Browse Items (37 total)
- Tags: Maths
The science of deduction
'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
'To a logician', Harpers
Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-6-1; Burnett, Dana; Maths
Willy�s mathematics
'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
'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
'Higher mathematics', Harpers
Tags: 1920s; 1922; 1922-12-1; Day laborers; Humor; Mathematics; Maths; Other; United States
Mathematics for golfers
'Mathematics for golfers', Harpers
Tags: 1920s; 1928; 1928-4-1; Golf; Humor; Leacock, Stephen; Maths; Other; United States
Higher mathematics
'Higher mathematics', Harpers
Tags: 1920s; 1929; 1929-7-1; Bailey, Margaret Emerson; Maths
Math�s a pleasure
'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
'Baseball', Harpers
Tags: 1950s; 1957; 1957-5-1; Baseball; Maths; Probabilities; probabilty; Records; Schwed, Fred; Statistics; United States
Math even parents can understand
'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
'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
'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
'Plaintive geometry', Harpers
Tags: 1960s; 1966; 1966-6-1; Lamport, Felicia; Maths
Undecidables
'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
'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
'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
'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
'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 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
'The awakening of my interest in annular systems', Harpers
Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-9-1; Maths; Wallace, David Foster
Blood and logic
'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
'Beautiful equations', Harpers
Tags: 1990s; 1995; 1995-1-1; Lightman, Alan; Maths
When to Stop Counting
'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
'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
'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
'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
'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?
'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?
'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
'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