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Number of pages
352
Cover
Soft
Year of publication
2010
Publisher
Abrams & Chronicle Books
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Ian Stewart, author of the bestseller "Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities," presents a new and enchanting mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, intellectual tests, and riddles. He combines these with explorations in ancient and modern mathematical thought, delightful mathematical jokes, and questions about the great mathematical challenges of the present and the past. Among a range of hidden and surprising truths about every kind of number from irrational or imaginary to complex or quaternions, we discover: how to organize chaos; how matter balances antimatter; how to turn a sphere inside out (without crumpling it...); why you can't comb a fluffy ball; how to calculate pi by observing the stars. And we gain some fascinating insights into the mathematics of life and the universe. Inspired, enlightening, and endlessly entertaining, this new entertainment from Professor Stewart will enthrall, rejuvenate, and captivate.
Pages: 352, Dimensions: 13x13cm
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