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The Problems of Mathematics Ian Stewart

The Problems of Mathematics By Ian Stewart

The Problems of Mathematics by Ian Stewart


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For the second edition of this introduction to today's mathematics, Ian Stewart has revised the text to take account of recent developments in the field. There are three new chapters, including one on Kepler's sphere-packing problem, which has taken 380 years to solve.

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Table of Contents

The nature of mathematics; the price of primality; marginal interest; the neglected book of Euclid; parallel thinking; sphereful symmetry; the miraculous jar; ghosts of departed quantities; the duellist and the monster; much ado about knotting; the purple wallflower; squarerooting the unsquarerootable; squaring the unsquarable; strumpet fortune; the mathematics of nature; oh! catastrophe; the patterns of chaos; the two-and-a-halfth dimension; the lonely wave; more ado about knotting; dixit algorizmi; the limits of computability; the ultimate in technology transfer.

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GOR003853634
9780192861481
0192861484
The Problems of Mathematics by Ian Stewart
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
19920924
357
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