Ian Stewart

Game Set and Math

Enigmas and Conundrums

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Twelve essays take a playful approach to mathematics, investigating the topology of a blanket, the odds of beating a superior tennis player, and how to distinguish between fact and fallacy.

Produktdetails

• Dover Books on Mathema 1.4tics
• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 192mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 260g
• ISBN-13: 9780486458847
• ISBN-10: 0486458849
• Artikelnr.: 22530685

Autorenporträt

Author of Concepts of Modern Mathematics and Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into..., Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick (UK).

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Inhaltsangabe

1. Mother Worm's Blanket 2. The Drunken Tennis-Player 3. The Infinormatics
Laboratory 4. The Autovoracious Ourotorus 5. Fallacy or Ycallaf? 6. Build
Your Own Virus 7. Parity Piece 8. Close Encounters of the Fermat Kind 9.
Pascal's Fractals 10. The Worm Returns 11. All Parallels Lead to Rome 12.
The Twelve Games of Christmas