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Mathematics is expressed in symbols and this book is a captivating primer in symbolic language. No background in mathematics is needed to appreciate these graceful, self-contained meditations on "Chaos and Polygons," "The House that Geometry Built," "The Logical Lie Detector," and other thought-provoking essays on the appeal of mathematics. Philip J. Davis is Professor of Mathematics at Brown University.Davis, Philip J. is the author of '3.1416 and All That' with ISBN 9780486453330 and ISBN 0486453332.
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