Math Hysteria: Fun and Games with Mathematics

Math Hysteria contains twenty quirky tales of mathematical exploration by one of the world\'s most popular writers on mathematics. Ian Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale, including \Counting the Cattle of the Sun,\ \The Great Drain Robbery...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ian Stewart
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2004
Subjects:
Mathematics, Humor, Mathematical recreations
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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