Memorabilia Mathematica, or the Philomath's Quotation Book

Abstract

PROF. MORITZ has brought together more than two thousand passages from the writings of mathematicians, philosophers, and others, and has grouped them under twenty heads, as well as indexed them under nearly seven hundred topics. Among the subjects of the groups of passages which make up the chapters of the book are:— the object, nature, value, and teaching of mathematics; study and research; persons and anecdotes; logic, philosophy, and science in relation to mathematics; arithmetic; algebra; geometry; the calculus and allied topics; concepts of time and space; paradoxes and curiosities. All the passages are in English, having been translated when the original extracts were in other languages. Full references are given, so that the originals can be consulted by the inquiring student when desired.w

Memorabilia Mathematica, or the Philomath's Quotation Book.

By Prof. R. E. Moritz. Pp. vii + 410. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914.) Price 12s. 6d. net.