Littlewood's Miscellany

By: Bollobas, BelaMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1986Edition: A mathematician's miscellanyDescription: 200 pISBN: 052133702XSubject(s): Mathematicians Biography -- Mathematics Popular works | Mathematics
Contents:
Introduction to A Mathematician's Miscellany Mathematics with minimum 'Raw Material" From the mathematical tripos Cross-purposes, unconscious assumptions, howlers, misprints, etc The zoo Ballistics The dilemma of probability theory From Fermat's last theorem to the abolition of capital punishment A mathematical education Review of Ramanujan's collected papers Large numbers Lion and man People Academic life Odds and ends Newton and the attraction of a sphere The discovery of Neptune The Adams-Airy affair The mathematician's art of work
Summary: "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
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Introduction to A Mathematician's Miscellany
Mathematics with minimum 'Raw Material"
From the mathematical tripos
Cross-purposes, unconscious assumptions, howlers, misprints, etc
The zoo
Ballistics
The dilemma of probability theory
From Fermat's last theorem to the abolition of capital punishment
A mathematical education
Review of Ramanujan's collected papers
Large numbers
Lion and man
People
Academic life
Odds and ends
Newton and the attraction of a sphere
The discovery of Neptune
The Adams-Airy affair
The mathematician's art of work

"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

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