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Tables of Contents for Littlewood's Miscellany
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Frontispiece
Preface
Foreword
1. Introduction to A Mathematician's Miscellany
2. Mathematics with minimum 'Raw Material'
3. From the mathematical tripos
4. Cross-purposes, unconscious assumptions, howlers, misprints, etc
5. The zoo
6. Ballistics
7. The dilemma of probability theory
8. From Fermat's last theorem to the abolition of capital punishment
9. A mathematical education
10. Review of Ramanujan's collected papers
11. Large numbers
12. Lion and man
13. People
14. Academic life
15. Odds and ends
16. Newton and the attraction of a sphere
17. The discovery of Neptune
18. The Adams-Airy affair
19. The mathematician's art of work.