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Important news about THE WORLD OF MATHEMATICS 102,000 PEOPLE BOUGHT THIS SET IN THE DE LUXE HARD-BOUND EDITION, CURRENTLY SELLING AT $25 Now the miracle of paperback publishing brings you all four volumes, boxed and unabridged, for 82 (if you reserve your set before publication) The most extensive collodion ever published, for layman and expert, of the great literature of Mathematics from the Rhinri Papyrus of Egypt to Ein stein's theories, edited by JAMES R. NEWMAN. Presented in 4 handsome illus trated volumes with 500 drawings, halftones and facsimile reproductions The World of Mathematics, pub lished in 1956 (after 15 years in work), became an instantaneous and spectacular bestseller. Since then this superb collection, the most extensive ever published of the literature of mathe matics, has found its way into more than 102,000 homes in the original higher priced, hard-bound editions. 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From Vajda on Matching Pennies to the Theories of Einstein What a wealth of wonderful reading is contained in these four magnificent volumes. From Archimedes on Poppy Seeds and the Universe to Shaw's The Vice of Gambling and theZ' irtue of Insurance here are 133 great hooks, essays, articles and stories more than a million words. All are woven together with a clear and brilliant 130,000 word com mentary by James R. Newman, member of the Board of Editors of Scientific American Magazine. Do you know what the smallest thing in the Universe is? The biggest? The fastest? Read D'Arey Thompson's essay on Magni tude. From Von Neumun's classic Theory of Games to the mathematics of music even of metaphysics and golf every field of math ematical thought is represented. "Simple" Arithmetic, and the Theory of Relativity O. Koehler's report on birds "who learned to think in un-namcd numbers" gives you a fresh vftw of "simple" counting und thought processes. J. B. S. 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The same 10-day privilege of return for full refund applies. ssvrris I A million words of "the most excit ing, stimulating, tantalizing, exas perating, mystify ing and generally delightful reading n man could ask for." Scientific A merican "The n,ost amaz ing selection of articles about mathematics yet published, a de- licht to readers with a wide vari ety of back grounds." Ne hi York Tim es Partial Contents I. GENERAL SURVEY - P. E. H. Jounlain: The Suture of Mathematics. II. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL - Herbert Wcsl ren TurnhuH: The Great Mathematicians; James K. Newman: The Rhinti Papyrus; Plutarch: Archimedes; It fiii! Descartes: Geometry; plus selcelimis hy Alfred North Whitehead, Krir Temple ltt'11, and 9 others. III. ARITHMETIC, NUMBERS AND THE ART OF COUNTING-Arrhimede: Poppy Seeds and The Uni verse; W. V. Koim Hall: Calculating Prodigies; Sir ltaac Newton: The Binomial Theorem; plus 6 others. IV. MATHEMATICS OF SPACE AND MOTION - Wil liam Kingdom Clifford: The Science a Space, The Space Theory of Matter; Leoiihanl Kuler: The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg; A famous Problem. Morris Kline: Projective Geometry; plus selection hy 7 others. V. MATHEMATICS AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD -Galileo: Mathematics of Motion; H. G. J. Moseley: Atomic Numbers; V.. V. Hoys: The Soap Babble; Grcgor Mendel: Mathematics of Heredity; PLUS IK others. VI. MATHEMATICS AND THI SOCIAL SCIENCES -Thomus Koherl Mullhus: Mathematics of Wealth; Lewis fry Kit h.irKn : Statistics of Deadly Quarrels; Murwin: On the Theory of Games; 7 others. VII. THE LAWS OF CHANCE Pierre Simon De Ln I'luee: Concerning Probability ; Charles Sunders I'eirce: The Red and The Black; 5 others. VIII. STATISTICS AND THE DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS J uruli Itcrnoulli: The Law of Large Numbers; L. C. Tinpetl: Sampling and Standard Error; PLUS selections hy G. II. Sltaw, John Gruunl, Hiilley, Fisher. tX. THE SUPREME ART OF ABSTRACTION! GROUP THEORY t .assius J, Keyacr: The Group Concept ; Sir Arthur S. Kddingtun: 77ie Theory of Groups. X. THI MATHEMATICS OF INFINITY-Kussell: Mathe matics and the Metaphysicians; Halm: Infinity. XI. MATHEMATICAL TRUTH AND THE STRUCTURE OF MATHEMATICS -Carl G. Hempel: On the Nature of Mathematical Truth; Huymmid L. Wilder: The Axi omatic Method ; plus selection hy 5 others. XII. THE MATHEMATICAL WAY OF THINKING -Onirics Sunders I'eirce; The Essence of Mathematics; Kmsl Much: The Economy of Science; plus 3 others. XIII. MATHEMATICS AND LOQIC-Ceorge Untile: The Mathematical Analysis of Logic; Kntcst Nugcl: Sym bolic Notation; 3 others. XIV. THE UNREASONABLENESS OF MATHEMATICS - Kasner und Newman: Paradox Lost and Paradox Hegained; Hans llnhn: The Crisis in Intuition. XV. BECOMING ONE'S OWN MATHEMATICIAN - C. l'olyn: How to Solve It, (excerpt). XVI. THE VOCABULARY OF MATHEMATICS Edward K aimer and James K. Newman: New Names for Old. XVII. MATHEMATICS AS AN ART John W. N. Sulli van : Mathematics as an Art. XVIII. THI MATHEMATICIAN EXPLAINS HIMSELF G. II. Hardy: A Mathematician's Apology; Henri I'o in rare: Mathematical Creation; How Ideas Are Born; John Von Neumann: The. Mathematician, XIX. VARIOUS CLEVER MACHINES -Von Neumann: Theory of Automata; A. M. Turing: Can a Machine Think? Shannon: A Chess-Playing Machine. XX. THE UNGENTLE USES OF MATHEMATICS - P. W. Lanchrstcr: Mathematics in Warfare; Morse and Kim- Imll; Jlvw to Hunt a Submarine. XXI. A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF ART - C. ). liirMiolT: 77ie Mathematics of Aesthetics. XXII. MATHEMATICS AND MORALITY - C. U. Dirk holT: A Mathematical Approach to Ethics. XXIII. MATHEMATICS IN LITERATURE - Swift: Cy cloid Pudding; Huiley: Young Archimedes; plus se-' lections hy KuskcII Maloney, 2 others. XXIV. MATHEMATICS AND MUSIC - Sir James Jeans: The Mathematics of Music. XXV. MATHEMATICS AS A CULTURE CLUI - Oswald S pen pier: The Meaning of Numbers; Leslie A. While: An Anthropological footnote. XXVI. MATHEMATICAL DIVERSIONS, PUZZLES, AND FANCIES with selections hy: Stephen Learock, Lewis Carroll, W. W. House Hall, 7 others. PLUS B9 interpretive essays and 1,000 illustrations.
