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Partial table of contents: ABOUT MATHEMATICS. The Many Faces of Mathematics. The Spell of Cool Numbers. Don't Do a Number on Me. It Ain't Necessarily So. The Mother of Invention. Some Proposals, Modest and Immodest. FROM HIGH SCHOOL TO KINDERGARTEN. You Will Never See a Large Number. Five Things You Can Do with Two Numbers. Out of Thin Air. The Three Sides of a Right Triangle. Turning an Eguation into a Picture. Why Negative Times Negative Is Positive. CLOSER AND CLOSER. Zero over Zero. Trying to Find a Curved Area. Finding a Curved Area. One Thought in Parting. Further Reading. Glossary of Symbols. References. Index.

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