Mathematics and the Imagination

✍ Scribed by Edward Kasner, James Newman

• Book ID: 127450171
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 9 MB
• Edition: illustrated edition
• Category: Library
• ISBN-13: 9780486417035

✦ Synopsis

Explores some of the lesser known and more imaginative aspects of mathematics, such as the googolplex, four-dimensional geometry, puzzles, paradoxes, the laws of chance, rubber-sheet geometry, and the historical development of calculus. Originally published by Simon and Schuster in 1940.