Volume 34, Issue 4, December 2012

ISSN: 0343-6993 (Print) 1866-7414 (Online)

In this issue (19 articles)

  1. Note

    Euler’s Wonderful Insight

    Paul Levrie Page 1
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    Equivalency of Cauchy-Schwarz and Bessel Inequalities

    Jamal Rooin, Morteza Bayat Pages 2-3
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    N.G. de Bruijn (1918–2012) and his Road to Automath, the Earliest Proof Checker

    Francien Dechesne, Rob Nederpelt Pages 4-11
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    Mathematically Bent

    Letter of Recommendation

    Colin Adams Pages 12-14
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    Lost in Enumeration: Leonardo da Vinci’s Slip-Ups in Arithmetic and Mechanics

    Dirk Huylebrouck Pages 15-20
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    Viewpoint

    Ugly Mathematics: Why Do Mathematicians Dislike Computer-Assisted Proofs?

    Ulianov Montaño Pages 21-28
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    Years Ago

    Mathematics in Wartime: Private Reflections of Clifford Truesdell

    David E. Rowe Pages 29-39
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    Adam Adamandy Kochański’s Approximations of π: Reconstruction of the Algorithm

    Henryk Fukś Pages 40-45
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    Mathematical Communities

    The Mathematics of Mathematics Houses (The Snaky Connection)

    Omid Ali Shahny Karamzadeh Pages 46-52
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    The Mathematical Tourist

    Tourist Anecdotes

    Dirk Huylebrouck Pages 53-55
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    Mathematical Entertainments

    3D Printing for Mathematical Visualisation

    Henry Segerman Pages 56-62
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    The Equiangular Compass

    P. Milici, R. Dawson Pages 63-67
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    Reviews

    Pythagoras and Renaissance Europe: Finding Heaven by Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier

    Mark A. Peterson Pages 68-70
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    Reviews

    The Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti by Kim Williams, Lionel March, and Stephen R. Wassell (eds.)

    Brian Rotman Pages 71-72
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    Book Reviews

    The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder

    Andrew J. Simoson Pages 73-74
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    The Shape of Inner Space by S. T. Yau and S. Nadis

    Melanie Becker Pages 75-76
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  17. Reviews

    Roots of Modern Technology: An Elegant Survey of the Basic Mathematical and Scientific Concepts by Siegfried Wendt

    Florin Diacu Page 77
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    A Mathematician Comes of Age by Steven G. Krantz

    Timo Tossavainen Pages 78-79
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  19. Stamp Corner

    Early Greek Mathematics

    Robin Wilson Page 80
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