Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities (eBook)

Stewart Ian Stewart (Autor)

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2010
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-84765-128-0 (ISBN)

Infos

School maths is not the interesting part. The real fun is elsewhere. Like a magpie, Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening, entertaining and vexing 'curiosities' of maths over the years... Now, the private collection is displayed in his cabinet. There are some 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, the real reason why you can't divide anything by zero and some tips for making money by proving the obvious. Scattered among these are keys to unlocking the mysteries of Fermat's last theorem, the Poincare Conjecture, chaos theory, and the P/NP problem for which a million dollar prize is on offer. There are beguiling secrets about familiar names like Pythagoras or prime numbers, as well as anecdotes about great mathematicians. Pull out the drawers of the Professor's cabinet and who knows what could happen...

Rezensionen

Stewart has a genius for explanation ... Find a comfortable chair for some holiday puzzling: mathematics doesn't come more entertaining than this.

You don't need to be a maths guru . . . to enjoy his 'curiosities'

'Stewart has served up the instructive equivalent of a Michelin-starred tasting menu, or perhaps a smorgasbord of appetisers. And of course, appetisers are designed to give you an appetite for more.'

A dizzying new book

The book's goofy and unabashed enthusiasm will charm any interested teenager

interesting and illuminating...

This is a superb Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities that deserves a place with the classics of the genre.

This is not pure maths. It is maths contaminated with whit, wisdom, and wonder.Ian really is unsurpassed as raconteur of the world of numbers. He guides us on a mind-boggling journey from the ultra trivial to the profound. Thoroughly entertaining.

There is plenty here for the curious newcomer to enjoy

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.9.2010
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Mathematische Spiele und Unterhaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: discworld • Incredible Numbers by Professor Ian Stewart • Mathematics Of Life • Maths • Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities • Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries • Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures • Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers • Puzzles • Seventeen Equations that Changed the World • Terry Pratchett • The Great Mathematical Problems
• ISBN-10: 1-84765-128-3 / 1847651283
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84765-128-0 / 9781847651280