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Mathematical scandals / Theoni Pappas.
| Author/creator | Pappas, Theoni |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | San Carlos, Calif. : Wide World Pub., 1997. |
| Description | 151 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Irrational number cover-up -- Ada Byron Lovelace's addiction -- Exposing L'Hospital's claim to fame -- Whose solids are they anyway? -- Paranoia of Kurt Godel -- Newton's apple never was -- Mathematical "Brooklyn Bridge" -- Christians murder Hypatia -- Cantor driven to nervous breakdown -- Mathematician who pleaded insanity -- Scandalous treatment of Alan Turing -- Fourier cooks his own goose - Female mathematician crashes the old boy's club -- Newton was no sweet cookie -- Where's the Nobel Prize in mathematics? -- Was Galois jinxed? -- I sleep therefore I think -- Feud over who invented calculus -- Truth about Einstein and Maric, it's all relative -- Cardano vs Tartaglia, who was maligned? |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-142) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Pappas, Theoni. Mathematical scandals. San Carlos, Calif. : Wide World Pub., 1997 |
| LCCN | 97012297 |
| ISBN | 188455010X (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781884550102 (pbk.) |