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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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? .
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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