Authors:Underwood Dudley, Editor, Underwood Dudley,
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
Keywords: spectrum, miscellany, inevitable, mathematics
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2008-01-07
List price: $56.95
ISBN-10: 0883855666
ISBN-13: 9780883855669

This is a collection of gems from the literature of mathematics that shine as brightly today as when they first appeared in print. They deserve to be seen and admired. The selections include two opposing views on the purpose of mathematics, The Strong Law of Small Numbers, the treatment of calculus in the 1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica, several proofs that the number of legs on a horse is infinite, a deserved refutation of the ridiculous Euler-Diderot anecdote, the real story of pi and the Indiana Legislature, the reason why Theodorus stopped proving that square roots were irrational when he

Author: Underwood Dudley
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: second, theory, number, elementary
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-09-25
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 048646931X
ISBN-13: 9780486469317

Minimal prerequisites make this text ideal for a first course in number theory. Written in a lively, engaging style by the author of popular mathematics books, it features nearly 1,000 imaginative exercises and problems. Solutions to many of the problems are included, and a teacher’s guide is available. 1978 edition.

Author: Underwood Dudley
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
Keywords: spectrum, wrought, pythagoras, numerology
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0883855240
ISBN-13: 9780883855249

Numerology is the delusion that numbers have power over events. It is a descendent of number mysticism, the belief the contemplation of numbers can give mystical and non-rational insights into life, the universe and everything. 2500 years ago, Pythagoras originated number mysticism, crediting certain numbers with characteristics, through numerology, is a more recent invention that allots numbers, hence characteristics, to individuals. Underwood Dudley outlines here the history of number mysticism and numerology and gives many examples, including biorhythyms, Bible-numberists, pyramidologists a

Author: Underwood Dudley
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
Keywords: spectrum, cranks, mathematical
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1992-09-01
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0883855070
ISBN-13: 9780883855072

A delightful collection of articles about people who claim they have achieved the mathematically impossible (squaring the circle, duplicating the cube); people who think they have done something they have not (proving Fermat’s Last Theorem); people who pray in matrices; people who find the American Revolution ruled by the number 57; people who have in common eccentric mathematical views, some mild (thinking we should count by 12s instead of 10s), some bizarre (thinking that second-order differential equations will solve all problems of economics, politics and philosophy). This is a truly

Author: Underwood Dudley
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
Keywords: spectrum, trisectors
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 1996-09
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0883855143
ISBN-13: 9780883855140

Underwood Dudley is well known for his collection of books on mathematical cranks. Here he offers yet another - angle trisectors. It is impossible to trisect angles with straightedge and compass alone, but many people try and think they have succeeded. This book is about angle trisections and the people who attempt them. According to Dudley: ’Hardly any mathematical training is necessary to read this book. There is a little trigonometry here and there, but it may be safely skipped. There are hardly any equations. There are no exercises and there will be no final examination. The worst v

Authors:John Underwood, Pat Underwood,
Publisher: Sunflower Books
Keywords: landscapes, guide, countryside, madeira, sunflower
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1856912000
ISBN-13: 9781856912006

Winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Guide Award, this guide to Madeira offers over 100 different walks, including five new routes.

Authors:Dr Geoffrey Dudley, Geoffrey Dudley, Jeremy Richards
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: policy, studies, governance, public, routledge, transport, change, lessons, british
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-02-22
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0415169186
ISBN-13: 9780415169189

The tension between policy stability and change is a key political phenomenon, but its dynamics have been little understood. This work examines and explains the dynamics of major policy change by looking at case studies from British Transport policy since 1945.