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Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures
Ian Stewart
Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures
Ian Stewart
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.
Media | Boeken Paperback Book (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug) |
Vrijgegeven | 27 april 2010 |
ISBN13 | 9780465017751 |
Uitgevers | Basic Books |
Pagina's | 352 |
Afmetingen | 158 × 24 × 205 mm · 349 g |
Taal en grammatica | Engels |
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