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Number of pages
320
Cover
Soft
Year of publication
2010
Publisher
Abrams & Chronicle Books
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School mathematical content isn’t the most interesting. The real fun lies elsewhere. Like a magnet, Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening, entertaining, and challenging 'paradoxes' of mathematics over the years... Now, the private collection is on display in his cupboard.
There are hidden gems of logic, geometry, and probability - like how to extract a cherry from a cocktail (harder than you think), a pop-up dodecahedron, the real reason you can’t divide anything by zero, and some tips for making money by proving the obvious. Among all these, there are keys to unlock the mysteries of Fermat's Last Theorem, the Poincare Conjecture, chaos theory, and the P/NP problem for which a million-dollar prize is offered. There are magical secrets about well-known names like Pythagoras or prime numbers, as well as anecdotes about great mathematicians. Open the drawers of the professor’s cabinet, and who knows what might happen...
Pages: 320, Year of Publication: 0701, Dimensions: 19.6x19.6cm
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