor | 30396 | 2007-07-31 |