Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
Autor Ian Stewarten Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 ian 2009
Knowing
that
the
most
exciting
math
isnottaught
in
school,
Professor
Ian
Stewart
has
spent
years
filling
his
cabinet
with
intriguing
mathematical
games,
puzzles,
stories,
and
factoids
intended
for
the
adventurous
mind.
This
book
reveals
the
most
exhilarating
oddities
from
Professor
Stewart's
legendary
cabinet.
Inside,
you
will
find
hidden
gems
of
logic,
geometry,
and
probability-like
how
to
extract
a
cherry
from
a
cocktail
glass
(harder
than
you
think),
a
pop-up
dodecahedron,
and
the
real
reason
why
you
can't
divide
anything
by
zero.
Scattered
among
these
are
keys
to
Fermat's
last
theorem,
the
Poincaré
conjecture,
chaos
theory,
and
the
P=NP
problem
(you'll
win
a
million
dollars
if
you
solve
it).
You
never
know
what
enigmas
you'll
find
in
the
Stewart
cabinet,
but
they're
sure
to
be
clever,
mind-expanding,
and
delightfully
fun.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780465013029
ISBN-10: 0465013023
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 0465013023
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
Notă biografică
Ian
Stewartis
Professor
of
Mathematics
at
the
University
of
Warwick.
He
has
written
over
seventy
books,
many
of
which
are
popular
accounts
of
science
and
mathematics.
His
writing
has
appeared
inNew
Scientist,Discover,Scientific
American,
and
many
newspapers
in
the
United
States
and
the
United
Kingdom.
He
lives
in
Coventry,
England.
Recenzii
"[Armchair
mathematicians]
are
certain
to
find
pleasure
in
this
cornucopia
of
puzzles,
brainteasers,
and
digressions....
The
ideal
book
for
dispelling
the
supposed
drudgery
of
mathematics
with
its
real
magic."—Booklist
"Stewart has a genius for explanation that allows details of the Poincaré conjecture and Riemann hypothesis to sit happily alongside a quip about a chicken crossing a Möbius strip.... Mathematics doesn't come more entertaining than this."—New Scientist
"The exciting side of math--puzzles, games and thrilling oddities."—
"What positive integer is equal to its own Scrabble score when spelled out in full? Stewart...offers this and a hodgepodge of other puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, tricks, facts and jokes, which he accurately calls 'curiosities.'."—Science News
"Open one of the 179 'drawers' in Professor Stewart's cabinet, and you might find just a one-liner...or a seven-page essay on Fermat's last theorem.... The book can be devoured in one giant gulp or savored, one curiosity at a time."—IEEE Spectrum
"Stewart has a genius for explanation that allows details of the Poincaré conjecture and Riemann hypothesis to sit happily alongside a quip about a chicken crossing a Möbius strip.... Mathematics doesn't come more entertaining than this."—New Scientist
"The exciting side of math--puzzles, games and thrilling oddities."—
Chicago
Tribune
"What positive integer is equal to its own Scrabble score when spelled out in full? Stewart...offers this and a hodgepodge of other puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, tricks, facts and jokes, which he accurately calls 'curiosities.'."—Science News
"Open one of the 179 'drawers' in Professor Stewart's cabinet, and you might find just a one-liner...or a seven-page essay on Fermat's last theorem.... The book can be devoured in one giant gulp or savored, one curiosity at a time."—IEEE Spectrum