Product Description

A collection of curiosities of maths. It features such topics as the keys to unlocking the mysteries of Fermat's last theorem, the Poincare Conjecture, chaos theory, and the P/NP problem.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #105796 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

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Review
'Stewart has served up the instructive equivalent of a Michelin-starred tasting menu, or perhaps a smorgasbord of appetisers. And of course, appetisers are designed to give you an appetite for more.' Tim Radford, Guardian

From the Back Cover
What's maths got to do with it? Delve into this curious cabinet to find out for yourself: - How to slice through your fingers without cutting them off - How to deduce without looking whether the rabbit under the hat is black or white - Why the M25 is shorted anti-clockwise than clockwise, and by how much - Why minus times minus equals plus - And how to extract that cherry from a cocktail glass (harder than you think!) Forget sudoku. For keeping your brain limber, nothing can compete with Professor Stewart's tasty assortment of numerical nibbles.

About the Author
Professor Stewart is best known for making Mathematics accessible and popular. He was awarded the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Medal for furthering the public understanding of science. His many popular science books include Does God Play Dice?, Life's Other Secrets and Flatterland. He is the mathematics consultant for the New Scientist and is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.