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

Ziegler, Gunter M. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1466564911 ISBN 13: 9781466564916

Verlag: A K Peters/CRC Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

In this entertaining book of mathematical stories, the well-known and highly esteemed author provides a surprisingly entertaining tour of unfamiliar territory. Taking you on a trip into the world of mathematics, he describes in a clear and captivating way the people behind the numbers and the places where mathematics is made. Forgoing esoteric areas, the text relates mathematics to celebrities, history, travel, politics, science and technology, weather, clever puzzles, and the future.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gunter M. Ziegler is a MATHEON professor at Freie Universit?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: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1466564911
• ISBN 13: 9781466564916
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 226
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