A delightful collection of articles about people who claim they have achieved the mathematically impossible (squaring the circle, duplicating the cube); people

A delightful collection of articles about people who claim they have achieved the mathematically impossible (squaring the circle, duplicating the cube); people

Underwood Dudley is well known for his collection of books on mathematical cranks. Here he offers yet another--angle trisectors. It is impossible to trisect ang

A new approach to the foundations of single variable calculus, based on the introductory course taught at Caltech In mathematics, "cranks" are people who insist

Though it incorporates much new material, this new edition preserves the general character of the book in providing a collection of solutions of the equations o