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Math Hysteria: Fun and games with mathematics de Ian Stewart

Math Hysteria: Fun and games with mathematics

Autor Ian Stewart
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 mai 2004
Welcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics! In Math Hysteria, Professor Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale: Counting the Cattle of the Sun; The Great Drain Robbery; and Preposterous Piratical Predicaments; to name but a few. Along the way, we also meet many curious characters: in short, these stories are engaging, challenging, and lots of fun!
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198613367
ISBN-10: 0198613369
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: numerous figures and cartoons
Dimensiuni: 157 x 233 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

In Math Hysteria, Professor Stewart presents us with a wealth of intriguing, challenging, and fun puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale.

Notă biografică

Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University. An active research mathematician, he is also a well-known popularizer of mathematics and related areas of science. In 1995 he was awarded the Royal Society's Michael Faraday award for furthering the public understanding of science; his book Nature's Numbers was shortlisted for the 1996 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books; and he delivered the 1997 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, televised by the BBC. His many books include From Here to Infinity: a guide to today's mathematics, The Science of Discworld and The Science of Discworld II, What Shape is a Snowflake? and Flatterland.

Cuprins

  • Preface
  • 1: I know that you know that . . .
  • 2: Domino theories
  • 3: Turning the tables
  • 4: The anthropomurphic principle
  • 5: Counting the cattle of the sun
  • 6: The great drain robbery
  • 7: Two-way jigsaw puzzles
  • 8: Tales of a neglected number
  • 9: Is Monopoly fair?
  • 10: Monopoly revisited
  • 11: A guide to computer dating
  • 12: Dividing the spoils
  • 13: Squaring the square
  • 14: The bellows conjecture
  • 15: Purposefully piling pyramids
  • 16: Be a dots-and-boxes grandmaster
  • 17: Choosily chomping chocolate
  • 18: Shedding a little darkness
  • 19: Preposterous piratical predicaments
  • 20: Million-dollar minesweeper
  • Further reading