Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

School maths is not the interesting part. The real fun is elsewhere. Like a magpie, Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening, entertaining and vexing 'curiosities' of maths over the years - now, the private collection is displayed in his cabinet. There are some 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, the real reason why you can't divide anything by zero and some tips for making money by proving the obvious. Scattered among these are keys to unlocking the mysteries of Fermat's last theorem, the Poincare Conjecture, chaos theory, and the P/NP problem for which a million dollar prize is on offer. There are beguiling secrets about familiar names like Pythagoras or prime numbers, as well as anecdotes about great mathematicians. Pull out the drawers of the Professor's cabinet and who knows what could happen?

ISBN 1846683459   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781846683459 (What's this?)   Pages 320 Publisher Profile Books Ltd   Published in London Imprint Profile Books Ltd   Previous ISBN 9781846680649 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 01 Jul 2010   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 510   Academic level General

		Start Here		1
		Alien Encounter		4
		Tap-an-Animal		5
		Curious Calculations		6
		Triangle of Cards		6
		Pop-up Dodecahedron		7
		Sliced Fingers		8
		Turnip for the Books		9
		The Four-Colour Theorem		10
		Shaggy Dog Story		16
		Shaggy Cat Story		18
		Rabbits in the Hat		18
		River Crossing 1 - Farm Produce		20
		More Curious Calculations		20
		Extracting the Cherry		22
		Make Me a Pentagon		23
		What is π?		23
		Legislating the Value of π		24
		If They Had Passed It		25
		Empty glasses		26
		How Many		27
		Three Quickies		27
		Knight's Tours		28
		Much Undo About Knotting		29
		White-Tailed Cats		31
		To Find Fake Coin		32
		Perpetual Calendar		35
		Mathematical Jokes 1		35
		Deceptive Dice		36
		An Age-Old Old-Age Problem		37
		Why Does Minus Times Minus Make Plus?		37
		Heron Suit		38
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