Mathsemantics : making numbers talk sense / by Edward MacNeal.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Viking, 1994Description: x, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0670853909 (hbk)Subject(s): Mathematics | SemanticsDDC classification: 370.15Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | Namal Library Social Sciences(hall 2) | 370.15 MAC-M 1994 6682 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 0006682 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-296) and index.
1. A fruitful start
2. The challenge of togetherness
3. Problems with names
4. The magic of names
5. The magic of undone
6. More problems with names
7. Three domains
8. Grasping nothing
9. Divorce
10. Writer's cramp
11. Yes, but why does 2 time 2 equals 4?
12. Impurities
13. Roundly speaking
14. A significant number
15. Space rates
16. Caring for symbol systems
17. Sorry to be late
18. Time
19. One for all
20. Estimating
21. On the fence
22. Percentages
23. Surveys
24. The bug in the bottle
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