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• Title:Lion hunting & other mathematical pursuits : a collection of mathematics, verse, and stories / by Ralph P. Boas, Jr. ; Gerald L. Alexanderson, Dale H. Mugler, editors.
  
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• Variant Title:Lion hunting and other mathematical pursuits
  
• Author/Creator:Boas, Ralph P. (Ralph Philip), 1912-1992.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Alexanderson, Gerald L.
  Mugler, Dale H.
  
• Published/Created:[Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, ©1995.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: QA99 .B64 1995
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mathematics--Miscellanea.
  
• Description:xii, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Dolciani mathematical expositions ; no. 15.
  
• Notes:"Ralph P. Boas, Jr. bibliography" : pages [289]-300.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:088385323X
  
• Contents:Autobiographical Essay / Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
  Reminiscences / Frank Smithies, Harold P. Boas, Deborah Tepper Haimo and Philip J. Davis
  1. Lion Hunting
  2. Infinite Series
  3. Recollections and Verse I
  4. Mean Value Theorem
  5. Recollections and Verse II
  6. Indeterminate Forms
  7. Recollections and Verse III
  8. Complex Variables
  9. Recollections and Verse IV
  10. Inverse Functions
  11. Recollections and Verse V
  12. Bourbaki
  13. Teaching of Mathematics
  14. Polynomials
  15. Literature and Mathematics
  16. Reviews and Miscellaneous Articles
  Reminiscences by Students / Dale H. Mugler, Carl L. Prather and Antoinette M. Trembinska
  Ralph P. Boas, Jr. - Bibliography.