Littlewood's Miscellany
Littlewood's Miscellany
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Published:
30 October, 1986
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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. For this publication, the new material has been prepared by Béla Bollobás; his foreword is based on a talk he gave to the British Society for the History of Mathematics on the occasion of Littlewood's centenary.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780521337021 |
| ISBN10 | 052133702X |
| Number Of Pages | 212 |
| Item Weight | 285 g |
| Product Dimensions | 152 x 229 x 12 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Cambridge University Press |
| Format | paperback |
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"Every line will delight lovers of mathematics, but even readers who have never had a mathematical thought will--if they love evidence of humane intelligence and wise wit--find here much to savor. A very special classic." SciTech Book News