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Mathematics and the Unexpected
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: Ivar Ekeland
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-01-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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"Not the least unexpected thing about Mathematics and the Unexpected is that a real mathematician should write not just a literate work, but a literary one."—
The Unexpected Hanging
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Martin Gardner
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The Broken Dice, and Other Mathematical Tales of Chance
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Ivar Ekeland
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-06-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Contemplating the randomness of nature, Ekeland extends his consideration of the catastrophe theory of the universe begun in Mathematics and the Unexpected, dra
Unexpected Links Between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: J”ran Friberg
Categories: Mathematics
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Mesopotamian mathematics is known from a great number of cuneiform texts, most of them Old Babylonian, some Late Babylonian or pre-Old-Babylonian, and has been
The Best of All Possible Worlds
Language: en
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Authors: Ivar Ekeland
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10-31 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds, and pessimists fear that might really be the case. There was a time, during the 17th and 18th centuri