Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities:
A collection of intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, stories, and factoids that reveal hidden gems of logic, geometry, and probability
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York
Basic Books
2009
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Summary: | A collection of intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, stories, and factoids that reveal hidden gems of logic, geometry, and probability |
| Physical Description: | x, 310 p. Ill., graph. Darst. 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780465013029 9781846680649 |
Staff View
MARC
| LEADER | 00000nam a2200000 c 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BV036433598 | ||
| 003 | DE-604 | ||
| 005 | 20100518 | ||
| 007 | t | ||
| 008 | 100503s2009 ad|| |||| 00||| eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9780465013029 |9 978-0-465-01302-9 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781846680649 |9 978-1-84668-064-9 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)705470271 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BVBBV036433598 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e rakwb | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 049 | |a DE-703 | ||
| 084 | |a SN 300 |0 (DE-625)143331: |2 rvk | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Stewart, Ian |d 1945- |e Verfasser |0 (DE-588)124091598 |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities |c Ian Stewart |
| 246 | 1 | 3 | |a Cabinet of mathematical curiosities |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York |b Basic Books |c 2009 | |
| 300 | |a x, 310 p. |b Ill., graph. Darst. |c 21 cm | ||
| 336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 520 | |a A collection of intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, stories, and factoids that reveal hidden gems of logic, geometry, and probability | ||
| 650 | 4 | |a Mathematical recreations | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Mathematics / Miscellanea | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Mathematik | |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Unterhaltungsmathematik |0 (DE-588)4124357-2 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf |
| 689 | 0 | 0 | |a Unterhaltungsmathematik |0 (DE-588)4124357-2 |D s |
| 689 | 0 | |8 1\p |5 DE-604 | |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |m Digitalisierung UB Bayreuth |q application/pdf |u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=020306118&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |3 Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| 999 | |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-020306118 | ||
| 883 | 1 | |8 1\p |a cgwrk |d 20201028 |q DE-101 |u https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk | |
Record in the Search Index
| _version_ | 1804142912444825600 |
|---|---|
| adam_text | Contents
Start
Here //
1
Alien
Encounter //
4
Tap-an-Animal // 5
Curious Calculations
// 6
Triangle of Cards
// 6
Pop-up Dodecahedron
// 7
Sliced Fingers
// 8
Turnip for the Books
// 9
The Four-Colour Theorem
// 10
Shaggy Dog Story
//16
Shaggy Cat Story
// 18
Rabbits in the Hat
//18
River Crossing
1 -
Fann
Produce
// 20
More Curious Calculations
// 20
Extracting the Cherry
// 22
Make Me a Pentagon
// 23
What is
π?
// 23
Legislating the Value of
π
// 24
If They Had Passed It
... // 25
Empty glasses
// 26
How Many—
// 27
Three Quickies
// 27
Knight s Tours
// 28
vi
// Contents
Much Undo About Knotting
// 29
White-Tailed Cats
// 31
To Find Fake Coin
// 32
Perpetual Calendar
// 35
Mathematical Jokes
1 // 35
Deceptive Dice
// 36
An Age-Old Old-Age Problem
// 37
Why Does Minus Times Minus Make Plus?
// 37
Heron Suit
// 38
How to Unmake a Greek Cross
// 39
How to Remember a Round Number
// 39
The Bridges of
Königsberg //41
How to do Lots of Mathematics
// 43
Euler s Pentagonal Holiday
// 44
Ouroborean Rings
// 44
The Ourotorus
// 45
Who Was Pythagoras?
// 46
Proofs of Pythagoras
// 47
A Constant Bore
// 49
Fermat s Last Theorem
// 50
Pythagorean Triples
// 58
Prime Factoids
// 59
A Little-Known Pythagorean Curiosity
// 61
Digital Century
// 62
Squaring the Square
// 62
Magic Squares
// 64
Squares of Squares
// 66
Ring
а
-Ring
a-Ringroad
// 67
Pure v. Applied
// 68
Magic Hexagon
// 68
Pentalpha
// 69
Wallpaper Patterns
// 70
How Old Was Diophantus?
// 71
Contents //
vii
If You Thought Mathematicians Were Good at
Arithmetic
... //72
The Sphinx is a Reptile
// 72
Six Degrees of Separation
// 73
Trisectors
Beware!
