Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures
| AUTHOR | Stewart, Ian |
| PUBLISHER | Basic Books (04/27/2010) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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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.
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ISBN-13:
9780465017751
ISBN-10:
0465017754
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
352
Carton Quantity:
18
Product Dimensions:
6.32 x 0.96 x 8.20 inches
Weight:
0.77 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Price on Product - Canadian,
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Table of Contents,
Ikids,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Mathematics | Reference
Mathematics | Recreations & Games
Mathematics | History & Philosophy
Grade Level:
College Freshman
and up
Dewey Decimal:
510
Library of Congress Control Number:
2010280702
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From the author of "Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Curiosities" comes a new trove of entrancing numbers and delightful mathematical puzzles for adventurous minds. 200 b&w graphs, figures, and illustrations.
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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.
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Author:
Stewart, Ian
Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University in England. His many books include Does God Play Dice?, The collapse of Chaos (with Jack Cohen), Game, Set and Math, and Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer? (with Martin Golubitsky). He contributed to a wide range of newspapers and
magazines, and writes the "Mathematical Recreations" column of Scientific American.
magazines, and writes the "Mathematical Recreations" column of Scientific American.
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