Game, Set and Math: Enigmas and Conundrums: Dover Classics of Science & Mathematics
Autor Ian Stewarten Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2007
Former columnist for "Scientific American"'s "Mathematical Games" section, Ian Stewart is aprofessor at the University of Warwick and theauthor of "Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into... "and a score of other books of mathematical recreations, popular science, and science fiction. In this collection ofpun-studded fables, he once again exercises his immense talent for transforming complicatedconcepts of modern mathematicsinto stimulating, accessiblefun. Stewart introduces the different kinds of infinity, explains how to build your own virus, explores the brighter ideas of Pascal and Fermat, and even offers a dozen different puzzles for thetwelve days of Christmas."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780486458847
ISBN-10: 0486458849
Pagini: 191
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 192 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Dover Publications
Seria Dover Classics of Science & Mathematics
ISBN-10: 0486458849
Pagini: 191
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 192 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Dover Publications
Seria Dover Classics of Science & Mathematics
Cuprins
1. Mother Worm's Blanket
2. The Drunken Tennis-Player
3. The Infinormatics Laboratory
4. The Autovoracious Ourotorus
5. Fallacy or Ycallaf?
6. Build Your Own Virus
7. Parity Piece
8. Close Encounters of the Fermat Kind
9. Pascal's Fractals
10. The Worm Returns
11. All Parallels Lead to Rome
12. The Twelve Games of Christmas
Notă biografică
Author of Concepts of Modern Mathematics and Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into..., Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick (UK).