- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 “Sports and Pastimes, Done by Number”: Mathematical Tricks, Mathematical Games
- 2 “Much Necessary for All States of Men”: From Arithmetic to Algebra
- 3 “A Goodly Struggle”: Problems, Puzzles, and Challenges
- 4 “Drawyng, Measuring and Proporcion”: Geometry and Trigonometry
- 5 Maps, Monsters, and Riddles: The Worlds of Mathematical Popularization
- 6 “To Ease and Expedite the Work”: Mathematical Instruments and How to Use Them
- 7 “How Fine a Mind”: Mathematicians Past
- 8 “By Plain and Practical Rules”: Mathematics at Work
- 9 “The Speedier Expedition of Their Learning”: Thoughts on Teaching and Learning Mathematics
- “To Have Their Children or Servants Instructed”
- Euclid with Algebra
- The Idea of Velocity
- Mathematical Toys
- A Mother Explains Comets
- “Geometry without Axioms”
- The Game of Logic
- Higher Mathematics for Women
- A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
- New Math for Parents
- “Merely a Formal Statement of the Way We Think”
- Turtle Fun
- 10 “So Fundamentally Useful a Science”: Reflections on Mathematics and Its Place in the World
- The Myrrour of the Worlde
- “A Very Fruitfull Praeface”
- “Geometry Is Improving Daily”
- The Fifth Element
- Of Mathematics in General
- Lineal Arithmetic
- Astronomy in New South Wales
- The Advantages of Mathematics
- Sylvester Contra Huxley
- What a Mathematical Proposition Is
- The Character of Physical Law
- Our Invisible Culture
- 11 The Mathematicians Who Never Were: Fiction and Humor
- Index
A Wealth of Numbers
An Anthology
of 500 Years of Popular
Mathematics Writing
EDITED BY BENJAMIN WARDHAUGH
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