Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities
By: Ian Stewart
Publisher: Profile; Profile Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781846680649
Subjects: Mathematics; Miscellanea; Matematiska lekar; Matematik; Populärvetenskap
Other titles: Cabinet of mathematical curiosities
Description: This is a book of mathematical oddities: games, puzzles, facts, numbers and delightful mathematical nibbles for the curious and adventurous mind. 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. Scattered among these are keys to unlocking the mysteries of Fermat's last theorem, the Four Colour Theorem, the Poincare Conjecture, chaos theory, fractals, complexity and the P/NP problem for which a million dollar prize is on offer.
Notes: Legacy 2018