Strength In Numbers C Book

	Acknowledgments
	Guide to Chapter Order
1	The Many Faces of Mathematics	3
2	The Spell of Cool Numbers	10
3	Hot Numbers	14
4	Don't Do a Number on Me	20
5	Anecdote versus Number	25
6	It Ain't Necessarily So	32
7	The Rapid Idiots	44
8	The Mother of Invention	50
9	What is a Job, Really?	57
10	What's in It for Me?	60
11	The Action Syndrome	71
12	Where Have All the Reforms Gone?	74
13	Some Proposals, Modest and Immodest	94
14	How to Read Mathematics	107
15	You Will Never See a Large Number	112
16	The Car and Two Goats	121
17	Five Things You Can Do with Two Numbers	125
18	Some Sum	136
19	Out of Thin Air	143
20	All There Is to Know about Fractions	148
21	Is Every Number a Fraction?	157
22	The Three Sides of a Right Triangle	166
23	Pi Is a Piece of Cake - or Is It?	173
24	Turning an Equation into a Picture	184
25	Why Negative Times Negative Is Positive	189
26	A Fresh Look at Kindergarten	194
27	Zero over Zero	205
28	How Steep Is a Curve?	210
29	Trying to Find a Curved Area	219
30	Finding a Curved Area	226
31	The Circle and All the Odd Numbers	235
32	One Thought in Parting	245
	Further Reading	249
	Glossary of Symbols	253
	References	255
	Index	265