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Volume 84 - July 2000

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Currency corner: Newton and his predecessors

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84.17 A game with positive and negative numbers

84.46 A product of sines revisited

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Problem Corner

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84.18 An inductive proof of the arithmetic mean — geometric mean inequality

84.47 A product of sines – once again

84.19 Weighted mean in a trapezium

84.48 On the approximation of the lognormal distribution

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The language of physics: the calculus and the development of theoretical physics in Europe, 1750-1914, by Elizabeth Garber. Pp. xix + 399. SFr 118 / DM 138. 1998. ISBN 3-7643-4039-8 (Birkhäuser)

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84.49 A stats-bite: symmetrical confidence intervals are the narrowest

84.20 A formula for integrating inverse functions

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The language of mathematics, by Keith Devlin. Pp. 334. £14.95. 1998. ISBN 0 7167 3379 X (W. H. Freeman).

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Even more decimal points

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84.21 Mathematician versus machine

84.22 On a conjecture of Paul Thompson

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The art of the intelligible: an elementary survey of mathematics in its conceptual development, by John L. Bell. Pp. 246. £30. 1999. ISBN 0 7923 5972 0 (Kluwer Academic Publishers).

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Number: from Ahmes to Cantor, by Midhat Gazalé. Pp. 297. £18.95. 2000. ISBN 0 691 00515 X (Princeton University Press).

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