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Welcome back to Ian Stewart's magical world of 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 quirky tale presents a fascinating mathematical puzzle -- challenging, fun, and also introducing the reader to a significant mathematical problem in an engaging and witty way.
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A big man and a small man were sitting in the restaurant car of a train, and both ordered fish. Read the first page
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
How to Cut a Cake, and its predecessor Math Hysteria, are great books if you are interested in recreational mathematics and are not a mathematician but have a decent background in mathematics. The book has fewer topics than Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, but they are discussed much more deeply. They are also not so well known, but they are certainly highly interesting. There are two chapters on how to cut a cake so that everyone thinks that he gets a fair share, a chapter on different ways to tie your shoe laces and how long the laces have to be, a chapter on packing circles, a chapter on how the shuffle a pack of cards, a chapter on tangled phone cords, and many others. If you want to know more of the topics in the book, it even has a list of references for further reading.
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I thought this would be a book which even my daughter might enjoy (she's in year 7). I was wrong and I don't really understand a word of it. However, I have high hopes of changing that as I have just started a course in maths...
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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after having this book recommended by my Math teacher I thought it would be a good book to buy. This book has really helped with school work, it is a VERY interesting book and I recommend it to other readers who are looking for an interesting book with lots of information. 5/5
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