Owen O'Shea

The Magic Numbers of the Professor

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Produktbeschreibung

As Owen O'Shea and the imaginary American Professor, Richard Stein, travel through Ireland, O'Shea notes the Professor's collection of amazing magic numbers in fascinating detail. The new curiosities, among many others, center on Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy; the USA and Ireland; the two World Wars; the King James Version of the Bible, and James Joyce. For those fascinated by games and gambling, a number of curious proposition bets involving dice, darts, and playing cards, and various mathematical puzzles are scattered throughout this singularly entertaining book.

Produktdetails

• Spectrum
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780883855577
• ISBN-10: 0883855577
• Artikelnr.: 22707064

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Martin Gardner
Introduction
1. Digit curiosities
2. The 9/11 atrocities
3. The Professor speaks on the U. S. and Ireland
4. Curiosities in armed conflicts
5. Number and word palindromes
6. The U. S.-Iraq war
7. The number of the Beast
8. Curios of the Lusitania and other curious matters
9. Wordplay and other curiosities
10. New coincidences on Lincoln and Kennedy
11. Dart and card curiosities
12. The Professor gives some number patterns
13. The King James Bible and some currency curiosities
14. The Professor at the university
Index
About the authors.