Game Set and Math

Enigmas and Conundrums

Ian Stewart (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2007
Dover Publications Inc. (Verlag)
978-0-486-45884-7 (ISBN)

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Twelve essays take a playful approach to mathematics, investigating the topology of a blanket, the odds of beating a superior tennis player, and how to distinguish between fact and fallacy.

These pun-studded fables by a popular science writer make complicated mathematical concepts accessible and fun. Twelve essays take a playful approach to mathematics, investigating the topology of a warm blanket, the odds of beating a superior tennis player, and how to distinguish between fact and fallacy. 1991 edition.

1. Mother Worm's Blanket
2. The Drunken Tennis-Player
3. The Infinormatics Laboratory
4. The Autovoracious Ourotorus
5. Fallacy or Ycallaf?
6. Build Your Own Virus
7. Parity Piece
8. Close Encounters of the Fermat Kind
9. Pascal's Fractals
10. The Worm Returns
11. All Parallels Lead to Rome
12. The Twelve Games of Christmas

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.7.2007
Reihe/Serie	Dover Books on Mathema 1.4tics
Sprache	englisch
Maße	10 x 215 mm
Gewicht	224 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Logik / Mengenlehre
ISBN-10	0-486-45884-9 / 0486458849
ISBN-13	978-0-486-45884-7 / 9780486458847
Zustand	Neuware