Wide World Publishing, Tetra | 1997 | 163 páginas | rar - pdf | 6,3 Mb
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Mathematics can be a passionate subject, and this text introduces the human sides and foibles of mathematics and mathematicians. Each scandal is introduced by a vignette which, although fictional, follows factual historical accounts.
Contents
Introduction — vii
The irrational number cover-up — 1
Ada Byron Lovelace’s addiction — 7
Exposing L’Hospital’s claim to fame — 16
Whose solids are they anyway? — 22
The paranoia of Kurt Gödel — 26
Newton’s apple never was — 35
Mathematical “Brooklyn Bridge” — 39
Christians murder Hypatia — 44
Cantor driven to nervous breakdown — 50
The mathematician who pleaded insanity — 59
The scandalous treatment of Alan Turing — 63
Fourier cooks his own goose — 68
The secret work of Carl Gauss — 73
Female mathematician crashes the old boys’ club — 80
Newton was no sweet cookie — 86
Where’s the Nobel Prize in mathematics? — 96
Was Galois jinxed? — 102
I sleep therefore I think — 109
The feud over who invented calculus — 115
The truth about Einstein & Maric—It’s all relative — 121
Cardano vs Tartaglia—Who was maligned? — 131
Bibliography — 139
Index — 145
About the author — 151
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