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3.1416 And All That [1985]

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The Problem That Saved a Man’s Life
7
The Code of the Primes
14
Pompeiu’s Magic Seven
20
What is an Abstraction?
27
Postulates—The Bylaws of Mathematics
33
The Logical Lie Detector
40
Number
63
The Philadelphia Story
65
Poinsot’s Points and Lines
71
Chaos and Polygons
79
Numbers, Point and Counterpoint
88
The Mathematical Beauty Contest
94
The House That Geometry Built
101
Explorers of the Nth Dimension
108
The Band-Aid Principle
117
The Spider and the Fly
123
A Walk in the Neighborhood
131
Division in the Cellar
137
The Art of Squeezing
144
The Business of Inequalities
152
The Abacus and the Slipstick
159
Of Maps and Mathematics
164
“Mr. Milton, Mr. Bradley—Meet Andrey Andreyevich Markov”
172
3.1416 and All That
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