For many years, famed mathematics historian and master teacher Howard Eves collected stories and anecdotes about mathematics and mathematicians, gathering them together in six Mathematical Circles books. Thousands of teachers of mathematics have read these stories and anecdotes for their own enjoyment and used them in the classroom - to add entertainment, to introduce a human element, to inspire the student, and to forge some links of cultural history. All six of the Mathematical Circles books have been reissued as a three-volume edition. This three-volume set is a must for all who enjoy the mathematical enterprise, especially those who appreciate the human and cultural aspects of mathematics.
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'The 360 different anecdotes compiled in these delightful volumes will add zest to every teacher's mathematical classes. There are appropriate selections for all levels of students. They are short, succinct, and at the same time given in simple settings which enable the reader to identify with the story and its implications. Here is presented the kind of material that makes the difference to the undecided student. I highly recommend you putting a copy next to your worktable.' The Mathematics Teacher
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Howard Eves has collected stories and anecdotes about mathematics and mathematicians, gathering them together in six Mathematical Circles books, now reissued as a three-volume edition. Teachers of mathematics can read these stories and anecdotes for their own enjoyment, and use them in the classroom to add entertainment and inspire students.
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A collection of the best anecdotes about mathematical people that you will ever read,
By Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Mathematical Circles Revisited & Mathematical Circles Squared (Mathematical Association of America) (Hardcover)
This collection of brief anecdotes about math and the people that have done it is one of the easiest to read and most revealing items that you can read about mathematics. Most of the short points are about the people that have done math, their quirks, achievements and sometimes failures. Some of them are classics, for example the "absent-minded professor" stories about Norbert Wiener have all appeared in many other locations and he appears to have been the original model.
There are also many quotes of how people that did mathematics felt about it. One of the most heart-warming stories is about the little girl that suddenly starts doing better in her math. When her teacher asked her about it she said that "there is a nice old gentleman on Mercer Street who is helping me." That man turned out to be Albert Einstein and when the girl's mother asked him, "Why do you spend your time helping my little girl? What do you get out of it?" he responded by saying "But I do get something out of it. Every time I help her she gives me a lollipop." The idea of the man with such great ideas helping a young girl with her basic math homework is one of the most pleasant thoughts one can have. There have been several books published about mathematical people; this one depicts them as a bit unusual but much more kind and considerate than the non-mathematical public believes.
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OUR earliest brush with mathematics-and it occurred when we were the merest of children-concerned itself with numbers and numerals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Norbert Wiener, New York, Emmy Noether, Mathematical Circles Revisited, David Hilbert, Professor Wiener, Columbia University, University of Maine, World War, Felix Klein, Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, Albert Einstein, Augustus De Morgan, Benjamin Banneker, Edmund Landau, Edward Kasner, French Academy, Historically Speaking, Nicolas Bourbaki, Professor Coolidge, Saint Jerome, Sonja Kovalevsky, University of Edinburgh New!
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OUR earliest brush with mathematics-and it occurred when we were the merest of children-concerned itself with numbers and numerals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pandiagonal magic square, normal magic squares, prime magic squares, mathematical museum, demonstration desk, mathematical stories, magic cube, counting board, mathematics building, tally stick, numeral system, parallel postulate, finger counting Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Norbert Wiener, New York, Emmy Noether, Mathematical Circles Revisited, David Hilbert, Professor Wiener, Columbia University, University of Maine, World War, Felix Klein, Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, Albert Einstein, Augustus De Morgan, Benjamin Banneker, Edmund Landau, Edward Kasner, French Academy, Historically Speaking, Nicolas Bourbaki, Professor Coolidge, Saint Jerome, Sonja Kovalevsky, University of Edinburgh New!
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- A Budget of Paradoxes (Thoemmes Press - Thoemmes Library of British Philosophers) by Augustus De Morgan on 4 pages
- An Introduction to Mathematics (Galaxy Books Series Gb P) by A. N. Whitehead on page 59, and page 111
- Mathematical Circles Adieu and Return to Mathematical Circles (Mathematical Circles, Volume III) (Mathematical Association of America) by Howard W. Eves in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- In Mathematical Circles: A Selection of Mathematical Stories and Anecdotes: Quadrants I, II, III, and IV (Mathematical Association of America) by Howard W. Eves in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Mathematical Circles Squared by H. Eves in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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