Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
January 2009
Trade Paperback · 320 Pages
$16.95 U.S. · $18.50 CAN · €11.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780465013029
Basic Books
Trade Paperback · 320 Pages
$16.95 U.S. · $18.50 CAN · €11.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780465013029
Basic Books
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Description
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 Poincaré conjecture, chaos theory, and the P=NP problem. You never know what enigmas you’ll find in the Stewart cabinet, but they’re sure to be clever, mind-expanding, and delightfully fun.
Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. The author of over seventy books, his writing has appeared in New Scientist, Discover, and Scientific American.
Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. The author of over seventy books, his writing has appeared in New Scientist, Discover, and Scientific American.
About the Author
Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. He has written over seventy books, many of which are popular accounts of science and mathematics. His writing has appeared in New Scientist, Discover, Scientific American, and many newspapers in the United States and the United Kingdom. He lives in Coventry, England.