Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
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Published By Basic Books
Format Paperback
Number Of Pages 320
Publication Date 01/06/2009
ISBN 9780465013029
Dimensions 5.5 inches x 8.25 inches
"[Armchair mathematicians] are certain to find pleasure in this cornucopia of puzzles, brainteasers, and digressions.... The ideal book for dispelling the supposed drudgery of mathematics with its real magic."—Booklist
"Stewart has a genius for explanation that allows details of the Poincaré conjecture and Riemann hypothesis to sit happily alongside a quip about a chicken crossing a Möbius strip.... Mathematics doesn't come more entertaining than this."—New Scientist
"The exciting side of math--puzzles, games and thrilling oddities."—Chicago Tribune
"What positive integer is equal to its own Scrabble score when spelled out in full? Stewart...offers this and a hodgepodge of other puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, tricks, facts and jokes, which he accurately calls 'curiosities.'."—Science News
"Open one of the 179 'drawers' in Professor Stewart's cabinet, and you might find just a one-liner...or a seven-page essay on Fermat's last theorem.... The book can be devoured in one giant gulp or savored, one curiosity at a time."—IEEE Spectrum