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Math hysteria : fun and games with mathematics /
Welcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics! In Math Hysteria, Professor Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale: Counting the Cattle of the Sun; The Great Drain Robbery; and Preposterous Piratical Predicaments; to name bu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. I know that you know that
- 2. Domino theories
- 3. Turning the tables
- 4. anthropomurphic principle
- 5. Counting the cattle of the sun
- 6. great drain robbery
- 7. Two-way jigsaw puzzles
- 8. Tales of the neglected number
- 9. Is monopoly fair?
- 10. Monopoly revisited
- 11. guide to computer dating
- 12. Dividing the spoils
- 13. Squaring the square
- 14. 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 minesweeper.