Math Hysteria

Fun and Games with Mathematics
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-861336-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

Welcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics! In Math Hysteria, Professor Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale: Counting the Cattle of the Sun; The Great Drain Robbery; and Preposterous Piratical Predicaments; to name but a few. Along the way, we also meet many curious characters: in short, these stories are engaging, challenging, and lots of fun!

Zielgruppe

Anyone interested in mathematical problems - students, professionals, and the general reader

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stewart, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Populäre Darstellungen der Mathematik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- 1: I know that you know that.

- 2: Domino theories

- 3: Turning the tables

- 4: The anthropomurphic principle

- 5: Counting the cattle of the sun

- 6: The great drain robbery

- 7: Two-way jigsaw puzzles

- 8: Tales of a neglected number

- 9: Is Monopoly fair?

- 10: Monopoly revisited

- 11: A guide to computer dating

- 12: Dividing the spoils

- 13: Squaring the square

- 14: The bellows conjecture

- 15: Purposefully piling pyramids

- 16: Be a dots-and-boxes grandmaster

- 17: Choosily chomping chocolate

- 18: Shedding a little darkness

- 19: Preposterous piratical predicaments

- 20: Million-dollar minesweeper

- Further reading

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University. 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. His many books include From Here to Infinity: a guide to today's mathematics, The Science of Discworld and The Science of Discworld II, What Shape is a Snowflake? and Flatterland.