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Title: Mathematics and the Imagination

Authors: Edward Kasner and James Newman

Short Description: A number of chapters covering lots of subjects: counting numbers (including the coining of the word "googol"); $pi$, \pi$,$i$, and$e$; geometries, plane and "fancy" ("Lobachevsky's Eiffel Towers and Riemann's Holland Tunnels"); puzzles; paradoxes; chance and probability; topology ("rubber sheet geometry"); calculus. Very much in the spirit of Martin Gardner columns, but from before they existed (the book was originally published in 1940; Gardner began writing his columns in 1956). You can see a preview at Google books. Which also leads me to Author: Martin Gardner Title: Various Short Description: A joy to read. 1 [made Community Wiki] Title: Mathematics and the Imagination Authors: Edward Kasner and James Newman Short Description: A number of chapters covering lots of subjects: counting numbers (including the coining of the word "googol");$pi$,$i$, and$e\$; geometries, plane and "fancy" ("Lobachevsky's Eiffel Towers and Riemann's Holland Tunnels"); puzzles; paradoxes; chance and probability; topology ("rubber sheet geometry"); calculus. Very much in the spirit of Martin Gardner columns, but from before they existed (the book was originally published in 1940; Gardner began writing his columns in 1956). You can see a preview at Google books.

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Author: Martin Gardner

Title: Various

Short Description: A joy to read.