Mathematical scandals / Theoni Pappas.
| Κύριος συγγραφέας: | |
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Έκδοση: |
San Carlos, Calif. :
Wide World Pub.,
1997.
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| Θέματα: |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Irrational number cover-up
- Ada Byron Lovelace's addiction
- Exposing L'Hospital's claim to fame
- Whose solids are they anyway?
- Paranoia of Kurt Gödel
- Newton's apple never was
- Mathematical "Brooklyn Bridge" - Christians murder Hypatia
- Cantor driven to nervous breakdown
- Mathematician who pleaded insanity
- Scandalous treatment of Alan Turing
- Fourier cooks his own goose
- Female mathematician crashes the old boy's club
- Newton was no sweet cookie
- Where's the Nobel Prize in mathematics?
- Was Galois jinxed?
- I sleep therefore I think
- Feud over who invented calculus
- Truth about Einstein and Maric, it's all relative
- Cardano vs Tartaglia, who was maligned?
