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How to Cut a Cake: And other mathematical conundrums [Minkštas viršelis]

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(Professor of Mathematics, The University of Warwick)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 248 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 233x155x20 mm, weight: 386 g, 20 specially commissioned B&W cartoons, plus some simple mathematical diagrams
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Oct-2006
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0199205906
  • ISBN-13: 9780199205905
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 248 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 233x155x20 mm, weight: 386 g, 20 specially commissioned B&W cartoons, plus some simple mathematical diagrams
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Oct-2006
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0199205906
  • ISBN-13: 9780199205905
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Raktažodžiai:
Welcome back to Ian Stewart's magical world of mathematics! Here are twenty more curious puzzles and fantastical mathematical stories from one of the world's most popular and accessible writers on mathematics. This is a strange world of never-ending chess games, empires on the moon, furious fireflies, and, of course, disputes over how best to cut a cake. Each chapter--with titles such as, "How to Play Poker By Post" and "Repealing the Law of Averages"--presents a fascinating mathematical puzzle that is challenging, fun, and introduces the reader to a significant mathematical problem in an engaging and witty way. Illustrated with clever and quirky cartoons, each tale will delight those who love puzzles and mathematical conundrums.
Preface vii
Figure Acknowledgements
xiii
Your Half's Bigger than My Half!
1(10)
Repealing the Law of Averages
11(14)
Arithmetic and Old Lace
25(12)
Paradox Lost
37(10)
Tight Tins for Round Sardines
47(14)
The Never-Ending Chess Game
61(10)
Quods and Quazars
71(8)
Zero Knowledge Protocols
79(8)
Empires on the Moon
87(12)
Empires and Electronics
99(12)
Resurrection Shuffle
111(12)
Double Bubble, Toil and Trouble
123(12)
Crossed Lines in the Brick Factory
135(8)
Division without Envy
143(10)
Furiously Flashing Fireflies
153(12)
Why Phone Cords Get Tangled
165(10)
Sierpinski's Ubiquitous Gasket
175(12)
Defend the Roman Empire!
187(10)
Triangulation Takeaway
197(10)
Easter Is a Quasicrystal
207(10)
Further Reading 217(6)
Index 223


Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University, and Director of the Mathematics Awareness Centre at Warwick. An active research mathematician, he is also a well-known popularizer of mathematics and related areas of science. In 1995 he was awarded the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award for furthering the public understanding of science; his book Nature's Numbers was shortlisted for the 1996 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books; and he delivered the 1997 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, televised by the BBC. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His many books include Evolving the Alien (with Jack Cohen), The Science of Discworld, What Shape is a Snowflake?, Flatterland, The Magical Maze, and Does God Play Dice? .