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- Author: Ian Stewart
- Publisher: Basic Books
- ISBN-10: 0465017754
- ISBN-13: 9780465017751
- Format: 16.1 x 20.8 x 2.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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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: Ian Stewart
- Publisher: Basic Books
- ISBN-10: 0465017754
- ISBN-13: 9780465017751
- Format: 16.1 x 20.8 x 2.4 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
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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