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How to Cut a Cake Ian Stewart (Professor of Mathematics, The University of Warwick)

How to Cut a Cake par Ian Stewart (Professor of Mathematics, The University of Warwick)

How to Cut a Cake Ian Stewart (Professor of Mathematics, The University of Warwick)

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Résumé

Welcome back to Ian Stewart's magical world of 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 quirky tale presents a fascinating mathematical puzzle - challenging, fun, and also introducing the reader to a significant mathematical problem in an engaging and witty way.

How to Cut a Cake Résumé

How to Cut a Cake: And other mathematical conundrums Ian Stewart (Professor of Mathematics, The University of Warwick)

Welcome back to Ian Stewart's magical world of 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 quirky tale presents a fascinating mathematical puzzle - challenging, fun, and also introducing the reader to a significant mathematical problem in an engaging and witty way.

À propos de Ian Stewart (Professor of Mathematics, The University of Warwick)

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? .

Sommaire

Preface ; 1. Your Half's Bigger Than My Half! ; 2. Repealing the Law of Averages ; 3. Arithmetic and Old Lace ; 4. Paradox Lost ; 5. Tight Tins for Round Sardines ; 6. The Never-Ending Chess Game ; 7. Quods and Quazars ; 8. Zero Knowledge Protocols ; 9. Empires on the Moon ; 10. Empires and Electronics ; 11. Resurrection Shuffle ; 12. Double Bubble, Toil and Trouble ; 13. Crossed Lines in the Brick Factory ; 14. Division Without Envy ; 15. Furiously flashing fireflies ; 16. Why Phone Cords Get Tangled ; 17. Sierpinski's Ubiquitous Gasket ; 18. Defend the Roman empire! ; 19. Triangulation Takeaway ; 20. Easter is a quasicrystal ; Further Reading ; Index

Informations supplémentaires

GOR003450682
9780199205905
0199205906
How to Cut a Cake: And other mathematical conundrums Ian Stewart (Professor of Mathematics, The University of Warwick)
Ian Stewart (Professor of Mathematics, The University of Warwick)
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Oxford University Press
2006-10-12
248
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