Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
por Basic Books
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$21.99
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$21.99
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$21.99
$21.99
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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 Poincaréonjecture, 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.
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 Poincaréonjecture, 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.
PUBLISHER:
Basic Books
ISBN-10:
0465013023
ISBN-13:
9780465013029
BINDING:
Paperback / softback
BISAC:
Mathematics
PUBLICATION YEAR:
2009
NUMBER OF PAGES:
320
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
8.25(H) x 5.50(W) x 0.75(D)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
General / Adult
LANGUAGE:
English