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Professor Stewart’s Hoard of Mathematical Treasures

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Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern mathematical thought, appallingly hilarious mathematical jokes, and enquiries into the great mathematical challenges of the present and past. Amongst a host of arcane and astonishing facts about every kind of number from irrational or imaginary to complex or cuneiform, we find out: how to organise chaos; how matter balances anti-matter; how to turn a sphere inside out (without creasing it...); why you can't comb a hairy ball; how to calculate pi by observing the stars. And we get some tantalising glimpses of the maths of life and the universe.Mind-stretching, enlightening and endlessly amusing, Professor Stewart's new entertainment will stimulate, delight, and enthral.

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Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern mathematical thought, appallingly hilarious mathematical jokes, and enquiries into the great mathematical challenges of the present and past. Amongst a host of arcane and astonishing facts about every kind of number from irrational or imaginary to complex or cuneiform, we find out: how to organise chaos; how matter balances anti-matter; how to turn a sphere inside out (without creasing it...); why you can't comb a hairy ball; how to calculate pi by observing the stars. And we get some tantalising glimpses of the maths of life and the universe.Mind-stretching, enlightening and endlessly amusing, Professor Stewart's new entertainment will stimulate, delight, and enthral.

9781846683466

Stewart, Ian

Incredible Numbers by Professor Ian Stewart; Mathematics Of Life; Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities; Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries; Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures; Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers; Seventeen Equations that Changed the World; The Great Mathematical Problems; Terry Pratchett; Discworld; Maths; puzzles

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Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern mathematical thought, appallingly hilarious mathematical jokes, and enquiries into the great mathematical challenges of the present and past. Amongst a host of arcane and astonishing facts about every kind of number from irrational or imaginary to complex or cuneiform, we find out: how to organise chaos; how matter balances anti-matter; how to turn a sphere inside out (without creasing it...); why you can't comb a hairy ball; how to calculate pi by observing the stars. And we get some tantalising glimpses of the maths of life and the universe.Mind-stretching, enlightening and endlessly amusing, Professor Stewart's new entertainment will stimulate, delight, and enthral.

Sinopsis del producto

Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern mathematical thought, appallingly hilarious mathematical jokes, and enquiries into the great mathematical challenges of the present and past. Amongst a host of arcane and astonishing facts about every kind of number from irrational or imaginary to complex or cuneiform, we find out: how to organise chaos; how matter balances anti-matter; how to turn a sphere inside out (without creasing it...); why you can't comb a hairy ball; how to calculate pi by observing the stars. And we get some tantalising glimpses of the maths of life and the universe.Mind-stretching, enlightening and endlessly amusing, Professor Stewart's new entertainment will stimulate, delight, and enthral.

9781846683466

Stewart, Ian

Incredible Numbers by Professor Ian Stewart; Mathematics Of Life; Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities; Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries; Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures; Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers; Seventeen Equations that Changed the World; The Great Mathematical Problems; Terry Pratchett; Discworld; Maths; puzzles

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Incredible Numbers by Professor Ian Stewart;Mathematics Of Life;Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities;Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries;Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures;Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers;Seventeen Equations that Changed the World;The Great Mathematical Problems;Terry Pratchett;Discworld;Maths;puzzles

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Profile Books
04/11/2010
130130 X 416416 X 112112
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ISBN 9781846683466

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