Northrop E. Riddles in Mathematics. A Book of Paradoxes

D. Van Nostrand Company, 1975. - 271 pages. ISBN: 0882752731Popular interest in mathematics is unquestionably increasing. Perhaps this is because of the fact that mathematics is a tool without which the applied sciences would cease to be sciences. On the other hand, the abstract aspect of mathematics is beginning to attract a large following of people who, weary of the complexities of the human equation in everyday activities, turn in their leisure to the simplicities of the mathematical equation.