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THIS is a very entertaining miscellany in which every reader will find something to his taste. Thus we have extracts from the works of sixteenth century mathematicians, still influenced by the methods of scholasticism; part of the debate in the Chamber of Deputies (August, 1835) on tne French jury system, when Arago appealed without effect to the mathematical theory of probabilities; two specimens of circle-squaring (1852, 1855); and so on. Two or three extracts will serve to show how amusing some of these chapters are.
Opinions et Curiosités touchant la Math´ematique.
Deuxième Série. By Georges Maupin. Pp. 332. (Paris: C. Naud, 1902.) Price 5 francs.
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M., G. Opinions et Curiosités touchant la Mathématique . Nature 67, 531–532 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067531a0
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