Ian Stewart: Professor Stewarts Hoard of Mathematical Treasures
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- Kustantaja: Basic Books (AZ)
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780465017751
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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. 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. '