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3.1416 And All That [1985]
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The Problem That Saved a Man’s Life
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The Code of the Primes
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Pompeiu’s Magic Seven
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What is an Abstraction?
- 27
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Postulates—The Bylaws of Mathematics
- 33
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The Logical Lie Detector
- 40
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Number
- 63
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The Philadelphia Story
- 65
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Poinsot’s Points and Lines
- 71
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Chaos and Polygons
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Numbers, Point and Counterpoint
- 88
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The Mathematical Beauty Contest
- 94
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The House That Geometry Built
- 101
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Explorers of the Nth Dimension
- 108
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The Band-Aid Principle
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The Spider and the Fly
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A Walk in the Neighborhood
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Division in the Cellar
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The Art of Squeezing
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The Business of Inequalities
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The Abacus and the Slipstick
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Of Maps and Mathematics
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“Mr. Milton, Mr. Bradley—Meet Andrey Andreyevich Markov”
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3.1416 and All That