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Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematicsby John Stillwell

โœ Scribed by Review by: Paul J. Nahin


Book ID
124944516
Publisher
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
338 KB
Volume
49
Category
Article
ISSN
0036-1445

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