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Spell of mathematics
This book catching the real spirit and fun of good mathematics. Dr Reichmann by turns absorbs us in paradox, stimulates us to thought, and finally displays a lively mental perception in reaching his solutions. Stressing the links, rather than the gaps, between the various areas of mathematics and the physical sciences, he treats of nearly every branch of the discipline, from Pythagoras to the calculus of Gauss and Newton, from baffling quadratics and irrational numbers to matrices, sets and the algebra of Boole. In what, for the layman, is an excellent introduction to modern mathematics as a whole, he also explains in clear and humorous terms the surprising characteristics of such universal geometries as those propounded by Riemann and Lobachewsky.
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