{"product_id":"littlewoods-miscellany-paperback-9780521337021","title":"Littlewood's Miscellany (Paperback) 9780521337021","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLittlewood's Miscellany\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBéla Bollobás (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521337021, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 30 October 1986\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e212 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.1 x 1.2 cm, 0.27 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Every line will delight lovers of mathematics, but even readers who have never had a mathematical thought will--if they love evidence of humane intelligence and wise wit--find here much to savor.  A very special classic.\"  SciTech Book News\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eLittlewood'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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFrontispiece\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction to A Mathematician's Miscellany\u003cbr\u003e 2. Mathematics with minimum 'Raw Material'\u003cbr\u003e 3. From the mathematical tripos\u003cbr\u003e 4. Cross-purposes, unconscious assumptions, howlers, misprints, etc\u003cbr\u003e 5. The zoo\u003cbr\u003e 6. Ballistics\u003cbr\u003e 7. The dilemma of probability theory\u003cbr\u003e 8. From Fermat's last theorem to the abolition of capital punishment\u003cbr\u003e 9. A mathematical education\u003cbr\u003e 10. Review of Ramanujan's collected papers\u003cbr\u003e 11. Large numbers\u003cbr\u003e 12. Lion and man\u003cbr\u003e 13. People\u003cbr\u003e 14. Academic life\u003cbr\u003e 15. Odds and ends\u003cbr\u003e 16. Newton and the attraction of a sphere\u003cbr\u003e 17. The discovery of Neptune\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Adams-Airy affair\u003cbr\u003e 19. The mathematician's art of work.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Mathematics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Mathematics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Mathematics%20%5BPB%5D%22\"\u003ePB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46001109827864,"sku":"9780521337021","price":23.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521337021i_7202dfb3-6a93-49c7-8621-ce051aa468a3.jpg?v=1691375284","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/littlewoods-miscellany-paperback-9780521337021","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}