This Compendium Three of the New Mathematics for the Millions brings together Volumes Eleven to Volumes Fifteen under one cover:
Volume Seventeen: Part One – The Magic of Numbers with Guided Notes
Volume Eighteen: Part Two – The Magic of Numbers with Guided Notes
Volume Nineteen: Part Three – The Magic of Numbers with Guided Notes
Each of these volumes are also available as a separate book in the New Mathematics for the Millions Series.
If I were given a nickel for every time I have recommended E.T. Bell’s book The Magic of Numbers (1946) over the years, to friends and acquaintances, I would have a rather tall stack of nickels.
Even though it is a wonderful read, sadly the book is not widely available and so I have lent my own, well-thumbed through, copy of the 1946 printing of this book to friends and acquaintances enough times to finally sit and transcribe the book to digital format for general use.
To help you the reader to enjoy The Magic of Numbers I have provided Guided Notes for each chapter (I have transcribed it gratis). As a reader you are in fact remunerating me merely for the Guided Notes that I have prepared for you.
This Compendium Five of the New Mathematics for the Millions consists of the entire book The Magic of Numbers, complete with Guided Notes.
Eric Temple Bell (February 7, 1883 – December 21, 1960) was a mathematician and science fiction author born in Scotland who lived in the U.S. for most of his life. He published his non-fiction under his given name and his fiction as John Taine.