Strength in Numbers

Acknowledgments
Guide to Chapter Order

PART ONE About Mathemtics

1. The Many Faces of Mathematics
2. The Spell of Cool Numbers
3. Hot Numbers
4. Don't Do a Number on Me
5. Anecdote versus Number
6. It Ain't Necessarity So
7. The Rapid Idiots
8. The Mother of Invention
9. What Is a Job, Really?
10. What's in It for Me?
11. The Action Syndrome
12. Where Have All the Reforms Gone?
13. Some Proposals, Modest and Immodest

PART TWO From High School to Kindergarten

14. How to Read Mathematics
15. You Wilt Never See a Large Number
16. The Car and Two Goats
17. Five Things You Can Do with Two Numbers
18. Some Sum
19. Out of Thin Air
20. All There Is to Know about Fractions
21. Is Every Number a Fraction?
22. The Three Sides of a Right Triangle
23. Pi Is a Piece of Cake-or Is It?
24. Turning an Equation into a Picture
25. Why Negative Times Negative Is Positive
26. A fresh Look at Kindergarten

PART THREE Closer and Closer

27. Zero over Zero
28. How Steep Is a Curve?
29. Trying to find a Curved Area
30. Finding a Curved Area
31. The Circle and All the Odd Numbers
32. One Thought in Parting

Further Reading
Glossary of Symbols
References
Index