Math hysteria [[electronic resource] ] : fun and games with mathematics / / Ian Stewart |
Autore | Stewart Ian <1945-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
Disciplina | 793.74 |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematical recreations
Mathematics |
ISBN |
0-19-164745-4
1-280-59394-6 9786613623775 0-19-154739-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Figure Acknowledgements; 1 I Know That You Know That; 2 Domino Theories; 3 Turning the Tables; 4 The Anthropomurphic Principle; 5 Counting the Cattle of the Sun; 6 The Great Drain Robbery; 7 Two-Way Jigsaw Puzzles; 8 Tales of the Neglected Number; 9 Is Monopoly Fair?; 10 Monopoly Revisited; 11 A Guide to Computer Dating; 12 Dividing the Spoils; 13 Squaring the Square; 14 The Bellows Conjecture; 15 Purposefully Piling Pyramids; 16 Be a Dots-and-Boxes Grandmaster; 17 Choosily Chomping Chocolate; 18 Shedding a Little Darkness; 19 Preposterous Piratical Predicaments
20 Million-Dollar MinesweeperFurther Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827547303321 |
Stewart Ian <1945-> | ||
Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Taming the infinite : the story of mathematics from the first numbers to chaos theory / / Ian Stewart |
Autore | Stewart Ian <1945-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Quercus, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
Disciplina | 510.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematicians - History
Mathematics - History |
ISBN | 1-68144-551-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154677503321 |
Stewart Ian <1945-> | ||
New York, NY : , : Quercus, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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