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A wealth of numbers: an anthology of 500 years of popular mathematics
writing / edited by Benjamin Wardhaugh.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-691-14775-8 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 1. Mathematics.

I. Wardhaugh, Benjamin, 1979–

QA7.W43 2012

500.9—dc23          2011038672

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