A mathematician's miscellany/
John E. Littlewood.
- London: Methuen, [1953].
- 136 p.: diagrs., 21 cm.
Mathematics with minimum raw material.--From the mathematical tripos.--Cross-purposes, unconscious assumptions, howlers, misprints, etc.--The zoo.--Ballistics.--The dilemma of probability theory.--From Fermat's last theorem to the abolition of capital punishment.--A mathematical education.--Review of Ramanujan's collected papers.--Three reviews.--Newton and the attraction of a sphere.--Large numbers.--The discovery of Neptune.--The Adams-Airy affair.--ŞLion and man.½