A Contribution to the Amazes of Mathematics
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Resource ID
632
Access
Open
Contributed by
Frederik Wellmann
type of material
A. MS.
Category
MATHEMATICS (MS 1-278)
description
Rationale for two card "tricks" [The First (?) and Second Curiosities]. Abstract real (not imaginary) numbers viewed pragmatistically. Cantorian system. Cyclical system of numbers. The Fourth Curiosity. Secundal arithmetic. Reference to Elements of Mathematics (MS. 165), with bitter note on publishers of textbooks.
general index
Cantor Georg, Curiosities (see also Mathematical recreations), Mathematics, recreations of Mathematics, real notation and analysis, "Amazes (Amazements) of Mathematics"', Secundal system of enumeration
pagination
210 pp., most of which are numbered with the numbered pages running as high as p. 164 (many pages missing, however)
Date
1908~
manuscript number
201
publication
n.p.
topic
MATHEMATICS / MATHEMATICAL TEXTBOOKS
manuscript contains non-textual content
no