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Mathematical Mountaintops. (Books: spheres & cubes).
John L. Casti Mathematical Mountaintops. Oxford University Press, 177 pages, $25
Mathematical problems mostly come in two kinds. There are the old and easy ones, like "What do you get when you multiply six by seven?," whose answers can only excite seven-year-olds and autistic adults. Then there are the problems that interest research mathematicians, whose incomprehensibility begins to fade only after several university degrees in the higher algebra. It is hard to make dinner-party conversation or requests for funding out of a discipline whose very terms are well beyond the reach of ordinary mortals. There are a few mathematical questions that can be understood by ...
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