Another Fine Math You'Ve Got Me Into...
by Ian Stewart
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Populated by curious creatures whose stories unfold with jokes and puns, this mathematical wonderland of puzzles and games also imparts significant mathematical ideas. Ian Stewart, an active popularizer of mathematics, university professor, and former columnist for Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" section, has selected 16 of his columns from Pour la Science, the French edition of Scientific American, most based on a mathematical idea dressed up with oddball characters and wacky show more wordplay. show lessTags
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Way too difficult for me now. When I was in my late teens, early 20s, I would have loved it. I tried every chapter, and learned a little, though, so I'm gonna count it as 'read.'
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Ian Stewart is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Warwick. The author of numerous books on math, he has written for New Scientist, Discover, and Scientific American, among other publications in the United Kingdom and the United States. He lives in Coventry, England.
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Common Knowledge
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- 1992
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- Languages
- English, German
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 6
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