Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical TreasuresBasic Books, 27 avr. 2010 - 352 pages Opening another drawer in his Cabinet of Curiosities, renowned mathematics professor Ian Stewart presents a new medley of games, paradoxes, and riddles in Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures. With wit and aplomb, Stewart mingles casual puzzles with grander forays into ancient and modern mathematical thought. Amongst a host of arcane and astonishing facts about every kind of number from irrational and imaginary to complex and cuneiform, we learn:
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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| 8 | |
Sixteen Matches | 9 |
Magic Circle | 10 |
PresstheDigitation | 11 |
Secrets of the Abacus | 13 |
Hexaflexagons | 18 |
Pieces of Five | 153 |
Pi in the Sky | 154 |
The Curious Incident of the Dog | 155 |
A Weird Fact about Egyptian Fractions | 157 |
Serpent of Perpetual Darkness | 158 |
What Are the Odds? | 159 |
A Potted History of Mathematics | 160 |
The Shortest Mathematical Joke Ever | 163 |
Who Invented the Equals Sign? | 20 |
By the Numbers of Babylon | 21 |
Magic Hexagons | 25 |
The CollatzSyracuseUlam Problem | 26 |
The Jewellers Dilemma | 29 |
What Seamus Didnt Know | 30 |
Why Toast Always Falls ButteredSide Down | 31 |
Lincolns Dog | 32 |
Whodunnis Dice | 33 |
But What About Concertinas? | 34 |
The Bellows Conjecture | 35 |
Digital Cubes | 38 |
What Is the Area of an Ostrich Egg? | 40 |
Order into Chaos | 43 |
Big Numbers | 44 |
The Drowning Mathematician | 49 |
The Hairy Ball Theorem | 52 |
Cups and Downs | 53 |
Secret Codes | 56 |
When 2+ 2 0 | 59 |
Secret Codes That Can Be Made Public | 62 |
Calendar Magic | 66 |
Mathematical Cats | 67 |
The Rule of Eleven | 70 |
Common Knowledge | 71 |
Pickled Onion Puzzle | 73 |
Guess the Card | 74 |
And Now with a Complete Pack | 75 |
Egyptian Fractions | 76 |
The Greedy Algorithm | 80 |
How to Move a Table | 83 |
Newton by Byron | 84 |
Whatevers the Antimatter? | 86 |
How to See Inside Things | 91 |
Mathematicians Musing About Mathematics | 96 |
Wittgensteins Sheep | 98 |
Leaning Tower of Pizza | 99 |
PieThagorass WorldFamous Mince πs | 103 |
Diamond Frame | 104 |
Pour Relations | 105 |
The Sacred Principle of Mat | 107 |
Perfectly Abundantly Amicably Deficient | 109 |
Target Practice | 111 |
Just a Phase Im Going Through | 112 |
Proof Techniques | 114 |
Second Thoughts | 116 |
Cooking with Water | 117 |
Celestial Resonance | 118 |
Calculator Curiosity 2 | 123 |
The Most Outrageous Proof | 126 |
Colorado Smith and the Solar Temple | 129 |
Why Cant I Add Fractions Like I Multiply Them? | 131 |
Pooling Resources | 133 |
Cooking on a Torus | 135 |
The Catalan Conjecture | 136 |
The Origin of the Square Root Symbol | 138 |
Please Bear with Me | 139 |
Cricket on Grumpius | 143 |
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers | 144 |
The Missing Piece | 145 |
What Does Zeno? | 146 |
Global Warming Swindle | 164 |
Name the Cards | 171 |
What Is Point Nine Recurring? | 172 |
Ghost of a Departed Quantity | 174 |
Nice Little Earner | 176 |
Congruent Numbers | 177 |
PresentMinded Somewhere Else | 179 |
Its About Time | 180 |
The Klein Bottle | 181 |
Accounting the Digits | 185 |
Multiplying with Sticks | 186 |
As Long as I Gaze on Laplacian Sunrise | 190 |
Another Take on Mathematical Cats | 191 |
Bordered Prime Magic Square | 192 |
Peaucelliers Linkage | 195 |
A Better Approximation to π | 196 |
Strictly for Calculus Buffs | 197 |
The Statue of Pallas Athene | 198 |
Calculator Curiosity 3 | 199 |
Completing the Square | 200 |
NonMathematicians Musing AboutMathematics | 201 |
Eulers Conjecture | 203 |
Piratical Pathways | 204 |
Trains That Pass in the Siding | 205 |
Squares Lists and Digital Sums | 206 |
Match Trick | 211 |
Which Hospital Should Close? | 212 |
How to Turn a Sphere Inside Out | 213 |
A Piece of String Walked into a Bar | 218 |
The Origin of the Symbol for Pi | 219 |
Greek and Trojan Asteroids | 220 |
Sliding Coins | 223 |
Euclids Puzzle | 224 |
The Infinite Monkey Theorem | 225 |
Monkeys Against Evolution | 226 |
Universal Letter of Reference | 228 |
Powerful Crossnumber | 230 |
Magic Handkerchiefs | 231 |
A Bluffers Guide to Symmetry | 232 |
Digital Century Revisited | 236 |
An Infinity of Primes | 237 |
A Century in Fractions | 238 |
Ah That Explains It | 239 |
False Not Stated Not Proved | 241 |
Slicing the Doughnut | 242 |
Tippe Top Twister | 245 |
When Is a Knot Not Knotted? | 246 |
The Origin of the Factorial Symbol | 247 |
Juniper Green | 248 |
Mathematical Metajoke | 253 |
Beyond the Fourth Dimension | 254 |
Slades Braid | 262 |
Avoiding the Neighbours | 263 |
A Rolling Wheel Gathers No Speed | 264 |
Chess in Flatland | 265 |
The Infinite Lottery | 267 |
The Largest Number Is FortyTwo | 268 |
A Future History of Mathematics | 269 |
Professor Stewarts Superlative Storehouse of Sneaky Solutions and Stimulating Supplements | 273 |
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