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A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I

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A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I

Augustus De Morgan and David Eugene Smith

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Circle squarers, angle trisectors, and inventors of perpetual motion all wrote to Augustus De Morgan, and he kept the letters. His famous budget reviews centuries of mathematical cranks and their books with affection, precision, and devastating wit. Volume one opens the collection, from ancient paradoxes to Victorian mail. The funniest survey of being wrong ever written by a mathematician.

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9 chapters

  1. 1A BUDGET OF PARADOXES
  2. 2Volume I
  3. 3PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  4. 4PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
  5. 5A BUDGET OF PARADOXES
  6. 6INTRODUCTORY.
  7. 7A BUDGET OF PARADOXES.
  8. 8VOLUME I.
  9. 9Notes
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