Littlewood's Miscellany (Record no. 14802)
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| fixed length control field | 160616s1986 000 0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 052133702X |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Universal Decimal Classification number | 51 |
| Item number | BOL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Bollobas, Bela |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Littlewood's Miscellany |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | A mathematician's miscellany |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Cambridge |
| Name of publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year of publication | 1986 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 200 p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction to A Mathematician's Miscellany<br/>Mathematics with minimum 'Raw Material"<br/>From the mathematical tripos<br/>Cross-purposes, unconscious assumptions, howlers, misprints, etc<br/>The zoo<br/>Ballistics<br/>The dilemma of probability theory<br/>From Fermat's last theorem to the abolition of capital punishment<br/>A mathematical education<br/>Review of Ramanujan's collected papers<br/>Large numbers<br/>Lion and man<br/>People<br/>Academic life<br/>Odds and ends<br/>Newton and the attraction of a sphere<br/>The discovery of Neptune<br/>The Adams-Airy affair<br/>The mathematician's art of work |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "Littlewood's Miscellany, which includes most of the earlier work as well as much of the material Professor Littlewood collected after the publication of A Mathematician's Miscellany, allows us to see academic life in Cambridge, especially in Trinity College, through the eyes of one of its greatest figures. The joy that Professor Littlewood found in life and mathematics is reflected in the many amusing anecdotes about his contemporaries, written in his pungent, aphoristic style. The general reader should, in most instances, have no trouble following the mathematical passages"--Publisher's description |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Mathematicians Biography |
| Form subdivision | Mathematics Popular works |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mathematics |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BOOKS |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| IMSc Library | IMSc Library | First Floor, Rack No: 26, Shelf No: 4 | 51 BOL | 38453 | BOOKS |