The world of mathematics Volume 4 a small library of the literature of mathematics from Aʻh-mosé the scribe to Albert Einstein
Commentaries and notes by James R. Newman
- New York Simon & Schuster 1956
- 2024 - 2469 p.
- The world of mathematics Volume IV .
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.
This set was designed to make mathematics more accessible to the civilian. It includes non-technical essays and numerous articles.