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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
"This is a truly fascinating story which ... provides an insight into the life of an outstanding scientific writer."
—J. Usher, Mathematics Today
"If I ever were stranded in an airport, bored silly and searching for someone to talk to, I think I'd like Phillip J. Davis to be stranded with me... Davis appears to have no artifice. His book is a compendium of several tales that caught his interest. It's also a book that, often subtly, reveals the sort of mathematical lore that keeps mathematicians talking as they gather for afternoon tea in universities throughout the country."
—SIAM Review
Authors and Affiliations
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Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, USA
Philip J. Davis
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematical Encounters of the Second Kind
Authors: Philip J. Davis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2462-4
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Boston 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-3939-6Published: 01 December 1996
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7547-3Published: 27 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-2462-4Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 304
Topics: Philosophy of Science, History of Mathematical Sciences