From here to infinity / Ian Stewart.
By: Stewart, Ian
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Contributor(s): Stewart, Ian. Problems of mathematics.
Material type:
BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996Description: x, 310 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0192832026.Subject(s): Mathematics -- Popular worksDDC classification: 510 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 510 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00179669 | |
| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 510 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00113609 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A retitled and revised edition of Ian Stewart's The Problem of Mathematics, this is the perfect guide to today's mathematics. Read about the latest discoveries, including Andrew Wile's amazing proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, the newest advances in knot theory, the Four Colour Theorem, Chaos Theory, and fake four-dimensial spaces. See how simple concepts from probability theory shed light on the National Lottery and tell you how to maximize your winnings. Discover how infinitesimals become respectable, why there are different kinds of infinity, and how to square the circle with the mathematical equivalent of a pair of scissors.
Rev. ed. of: The problems of mathematics. 2nd ed. 1992.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-297) and index.
The nature of mathematics -- The price of primality -- Marginal interest -- Parallel thinking -- The miraculous jar -- Ghosts of departed quantities -- The duellist and the monster -- The purple wallflower -- Much ado about knotting -- More ado about knotting -- Squarerooting and unsquarerootable -- Squaring the unsquareable -- Strumpet fortune -- The mathematics of nature -- The patterns of chaos -- The two-and-a-halfth dimension -- Dixit algorizmi -- The limits of computability -- The ultimate in technology transfer.