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 --

This set was designed to make mathematics more accessible to the civilian. It includes non-technical essays and numerous articles.

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