Gateway to the Great Books volume 9 Mathematics
Edited by Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler and Clifton Fadiman
- Chicago, Illinois Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. 1963
- 348 p.
- Gateway to the great books 10 volumes Vol. IX .
v. 9. Mathematics -- Mathematics, the Mirror of Civilization / Lancelot Hogben -- Mathematics, in Life and Thought / Andrew Russell Forsyth -- On Mathematical Method (from An Introduction to Mathematics) / Alfred North Whitehead -- On the Nature of a Calculus / Alfred North Whitehead -- The Study of Mathematics / Bertrand Russell -- Mathematics and the Metaphysicians / Bertrand Russell -- Definition of Number / Bertrand Russell -- New Names for Old / Edward Kasner, James R. Newman -- Beyond the Googol / Edward Kasner, James R. Newman -- Fingerprints / Tobias Dantzig -- The Empty Column / Tobias Dantzig -- The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg / Leonhard Euler -- Measurement / Norman Robert Campbell -- Numerical Laws and the Use of Mathematics in Science / Norman Robert Campbell -- The Postulates of the Science of Space / William Kingdon Clifford -- Space / Henri Poincare -- Mathematical Creation / Henri Poincare -- Chance / Henri Poincare -- Probability (from A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities) / Pierre Simon De Laplace -- The Red and the Black / Charles Sanders Peirce.
Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works.