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How to Cut a Cake
And Other Mathematical Conundrums
Taschenbuch von Ian Stewart
Sprache: Englisch

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Welcome back to Ian Stewart's magical world of mathematics! Here are twenty more curious puzzles and fantastical mathematical stories from one of the world's most popular and accessible writers on 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 chapter--with titles such as, "How to Play Poker By Post" and "Repealing the Law of Averages"--presents a fascinating mathematical puzzle that is challenging, fun, and introduces the reader to a significant mathematical problem in an engaging and witty way. Illustrated with clever and quirky cartoons, each tale will delight those who love puzzles and mathematical conundrums.
Welcome back to Ian Stewart's magical world of mathematics! Here are twenty more curious puzzles and fantastical mathematical stories from one of the world's most popular and accessible writers on 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 chapter--with titles such as, "How to Play Poker By Post" and "Repealing the Law of Averages"--presents a fascinating mathematical puzzle that is challenging, fun, and introduces the reader to a significant mathematical problem in an engaging and witty way. Illustrated with clever and quirky cartoons, each tale will delight those who love puzzles and mathematical conundrums.
Über den Autor
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? .
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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Genre: Mathematik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199205905
ISBN-10: 0199205906
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stewart, Ian
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 234 x 156 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Ian Stewart
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.10.2006
Gewicht: 0,383 kg
Artikel-ID: 102215609
Über den Autor
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? .
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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Genre: Mathematik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199205905
ISBN-10: 0199205906
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stewart, Ian
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 234 x 156 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Ian Stewart
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.10.2006
Gewicht: 0,383 kg
Artikel-ID: 102215609
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