Gateway to the Great Books volume 9

Additional authors: Ed. -- Hutchins, Robert M. | Ed. -- Adler, Mortimer J. | Ed. -- Fadiman, Clifton

Series: Gateway to the great books 10 volumes Vol. IX Published by : Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois ) Physical details: 348 p. ISBN:37766.

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Year: 1963

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Item type	Current location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Basement		808.8 Gat (Browse shelf)	Available		37766

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.

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