How to Cut a Cake

And Other Mathematical Conundrums
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-920590-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 383 g

Welcome back to Ian Stewart's magical world of mathematics! This is a strange world of never-ending chess games, empires on the moon, furious fireflies, and, of course, disputes over how best to cut a cake. Each quirky tale presents a fascinating mathematical puzzle -- challenging, fun, and also introducing the reader to a significant mathematical problem in an engaging and witty way.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stewart, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- 1: Your Half's Bigger Than My Half!

- 2: Repealing the Law of Averages

- 3: Arithmetic and Old Lace

- 4: Paradox Lost

- 5: Tight Tins for Round Sardines

- 6: The Never-Ending Chess Game

- 7: Quods and Quazars

- 8: Zero Knowledge Protocols

- 9: Empires on the Moon

- 10: Empires and Electronics

- 11: Resurrection Shuffle

- 12: Double Bubble, Toil and Trouble

- 13: Crossed Lines in the Brick Factory

- 14: Division Without Envy

- 15: Furiously flashing fireflies

- 16: Why Phone Cords Get Tangled

- 17: Sierpinski's Ubiquitous Gasket

- 18: Defend the Roman empire!

- 19: Triangulation Takeaway

- 20: Easter is a quasicrystal

- Further Reading

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University, and Director of the Mathematics Awareness Centre at Warwick. An active research mathematician, he is also a well-known popularizer of mathematics and related areas of science. In 1995 he was awarded the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award for furthering the public understanding of science; his book Nature's Numbers was shortlisted for the 1996 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books; and he delivered the 1997 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, televised by the BBC. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His many books include Evolving the Alien (with Jack Cohen), The Science of Discworld, What Shape is a Snowflake?, Flatterland, The Magical Maze, and Does God Play Dice?.