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A retitled and revised edition of Ian Stewart's The Problem of Mathematics, this is the perfect guide to today's mathematics. Read about the latest discoveries, including Andrew Wile's amazing proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, the newest advances in knot theory, the Four Colour Theorem, Chaos Theory, and fake four-dimensial spaces. See how simple concepts from probability theory shed light on the National Lottery and tell you how to maximize your winnings. Discover how infinitesimals become respectable, why there are different kinds of infinity, and how to square the circle with the mathematical equivalent of a pair of scissors.
| ISBN | 0192832026 | | Pages | 336 | | ISBN13 | 9780192832023
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 252 | | Imprint | Oxford Paperbacks | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 196 | | Publication date | 04 Apr 1996 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Library of Congress | QA93.S734 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY | 510 | | Academic level | Secondary education, A / AS level, Undergraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | |
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| 1 | | The Nature of Mathematics | | 1 | | 2 | | The Price of Primality | | 13 | | 3 | | Marginal Interest | | 25 | | 4 | | Parallel Thinking | | 49 | | 5 | | The Miraculous Jar | | 60 | | 6 | | Ghosts of Departed Quantities | | 70 | | 7 | | The Duellist and the Monster | | 89 | | 8 | | The Purple Wallflower | | 104 | | 9 | | Much Ado About Knotting | | 113 | | 10 | | More Ado About Knotting | | 132 | | 11 | | Squarerooting the Unsquarerootable | | 155 | | 12 | | Squaring the Unsquarable | | 168 | | 13 | | Strumpet Fortune | | 180 | | 14 | | The Mathematics of Nature | | 196 | | 15 | | The Patterns of Chaos | | 216 | | 16 | | The Two-and-a-Halfth Dimension | | 237 | | 17 | | Dixit Algorizmi | | 252 | | 18 | | The Limits of Computability | | 261 | | 19 | | The Ultimate in Technology Transfer | | 274 | | | | Further Reading | | 284 | | | | Index | | 299 |
Maths can be fun! What's more, as Ian Stewart shows, it can be explained in everyday language ... it is such a surprise to find mathematics being made so accessible. Good Book Guide an excellent account of what's going on in mathematics right now Guardian  Be the first to write a customer review
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