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Professor Stewart S Cabinet Of Mathematical Curiosities
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Author : Ian Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2010-09-03
Professor Stewart S Cabinet Of Mathematical Curiosities written by Ian Stewart and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-03 with Mathematics categories.
School maths is not the interesting part. The real fun is elsewhere. Like a magpie, Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening, entertaining and vexing 'curiosities' of maths over the years... Now, the private collection is displayed in his cabinet. There are some hidden gems of logic, geometry and probability -- like how to extract a cherry from a cocktail glass (harder than you think), a pop up dodecahedron, the real reason why you can't divide anything by zero and some tips for making money by proving the obvious. Scattered among these are keys to unlocking the mysteries of Fermat's last theorem, the Poincaré Conjecture, chaos theory, and the P/NP problem for which a million dollar prize is on offer. There are beguiling secrets about familiar names like Pythagoras or prime numbers, as well as anecdotes about great mathematicians. Pull out the drawers of the Professor's cabinet and who knows what could happen...
Professor Stewart S Cabinet Of Mathematical Curiosities
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Author : Ian Stewart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-01-06
Professor Stewart S Cabinet Of Mathematical Curiosities written by Ian Stewart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-06 with Mathematics categories.
Offers mathematical games, puzzles, and stories featuring geometry, logic, and probability.
Professor Stewart S Incredible Numbers
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Author : Ian Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2015-03-19
Professor Stewart S Incredible Numbers written by Ian Stewart and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-19 with Mathematics categories.
Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1 to 10 to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would span the universe. He looks at every kind of number you can think of -- real, imaginary, rational, irrational, positive and negative -- along with several you might have thought you couldn't think of. He explains the insights of the ancient mathematicians, shows how numbers have evolved through the ages, and reveals the way numerical theory enables everyday life. Under Professor Stewart's guidance you will discover the mathematics of codes, Sudoku, Rubik's Cube, music, primes and pi. You may be surprised to find you live in eleven-dimensional space, that of the twenty-three people on a football pitch two are more likely than not to share the same birthday, and that forty-two is a very interesting number. Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers will delight everyone who loves numbers -- including those who currently think they don't.
Mathematics
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Author : Keith J Devlin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Mathematics written by Keith J Devlin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Mathematics categories.
Presents a survey of advances in mathematics over the past twenty-five years, including such topics as prime numbers, factories, sets, and number systems
What S The Use
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Author : Ian Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2021-08-19
What S The Use written by Ian Stewart and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-19 with Mathematics categories.
'Stewart is Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths' Alex Bellos 'The instructive equivalent of a Michelin-starred tasting menu' Tim Radford Many people think mathematics is useless. They're wrong. In the UK, the 2.8 million people employed in mathematical science occupations contributed £208 billion to the economy in a single year - that's 10 per cent of the workforce contributing 16 per cent of the economy. What's the Use? asks why there is such a vast gulf between public perceptions of mathematics and reality. It shows how mathematics is vital, often in surprising ways, behind the scenes of daily life. How politicians pick their voters. How an absurd little puzzle solved 300 years ago leads to efficient methods for kidney transplants. And how a bizarre, infinitely wiggly curve helps to optimise deliveries to your door.
Professor Stewart S Cabinet Of Mathematical Curiosities
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Author : Ian Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2009-01-06
Professor Stewart S Cabinet Of Mathematical Curiosities written by Ian Stewart and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-06 with Mathematics categories.
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 Stewart's legendary cabinet. Inside, you will find hidden gems of logic, geometry, and probability-like how to extract a cherry from a cocktail glass (harder than you think), a pop-up dodecahedron, and the real reason why you can't divide anything by zero. Scattered among these are keys to Fermat's last theorem, the Poincaréonjecture, chaos theory, and the P=NP problem (you'll win a million dollars if you solve it). You never know what enigmas you'll find in the Stewart cabinet, but they're sure to be clever, mind-expanding, and delightfully fun.
Mathematics Of Life
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Author : Ian Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2011-04-07
Mathematics Of Life written by Ian Stewart and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-07 with Mathematics categories.
A new partnership of biologists and mathematicians is picking apart the hidden complexity of animals and plants to throw fresh light on the behaviour of entire organisms, how they interact and how changes in biological diversity affect the planet's ecological balance. Mathematics offers new and sometimes startling perspectives on evolution and how patterns of inheritance and population work out over time-scales ranging from millions to hundreds of years - as well as what's going on to change us right now. Ian Stewart, in characteristically clear and entertaining fashion, explores these and a whole range of pertinent issues, including how far genes control behaviour and the nature of life itself. He shows how far mathematicians and biologists are succeeding in tackling some of the most difficult scientific problems the human race has ever confronted and where their research is currently taking us.
Concepts Of Modern Mathematics
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Author : Ian Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-05-23
Concepts Of Modern Mathematics written by Ian Stewart and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-23 with Mathematics categories.
In this charming volume, a noted English mathematician uses humor and anecdote to illuminate the concepts of groups, sets, subsets, topology, Boolean algebra, and other mathematical subjects. 200 illustrations.
Do Dice Play God
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Author : Ian Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2019-06-06
Do Dice Play God written by Ian Stewart and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-06 with Mathematics categories.
Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think that we know such as populations or the transit of the planets contain the possibility of error. It's no wonder that, throughout that history, we have attempted to produce rigidly defined areas of uncertainty - we prefer the surprise party to the surprise asteroid. We began our quest to make certain an uncertain world by reading omens in livers, tea leaves, and the stars. However, over the centuries, driven by curiosity, competition, and a desire be better gamblers, pioneering mathematicians and scientists began to reduce wild uncertainties to tame distributions of probability and statistical inferences. But, even as unknown unknowns became known unknowns, our pessimism made us believe that some problems were unsolvable and our intuition misled us. Worse, as we realized how omnipresent and varied uncertainty is, we encountered chaos, quantum mechanics, and the limitations of our predictive power. Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty.