A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II
A Budget of Paradoxes is Augustus De Morgan's catalog of cranks, circle-squarers and visionaries, assembled from the notices he wrote for the Athenaeum over many years and published after his death by his widow in 1872. This second volume of the two-volume edition continues the parade: men who proved the moon does not rotate, inventors of perpetual motion, a new astronomy from a Mrs. Cottle, the Moon Hoax, the Neptune controversy, spiritualism, the number of the beast, and De Morgan's long duel with James Smith, who insisted that pi equals 3 1/8. Behind the mockery sits a serious mathematician explaining why these arguments fail, with digressions on decimal coinage, phonetic spelling and the history of mathematics. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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