// 76
Langford s Cubes
// 78
Duplicating the Cube
// 79
Magic Stars
// 80
Curves of Constant Width
// 81
Connecting Cables
// 81
Coin Swap
// 82
The Stolen Car
// 82
Space-Filling Curves
// 83
Compensating Errors
// 84
The Square Wheel
// 84
Why Can t I Divide by Zero?
// 85
River Crossing
2 -
Marital Mistrust
// 86
Wherefore Art Thou Borromeo?
// 87
Percentage Play
// 88
Kinds of People
// 89
The Sausage Conjecture
// 89
Tom Fool s Knot
// 90
New Merology
// 92
Numerical Spell
// 94
Spelling Mistakes
// 95
Expanding Universe
// 95
What is the Golden Number?
// 96
What are the Fibonacci Numbers?
// 98
The Plastic Number
// 103
Family Occasion
// 105
Don t Let Go!
// 105
Theorem: All Numbers are Interesting
// 105
Theorem: All Numbers are Boring
// 106
viii
// Contents
The Most Likely Digit
// 106
Why Call It a Witch?
// 109
Möbius
and His Band
//111
Golden Oldie
//113
Three More Quiclaes
//113
Miles of Tiles//
114
Chaos Theory
//117
Après-Le-Ski//^
Pick s Theorem
// 125
Mathematical Prizes
// 126
Why No Nobel for Maths?
// 128
Is There a Perfect Cuboid?
// 129
Paradox Lost
// 130
When Will My MP3 Player Repeat?
//131
Six Pens
//134
Patented Primes
// 135
The
Poincaré
Conjecture
// 136
Hippopotamian Logic
// 140
Langton s Ant//
141
Pig on a Rope
//143
The Surprise Examination
// 144
Antigravity Cone
//144
Mathematical Jokes
2 // 145
Why Gauss Became a Mathematician
// 146
What Shape is a Crescent Moon?
// 150
Famous Mathematicians
// 150
What is a Mersenne Prime?
//151
The
Goldbach
Conjecture
// 154
Turtles All the Way Down
// 155
Hubert s Hotel
//157
Continuum Coaches
// 160
A Puzzling Dissection
// 161
A Really Puzzling Dissection
// 163
Contents // ix
Nothing Up My Sleeve
... //166
Nothing Down My Leg
... //167
Two Perpendiculars
// 167
Can You Hear the Shape of a Drum?
// 168
What is e, and Why?
// 172
May Husband and Ay
... // 173
Many Knees, Many Seats
// 174
Euler s Formula
// 177
What Day is It?
//179
Strictly Logical
// 180
Logical or Not?
// 180
A Question of Breeding
// 180
Fair Shares//
181
The Sixth Deadly Sin
// 182
Weird Arithmetic
// 182
How Deep is the Well?
// 183
McMahon s Squares
// 183
What is the Square Root of Minus One?
// 184
The Most Beautiful Formula
// 186
Why is Euler s Beautiful Formula True?
// 186
Your Call May be Monitored for Training Purposes
// 188
Archimedes, You Old Fraud!
// 188
Fractals
-
The Geometry of Nature
// 189
The Missing Symbol
// 196
Where There s a Wall, There s a Way
// 196
Constants to
50
Places
// 197
Richard s Paradox
// 197
Connecting Utilities
// 199
Are Hard Problems Easy? or How to Win a Million Dollars by
Proving the Obvious
// 199
Don t Get the Goat
// 202
All Triangles are Isosceles
// 203
Square Year
// 204
χ
// Contents
Gödel s Theorems // 205
If
π
isn t a Fraction, How Can You Calculate It?
// 208
Infinite Wealth
//211
Let Fate Decide
//212
How Many—
//212
What Shape is a Rainbow?
// 214
Alien Abduction
// 214
The Riemann Hypothesis
// 215
Anti-Atheism
// 220
Disproof of the Riemann Hypothesis
// 221
Murder in the Paik
// 221
The Cube of Cheese
// 222
The Game of Life
// 223
Two-Horse Race
// 228
Drawing an Ellipse
-
and More?
