Littlewood’s Miscellany
Littlewood’s Miscellany by John Edensor Littlewood, published by Cambridge University Press in October 1986, is a revised edition comprising 200 pages in English. This work presents a collection of Professor Littlewood’s earlier writings alongside new material he gathered after the release of A Mathematician’s Miscellany. It offers insights into academic life at Cambridge, particularly at Trinity College, through the lens of one of its prominent figures, showcasing his experiences and reflections on both life and mathematics.
Readers will find a blend of amusing anecdotes and mathematical discussions, all conveyed in Littlewood’s distinctive, aphoristic style. The book is accessible to the general reader, ensuring that most will have no difficulty engaging with the mathematical content. The new material has been curated by Béla Bollobás, who also provides a foreword based on a talk he delivered to the British Society for the History of Mathematics during Littlewood’s centenary. This edition invites readers to explore the intersection of personal narrative and mathematical thought.
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Littlewood’s Miscellany, which includes most of the earlier work as well as much of the material Professor Littlewood collected after the publication of A Mathematician’s Miscellany, allows us to see academic life in Cambridge, especially in Trinity College, through the eyes of one of its greatest figures. The joy that Professor Littlewood found in life and mathematics is reflected in the many amusing anecdotes about his contemporaries, written in his pungent, aphoristic style. The general reader should, in most instances, have no trouble following the mathematical passages. For this publication, the new material has been prepared by Béla Bollobás; his foreword is based on a talk he gave to the British Society for the History of Mathematics on the occasion of Littlewood’s centenary.
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