Augustus De Morgan’s A Budget of Paradoxes is a monument of learned wit — a vast, discursive catalogue of mathematical cranks, amateur cosmologists, perpetual-motion merchants, and circle-squarers whom the great Victorian mathematician skewers with cool, precise, and very funny irony. Volume II continues the parade of self-taught geniuses who were, alas, mostly magnificently wrong.
Dry, erudite, and genuinely hilarious to anyone with an interest in the history of science or the cheerful persistence of human self-delusion, this is a unique and strangely compelling comic masterpiece. Download this free EPUB and take your place among the paradoxers.