Introduction | 1 |
PART I: NUMBERS | 7 |
l. 666 and Friends | 9 |
2. Archimedes' Revenge | 26 |
3. Prime Prostitution | 34 |
4. The Cryptic Case of a Swarthy Stranger | 48 |
PART II: SHAPES | 79 |
5. Adventures of an Egg Man | 81 |
6. The Mobius Molecule | 108 |
7. The Case of the Missing | |
Three-Holed Hollow Sphere with One Handle | 122 |
PART III: MACHINES | 135 |
8. Turing's Universal Machine | 139 |
9. Did Willy Loman Die in Vain? | 151 |
10. The Machine Who Would Be King | 167 |
11. A Boy and His Brain Machine | 190 |
PART IV: "ONE MAN, ONE VOTE" | 213 |
12. Is Democracy Mathematically Unsound? | 215 |
13. The Quantum Congress | 249 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 261 |
Index | 263 |