David Wells: Games and Mathematics

Cover: 9781107690912 | Games and Mathematics | David Wells | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2012

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Beschreibung

A tour through the fascinating connections between mathematics and games. Rules, tactics and strategy of familiar games such as chess are considered with a mathematical eye; and the author then shows how game playing can inform the thinking of mathematicians themselves.

Über den Autor

David Wells is the author of more than a dozen books on popular mathematics, puzzles and recreations. He has written many articles on mathematics teaching and a secondary mathematics course based on problem-solving. A former British under-21 chess champion, he has also worked as a game inventor and puzzle editor.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I. Mathematical recreations and abstract games: 1. Recreations from Euler to Lucas; 2. Four abstract games; 3. Mathematics and games: mysterious connections; 4. Why chess is not mathematics; 5. Proving versus checking; Part II. Mathematics: game-like, scientific and perceptual: 6. Game-like mathematics; 7. Euclid and the rules of his geometrical game; 8. New concepts and new objects; 9. Convergent and divergent series; 10. Mathematics becomes game-like; 11. Maths as science; 12. Numbers and sequences; 13. Computers and mathematics; 14. Mathematics and the sciences; 15. Minimum paths from Heron to Feynmann; 16. The foundations: perception, imagination and insight; 17. Structure; 18. Hidden structure, common structure; 19. Mathematics and beauty; 20. Origins: formality in the everyday world; Bibliography; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Mathematik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781107690912
ISBN-10:	1107690919
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wells, David
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	David Wells
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.10.2012
Gewicht:	0,379 kg