Mathematical Cranks by Underwood Dudley

Mathematical Cranks

Underwood Dudley

383 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics informative lighthearted medium-paced
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A delightful collection of articles about people who claim they have achieved the mathematically impossible (squaring the circle, duplicating the cube); people who think they have done something they have not (proving Fermat's Last Theorem); peopl...

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