Littlewood's MiscellanyCambridge University Press, 1986 M10 30 - 200 páginas 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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Foreword | 1 |
Introduction to A Mathematicians Miscellany | 23 |
Mathematics with Minimum Raw Material | 25 |
From the Mathematical Tripos | 44 |
CrossPurposes Unconscious Assumptions Howlers Misprints etc | 48 |
The Zoo | 62 |
Ballistics | 66 |
The Dilemma of Probability Theory | 71 |
Large Numbers | 100 |
Lion and Man | 114 |
People | 118 |
Academic Life | 132 |
Odds and Ends | 152 |
Newton and the Attraction of a Sphere | 169 |
The Discovery of Neptune | 174 |
The AdamsAiry Affair | 184 |
From Fermats Last Theorem to the Abolition of Capital Punishment | 74 |
A Mathematical Education | 80 |
Review of Ramanujans Collected Papers | 94 |
The Mathematicians Art of Work | 189 |
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