Do I Count?: Stories from Mathematics (AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series) - Hardcover

Ziegler, Gunter M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138427225 ISBN 13: 9781138427228

Verlag: A K Peters/CRC Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

The subject of mathematics is not something distant, strange, and abstract that you can only learn about and often dislike in school. It is in everyday situations, such as housekeeping, communications, traffic, and weather reports. Taking you on a trip into the world of mathematics, Do I Count? Stories from Mathematics describes in a clear and captivating way the people behind the numbers and the places where mathematics is made.

Written by top scientist and engaging storyteller G nter M. Ziegler and translated by Thomas von Foerster, the book presents mathematics and mathematicians in a manner that you have not previously encountered. It guides you on a scenic tour through the field, pointing out which beds were useful in constructing which theorems and which notebooks list the prizes for solving particular problems. Forgoing esoteric areas, the text relates mathematics to celebrities, history, travel, politics, science and technology, weather, clever puzzles, and the future.

Can bees count?
Is 13 bad luck?
Are there equations for everything?
What‘s the real practical value of the Pythagorean Theorem?
Are there Sudoku puzzles with fewer than 17 entries and just one solution?
Where and how do mathematicians work?
Who invented proofs and why do we need them?
Why is there no Nobel Prize for mathematics?
What kind of life did Paul Erdos lead?

Find out the answers to these and other questions in this entertaining book of stories. You‘ll see that everyone counts, but no computation is needed.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gunter M. Ziegler is a MATHEON professor at Freie Universite Berlin. Dr. Ziegler is a member of the executive board of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. His honors include the Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation DFG, the Chauvenet Prize from the Mathematical Association of America, and the Communicator Award from DFG and Stifterverband. His research interests connect discrete and computational geometry (especially polytopes), algebraic and topological methods in combinatorics, discrete mathematics, and the theory of linear and integer programming. He earned a Ph.D. from MIT.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: A K Peters/CRC Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138427225
• ISBN 13: 9781138427228
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 226
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