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A Wealth of Numbers
by Benjamin Wardhaugh
A Wealth of Numbers
Cover
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Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
1 “Sports and Pastimes, Done by Number”: Mathematical Tricks, Mathematical Games
The Well Spring of Sciences
Mathematical Recreations
“How Prodigiously Numbers Do Increase”
Profitable and Delightful Problems
Lotteries and Mountebanks
Dodging the Mastodon and the Plesiosaurus
“Plenty of Interesting Things to Be Discovered”
2 “Much Necessary for All States of Men”: From Arithmetic to Algebra
Addition and Subtraction
Multiplication and Division
Reducing Fractions
Decimal Fractions
Extracting Square Roots
The Rule of Three
The Rule of Three, in Verse
“The First Analysts”
Quadratic Equations
Cubic Equations for the Practical Man
3 “A Goodly Struggle”: Problems, Puzzles, and Challenges
The Ladies’ Diary
The Girl’s Own Book
The Boy’s Own Magazine
“The Analyst”
Can You Solve It?
Mathematical Challenges
4 “Drawyng, Measuring and Proporcion”: Geometry and Trigonometry
Points and Lines
Squares and Triangles
Pythagoras’s Theorem
Trigonometrical Definitions
The Resolution of Triangles
Introduction to Spherical Geometry
Napier’s Rules
5 Maps, Monsters, and Riddles: The Worlds of Mathematical Popularization
The Athenian Mercury
Newton for the Ladies
Maps and Mazes
“Einstein’s Real Achievement”
Riddles in Mathematics
Fermat’s Last Theorem
Where Does It End?
Yamátárájabhánasalagám
Saddles and Soap Bubbles
“The Monster” Unveiled
6 “To Ease and Expedite the Work”: Mathematical Instruments and How to Use Them
“Cards for the Sea”
Making a Horizontal Sundial
Speaking-Rods
Telescopes Refracting and Reflecting
Scales Simple and Diagonal
Making a Star Clock
PC Astronomy
7 “How Fine a Mind”: Mathematicians Past
The Labyrinth and Abyss of Infinity
“It Must Have Commenced with Mankind”
Kepler’s Astronomical Publications
Isaac Newton, a Good and Great Man
Pythagoras and His Theorem
Seki Kōwa
“Her Absolute, Incomparable Uniqueness”
“One of Your Calculating Fits”
Analysis Incarnate
Hardy and Littlewood Rummage
8 “By Plain and Practical Rules”: Mathematics at Work
High Marshal and Camp Master
The Practical Gauger
Geodæsia
Plain Sailing
High-Pressure Engines
The Strength of Materials
Plumbing and Hydraulics
Automobiles and Printing
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
Spider-Men and Lice-Men
In the Court of Lilliput
Automathes
The Loves of the Triangles
Master Senex the Astronomer
An Ode to the Mathematics
“Some Veritable Urania”
Fun
A Sight of Thine Interior
Scenes in the Life of Pythagoras
Bao Suyo
Index
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