Book:David Wells/You Are a Mathematician

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David Wells: You Are a Mathematician

Published $\text {1995}$, Penguin

ISBN 0-14-017480-X


Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
$\ \ 1 \quad$ The hidden world of triangles
$\ \ 2 \quad$ Numbers and patterns
$\ \ 3 \quad$ Mathematics as science
$\ \ 4 \quad$ The games of mathematics
$\ \ 5 \quad$ Creating new mathematical games
$\ \ 6 \quad$ Perception and imagination
$\ \ 7 \quad$ Likeness and analogy
$\ \ 8 \quad$ Certainty, proof and illumination
$\ \ 9 \quad$ Mathematics in science: searching for the truth
$10 \quad$ Mathematics in science: approximate models
$11 \quad$ The enjoyment of mathematics
$12 \quad$ A miniature world and a long journey
$13 \quad$ A mathematical adventure
$14 \quad$ Index