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Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures
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By Ian Stewart
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Amongst a host of arcane and astonishing facts about every kind of number from irrational and imaginary to complex and cuneiform, we learn:
- How to organize chaos
- How matter balances anti-matter
- How to turn a sphere inside out (without creasing it)
- How to calculate pi by observing the stars
- . . . and why you can’t comb a hairy ball.
Along the way Stewart offers the reader tantalizing glimpses of the mathematics underlying life and the universe. Mind-stretching, enlightening, and endlessly amusing, Professor Stewart’s Hoard of Mathematical Treasures will stimulate, delight, and enthrall.
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- On Sale
- Apr 27, 2010
- Page Count
- 352 pages
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780465017751
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