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041			_aeng
080			_a51 _bBOL
100			_aBollobas, Bela
245			_aLittlewood's Miscellany
250			_aA mathematician's miscellany
260			_aCambridge _bCambridge University Press _c1986
300			_a200 p.
505			_aIntroduction 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
520			_a"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			_aMathematicians Biography _vMathematics Popular works
690			_aMathematics
942			_cBK
999			_c14802 _d14802