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The World of Mathematics, Volume 2 (1956)

by James R. Newman

Other authors: Daniel Bernoulli (Contributor), Edwin G. Boring (Contributor), C. Vernon Boys (Contributor), William Henry Bragg (Contributor), Lloyd A. Brown (Contributor)29 more, Richard Courant (Contributor), Augustin Cournot (Contributor), Clement V. Durell (Contributor), Arthur Stanley Eddington (Contributor), Galileo Galilei (Contributor), Francis Galton (Contributor), J. B. S. Haldane (Contributor), Werner Heisenberg (Contributor), Leonid Hurwicz (Contributor), Bernard Jaffe (Contributor), William Stanley Jevons (Contributor), Harold Spencer Jones (Contributor), Abraham Kaplan (Contributor), John Maynard Keynes (Contributor), Pierre Simon de Laplace (Contributor), Philippe Le Corbeiller (Contributor), T. R. Malthus (Contributor), Gregor Mendel (Contributor), Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev (Contributor), Karl Menger (Contributor), H. G. J. Moseley (Contributor), Ernest Nagel (Contributor), Charles Sanders Pierce (Contributor), Henri Poincaré (Contributor), Lewis Fry Richardson (Contributor), Herbert Robbins (Contributor), Erwin Schrödinger (Contributor), D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (Contributor), Steven Vajda (Contributor)

Series: The World of Mathematics (2)

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Vol. 2 of a monumental 4-volume set covers mathematics and the physical world, mathematics and social science, and the laws of chance, with non-technical essays by eminent mathematicians, economists, scientists, and others.
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