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Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities

By Ian Stewart

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
2009
ISBN
0465013023, 9780465013029, 9780786727254
Open Library ID
OL24311936M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3119257 bytes)
Pages
321\321
Scanned
no
Time added
2009-08-06 05:14:26
Библиотека;Досуг;Игрыголоволомки;Математические игры и головоломкизадачки

Description

Knowing that the most exciting math is not taught 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 Poincare 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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