A Budget of Paradoxes
A Budget of Paradoxes, originally published in 1915, is mathematician Augustus De Morgan's most accessible and entertaining work. Well-known for his wit, De Morgan takes aim at those people he calls paradoxers, which in modern terms would most closely resemble crackpots. Paradoxers, however, are not crazy, necessarily-rather, they hold views wildly outside the accepted sphere. If you believed the world was round when everyone else knew that it was flat, you would be a paradoxer. In this book, De Morgan reviews a number of books from his own library written by such crackpots who claim to have solved a great many of the…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60206-320-4
- EAN: 9781602063204
- Produktnummer: 2962200
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 808 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D4.2 cm 1'203 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 1203
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