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by Ian Stewart
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ISBN: 0486458849 Dover Publications Price: $9.95 |
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These pun-studded fables by a popular science writer make complicated mathematical concepts accessible and fun. Twelve essays take a playful approach to mathematics, investigating the topology of a warm blanket, the odds of beating a superior tennis player, and how to distinguish between fact and fallacy. 1991 edition.
Reprint of the Penguin, New York, 1991 edition.
Table of Contents for Game, Set and Math: Enigmas and Conundrums
| 1. Mother Worm's Blanket | |||||||
| 2. The Drunken Tennis-Player | |||||||
| 3. The Infinormatics Laboratory | |||||||
| 4. The Autovoracious Ourotorus | |||||||
| 5. Fallacy or Ycallaf? | |||||||
| 6. Build Your Own Virus | |||||||
| 7. Parity Piece | |||||||
| 8. Close Encounters of the Fermat Kind | |||||||
| 9. Pascal's Fractals | |||||||
| 10. The Worm Returns | |||||||
| 11. All Parallels Lead to Rome | |||||||
| 12. The Twelve Games of Christmas |