How to Cut a Cake: And other mathematical conundrums - Softcover

Stewart, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199205906 ISBN 13: 9780199205905

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2006

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Book by Stewart Ian

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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.

Biografía del autor:

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? .

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0199205906
• ISBN 13: 9780199205905
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248