Knowing that the most exciting math is not taught in school,
Professor Ian Stewart has spent years filling his cabinet with
intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, stories, and factoids
intended for the adventurous mind. This book reveals the most
exhilarating oddities from Professor Stewarts legendary cabinet.
Inside, you will find hidden gems of logic, geometry, and
probabilitylike how to extract a cherry from a cocktail glass
harder than you think, a pop-up dodecahedron, and the real reason
why you cant divide anything by zero. Scattered among these are
keys to Fermats last theorem, the Poincar conjecture, chaos theory,
and the P=NP problem youll win a million dollars if you solve it.
You never know what enigmas youll find in the Stewart cabinet, but
theyre sure to be clever, mind-expanding, and delightfully fun.
關於作者:
Professor Stewart is best known for making Mathematics
accessible and popular. He was awarded the Royal Society''s Michael
Faraday Medal for furthering the public understanding of science.
His many popular science books include Does God Play Dice?, Life''s
Other Secrets and Flatterland. He is the mathematics consultant for
the New Scientist and is a Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Warwick. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable
edition of this title.