A Contribution to the Amazes of Mathematics
Manuscript Metadata
Resource ID
6995
Access
Open
Contributed by
Frederik Wellmann
date (Robin)
c. 1908
type of material
A. MS.
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~
number
MS0201_076
date (Robin)
c. 1908
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