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Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities

By stewart , Ian

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN
9780786727254, 0465017754, 9780465013029, 0465013023, 078672725X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3187189 bytes)
Pages
(x, 310 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
GAMES--Sudoku;Mathematics;MATHEMATICS--Recreations

Description

Acknowledgements; Second Drawer Down; Calculator Curiosity 1; Year Turned Upside Down; Luckless Lovelorn Lilavati; Sixteen Matches; Swallowing Elephants; Magic Circle; Dodgem; Press-the-Digit-ation; Secrets of the Abacus; Redbeard's Treasure; Hexaflexagons; Who Invented the Equals Sign?; Stars and Snips; By the Numbers of Babylon; Magic Hexagons; The Collatz-Syracuse-Ulam Problem; The Jeweller's Dilemma; What Seamus Didn't Know; Why Toast Always Falls Buttered-Side Down; The Buttered Cat Paradox; Lincoln's Dog; Whodunni's Dice; A Flexible Polyhedron; The Bellows Conjecture.;A collection of intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, stories, and factoids that reveal hidden gems of logic, geometry, and probability.

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