Game, Set and Math Enigmas and Conundrums

by Stewart, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780486458847
• ISBN10: 0486458849
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-29
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Twelve essays take a playful approach to the subject, exploring how to play poker over the telephone without the possibility of cheating, how to distinguish plausible fallacies from unbelievable facts, and how to cope mathematically with contorted worms, drunken tennis players, and snakes that eat their own tails. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Ian Stewart is a professor at the University of Warwick

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vi
Mother Worm's Blanket	p. 1
The Drunken Tennis-Player	p. 15
The Infinormatics Laboratory	p. 31
The Autovoracious Ourotorus	p. 41
Fallacy or Ycallaf?	p. 55
Build your own Virus	p. 71
Parity Piece	p. 89
Close Encounters of the Fermat Kind	p. 107
Pascal's Fractals	p. 125
The Worm Returns	p. 141
All Parallels Lead to Rome	p. 155
The Twelve Games of Christmas	p. 171
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