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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Spectrum
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Bibliografija "Spectrum."
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Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Jan 2012). |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""title page ""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""The Mystery of the Four-Leaf Clovers""; ""A Fugue""; ""Tombstone Inscriptions""; ""The Two Lights""; ""MMM""; ""Acquiring Some of the Personal Items for MMM""; ""Difficulty in Explaining Relativity Theory in a Few Words""; ""Difficulty in Obtaining a Cup of Hot Tea""; ""Hail to Thee, Blithe Spirit!""; ""C. D.""; ""Cupid' s Problem""; ""The Lighter Life of an Editor""; ""The Two Kellys""; ""Some Debts""; ""Hypnotic Powers""; ""Founding the Echols Mathematics Club""; ""Meeting Maurice Fréchet"" |
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""Mathematizing the New Mathematics Building""""Finding Some Lost Property Corners""; ""The Tennessee Valley Authority""; ""How I First Met Dr. Einstein""; ""Catching Vibes, and Kindred Matters""; ""A Pair of Unusual Walking Sticks""; ""A New Definition""; ""Dr. Einstein's First Public Address at Princeton""; ""Parting Advice""; ""Two Newspaper Items and a Phone Call""; ""Wherein the Author is Beasted""; ""The Scholar's Creed""; ""The Perfect Game of Solitaire""; ""The Most Seductive Book Ever Written""; ""The Master Geometer""; ""Sandy""; ""The Perfect Parabola""; ""Three Coolidge Remarks"" |
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""Professor Coolidge During Examinations""""Professor Coolidge's Test""; ""Borrowing Lecture Techniques from Admired Professors""; ""My Teaching Assistant Appointment""; ""A Night in the Widener Memorial Library""; ""The Slit in the Wall""; ""Nathan Altshiller Court""; ""An Editorial Comment""; ""Intimations of the Future""; ""A Rival Field""; ""A Chinese Lesson""; ""The Bookbag""; ""Running the Mile in Twenty-one Seconds""; ""Winning the 1992 Pólya Award""; ""A Love Story""; ""Eves' Photo Album""; ""A Condensed Biography of Howard Eves""; ""An Abridged Bibliography of Howard Eves' Works"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Eves, Howard, 1911-2004 -- Anecdotes.
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Eves, Howard, 1911-2004. |
| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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| Subject |
Eves, Howard Whitley, 1911- |
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Mathematics -- Anecdotes.
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Mathematics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Anecdotes.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Eves, Howard Mathematical Reminiscences Washington : Mathematical Association of America,c2014 9780883855355 |
| ISBN |
9780883859650 (electronic book) |
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0883859653 (electronic book) |
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