Beskrivning
Beskrivning
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 andmodern mathematical thought, appallingly hilarious mathematical jokes,and enquiries into the great mathematical challenges of the present andpast. Amongst a host of arcane and astonishing facts about every kind ofnumber from irrational or imaginary to complex or cuneiform, we findout: how to organise chaos; how matter balances anti-matter; how to turna sphere inside out (without creasing it…); why you can’t comb ahairy ball; how to calculate pi by observing the stars. And we get sometantalising 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.(Bookdata)
