Professor Stewart's hoard of mathematical treasures / Ian Stewart.
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TextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, 2010.Description: x, 339 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780465017751
- 0465017754
- 9781846682926
- 1846682924
- Hoard of mathematical treasures
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Opening another drawer in his Cabinet of Curiosities, renowned mathematics professor Ian Stewart presents a new medley of games, paradoxes, and riddles in Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures . With wit and aplomb, Stewart mingles casual puzzles with grander forays into ancient and modern mathematical thought.
Amongst a host of arcane and astonishing facts about every kind of number from irrational and imaginary to complex and cuneiform, we learn: How to organize chaos How matter balances anti-matter How to turn a sphere inside out (without creasing it) How to calculate pi by observing the stars . . . and why you can't comb a hairy ball.
Along the way Stewart offers the reader tantalizing glimpses of the mathematics underlying life and the universe. Mind-stretching, enlightening, and endlessly amusing, Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures will stimulate, delight, and enthrall.
Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2009.
Offers mathematical games, puzzles, and stories featuring geometry, logic, and probability.