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Game, Set and Math: Enigmas and Conundrums (Dover Classics of Science & Mathematics)

by: Ian Stewart

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.74
EAN: 9780486458847
ISBN: 0486458849
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: March 29, 2007
Publisher: Dover Publications
Studio: Dover Publications

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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.

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- Wading through puns to learn mathematics
Like the man who replaced Babe Ruth in the Yankee outfield, Ian Stewart is replacing a legend. When Martin Gardner "retired" as the editor of the Mathematical Games column of Scientific American it was eventually taken over by A. K. Dewdney and became Computer Recreations. Now written by Ian Stewart and called Mathematical Recreations, it is proving a worthy successor to the master. This book is a collection of twelve essays that explain serious mathematics using an unserious approach.
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- Interesting but difficult
The book is a set of puzzles for the reader to solve, often involving a family of worms that have to split a blanket, cut a cheese, or some other commonplace task that nonetheless can take mathematics to solve in the required way. The author originally wrote the puzzles for the French edition of Scientific American. Some of the mathematics involved is the standard (but interesting) pop-math like games with infinity, but others get into topology and higher mathematics. While many of the puzzles ... Read More

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