// 230
Mathematical Jokes
3 // 231
The Kepler Problem
// 231
The Milk Crate Problem
// 235
Equal Rights
// 236
Road Network
// 236
Tautoverbs
// 237
Complexity Science
// 239
Scrabble Oddity
// 244
Dragon Curve
// 244
Counterflip
// 245
Spherical Sliced Bread
// 246
Mathematical Theology
// 246
Professor Stewart s Cunning Crib Sheet
// 251
|
| any_adam_object | 1 |
| author | Stewart, Ian 1945- |
| author_GND | (DE-588)124091598 |
| author_facet | Stewart, Ian 1945- |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | Stewart, Ian 1945- |
| author_variant | i s is |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | BV036433598 |
| classification_rvk | SN 300 |
| ctrlnum | (OCoLC)705470271 (DE-599)BVBBV036433598 |
| discipline | Mathematik |
| format | Book |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>01676nam a2200397 c 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV036433598</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20100518 </controlfield><controlfield tag="007">t</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">100503s2009 ad|| |||| 00||| eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780465013029</subfield><subfield code="9">978-0-465-01302-9</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9781846680649</subfield><subfield code="9">978-1-84668-064-9</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)705470271</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV036433598</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rakwb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-703</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="084" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">SN 300</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-625)143331:</subfield><subfield code="2">rvk</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Stewart, Ian</subfield><subfield code="d">1945-</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)124091598</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities</subfield><subfield code="c">Ian Stewart</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="246" ind1="1" ind2="3"><subfield code="a">Cabinet of mathematical curiosities</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">New York</subfield><subfield code="b">Basic Books</subfield><subfield code="c">2009</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">x, 310 p.</subfield><subfield code="b">Ill., graph. Darst.</subfield><subfield code="c">21 cm</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">n</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">nc</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">A collection of intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, stories, and factoids that reveal hidden gems of logic, geometry, and probability</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Mathematical recreations</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Mathematics / Miscellanea</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Mathematik</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Unterhaltungsmathematik</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4124357-2</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Unterhaltungsmathematik</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4124357-2</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="8">1\p</subfield><subfield code="5">DE-604</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">Digitalisierung UB Bayreuth</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=020306118&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Inhaltsverzeichnis</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="999" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-020306118</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="883" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="8">1\p</subfield><subfield code="a">cgwrk</subfield><subfield code="d">20201028</subfield><subfield code="q">DE-101</subfield><subfield code="u">https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| id | DE-604.BV036433598 |
| illustrated | Illustrated |
| indexdate | 2024-07-09T22:39:18Z |
| institution | BVB |
| isbn | 9780465013029 9781846680649 |
| language | English |
| oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-020306118 |
| oclc_num | 705470271 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | DE-703 |
| owner_facet | DE-703 |
| physical | x, 310 p. Ill., graph. Darst. 21 cm |
| publishDate | 2009 |
| publishDateSearch | 2009 |
| publishDateSort | 2009 |
| publisher | Basic Books |
| record_format | marc |
| spelling | Stewart, Ian 1945- Verfasser (DE-588)124091598 aut Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities Ian Stewart Cabinet of mathematical curiosities New York Basic Books 2009 x, 310 p. Ill., graph. Darst. 21 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A collection of intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, stories, and factoids that reveal hidden gems of logic, geometry, and probability Mathematical recreations Mathematics / Miscellanea Mathematik Unterhaltungsmathematik (DE-588)4124357-2 gnd rswk-swf Unterhaltungsmathematik (DE-588)4124357-2 s 1\p DE-604 Digitalisierung UB Bayreuth application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=020306118&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Stewart, Ian 1945- Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities Mathematical recreations Mathematics / Miscellanea Mathematik Unterhaltungsmathematik (DE-588)4124357-2 gnd |
| subject_GND | (DE-588)4124357-2 |
| title | Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities |
| title_alt | Cabinet of mathematical curiosities |
| title_auth | Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities |
| title_exact_search | Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities |
| title_full | Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities Ian Stewart |
| title_fullStr | Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities Ian Stewart |
| title_full_unstemmed | Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities Ian Stewart |
| title_short | Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities |
| title_sort | professor stewart s cabinet of mathematical curiosities |
| topic | Mathematical recreations Mathematics / Miscellanea Mathematik Unterhaltungsmathematik (DE-588)4124357-2 gnd |
| topic_facet | Mathematical recreations Mathematics / Miscellanea Mathematik Unterhaltungsmathematik |
| url | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=020306118&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT stewartian professorstewartscabinetofmathematicalcuriosities AT stewartian cabinetofmathematicalcuriosities |