Full name: How to Cut a Cake: And other mathematical conundrums

Author: Ian Stewart Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads eBooks.com Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780199205905 0199205906

Welcome back to Ian Stewart's magical world of mathematics! Here are twenty more curious puzzles and fantastical mathematical stories from one of the world's most popular and accessible writers on mathematics. This is a strange world of never-ending chess games, empires on the moon, furious fireflies, and, of course, disputes over how best to cut a cake. Each chapter--with titles such as, "How to Play Poker By Post" and "Repealing the Law of Averages"--presents a fascinating mathematical puzzle that is challenging, fun, and introduces the reader to a significant mathematical problem in an engaging and witty way. Illustrated with clever and quirky cartoons, each tale will delight those who love puzzles and mathematical conundrums. Similar books: An Introduction to Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead Four Colors Suffice by Robin Wilson The Mathematical Universe by William Dunham The Art of the Infinite by Robert Kaplan Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries by Ian Stewart The Mathematics of Life by Ian Stewart Flatterland by Ian Stewart Letters to a Young Mathematician by Ian Stewart Murderous Maths by Kjartan Poskitt Keys to Infinity by Clifford A. Pickover Fractals, Googols, and Other Mathematical Tales by Theoni Pappas by John Allen Paulos The Mathematical Tourist by Ivars Peterson Mathematics by Timothy Gowers The Grapes of Math by Alex Bellos Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker The Divine Proportion by H. E. Huntley QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku