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The book is presented in a dictionary format. The book is divided into headwords, which, as the title suggests, run from Abracadabra to Zeno's paradoxes.
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The first edition of the book had several errors which were fixed in later editions. Several famous scientists have sent in corrections to the
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Problems and Puzzles mentioned in the book have been discussed and debated several times by several major mathematicians.
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The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes
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The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes
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