Browse Items (37 total)

'The science of deduction', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1913; 1913-6-1; Artists; Caricatures and cartoons; Conacher, John C.; Logic; Maths; Older men; United States

'To a logician', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-6-1; Burnett, Dana; Maths

'Willy�s mathematics', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-3-1; 1920s; Clerks (Retail trade); Grocery shopping; Humor; Mathematics; Maths; Role playing in children; Study and teaching; Teaching; United States

'Mathematics up to date', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-3-1; 1920s; Addition; Children�s questions and answers; Humor; Inflation (Finance); Mathematics; Maths; Other; Study and teaching; United States

'Higher mathematics', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1922; 1922-12-1; Day laborers; Humor; Mathematics; Maths; Other; United States

'Mathematics for golfers', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1928; 1928-4-1; Golf; Humor; Leacock, Stephen; Maths; Other; United States

'Higher mathematics', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1929; 1929-7-1; Bailey, Margaret Emerson; Maths

'Math�s a pleasure', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1954; 1954-8-1; Math anxiety; Mathematical recreations; Mathematics; Maths; Other; Salvadori, Mario George; Study and teaching; United States; Word problems (Mathematics)

'Baseball', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1957; 1957-5-1; Baseball; Maths; Probabilities; probabilty; Records; Schwed, Fred; Statistics; United States

'Math even parents can understand', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1958; 1958-4-1; Drucker, Peter Ferdinand; Education; Mathematical ability; Mathematics; Maths; Other; Parent participation; Study and teaching; United States

'The mathematics of sex, gambling, and insurance', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1959; 1959-9-1; Gambling systems; Huff, Darrell; Insurance; Mathematical statistics; Maths; Probabilities; Sex ratio; Statistics; United States

'Mathematics for practically everybody', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1963; 1963-8-1; Øystein Ore; Book reviews; Books; C.D. (Carl Douglas) Olds; Frank Land; Guillemin, V.; Helen Wright; James Roy Newman; Martin Gardner; Mathematics; Maths; P.W. (Percy Williams) Bridgman; Reviews; Samuel Berder Rapport; United States

'Plaintive geometry', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1966; 1966-6-1; Lamport, Felicia; Maths

'Undecidables', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-2-16; Alan Turing; Andrew Hodges; Computer Science; Cryptography; Hampshire, Stuart; Logic; Mathematics; Maths

'Goodbye to the Aether', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-2-20; Edmund Whittaker; History of Science; James Clerk Maxwell; Maths; P.M. Harman; Physics; Pippard, Brian; William Thomson

'Hofstadterismus', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-4-17; Dorothy Stein; Douglas Hofstadter; Hodges, Andrew; Logic; Mathematics; Maths; Psychology; Social Critique

'Faith, Hope and Probability', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-5-23; Douglas, Mary; History of Science; Ian Hacking; Maths; probability; Statistics

'Tennis, trigonometry, tornadoes', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-12-1; David Foster Wallace; Illinois; Maths; Other; Suburban life; Teenage boys; Tennis; Tornadoes; training; Wallace, David Foster

'The Mountains of Pi', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-3-2; Gregory Chudnovsky; mail-order; Mathematics; Maths; number theory; Preston, Richard; supercomputer; supercomputers; theorems and hypotheses

'The awakening of my interest in annular systems', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-9-1; Maths; Wallace, David Foster

'Blood and logic', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1994; 1994-6-1; Biography; Dummett, Michael; Jean van Heijenoort; Leon Trotsky; Logic; Mathematics; Maths

'Beautiful equations', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1995; 1995-1-1; Lightman, Alan; Maths

'When to Stop Counting', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1997; 1997-11-27; Amir Aczel; Andrew Wiles; Fermat's Last Theorem; Mathematics; Maths; Rotman, Brian; theorems and hypotheses

'Fortress Mathematica', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-9-17; Astrobiology; Biology; G�nter Ziegler; John Nash; Martin Aigner; Mathematics; Maths; Paul Erd�s; Paul Hoffman; Rotman, Brian; Sylvia Nasar

'Sea-shells and Tigers', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1999; 1999-3-18; Alan Turing; Astrobiology; Biology; D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson; Ian Stewart; John Tyler Bonner; Kitcher, Philip; Mathematics; Maths; Stephen Jay Gould; tom Stoppard

'Counting Body Parts', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000; 2000-1-20; 2000s; Brian Butterworth; Innateness; Mathematics; Maths; Paulos, John Allen

'Why statistics tend not only to describe the world but to change it', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000; 2000-4-13; 2000s; Alain Desrosi�res; Daston, Lorraine; Ian Hacking; Marie-No�lle Bourguet; Mary Morgan; Mathematics; Maths; Statistics; Stephen Stigler; Theodore Porter

'How did the slime mould cross the maze?', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2002; 2002-3-21; Complexity Theory; emergence; Henry Mayhew; Jane Jacobs; Mark Taylor; Maths; Slime Moulds; Steven Johnson; Woolfson, Adrian

'If you change a four-lane highway into a six-lane highway and back again, by how much do you increase its capacity?', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2002; 2002-10-17; Gerd Gigerenzer; John Lanchester; Maths; McManus, Chris; probability; Uncertainty

'Genetic Mountaineering', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2003; 2003-6-2; Complexity Theory; emergence; King Louis-Philippe; Maths; Richard Lewontin; Robert-Houdin; Simon Conway Morris; Stephen Jay Gould; Stephen Wolfram; Stuart Kauffman; Woolfson, Adrian