Welcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics! Math Hysteria contains twenty quirky tales of mathematical exploration by one of the world's most popular writers on mathematics. Ian Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale, including "Counting the Cattle of the Sun," "The Great Drain Robbery," and "Preposterous Piratical Predicaments." Fully illustrated with explanatory diagrams, each tale is told with engaging wit, sure to amuse everyone with an interest in puzzles and mathematics. Along the way, we also meet many curious characters. Containing twenty specially-commissioned cartoons, this book will delight all who are familiar with Stewart's many other books, such as What Shape is a Snowflake? and Flatterland and anyone interested in mathematical problems. In short, these stories are engaging, challenging, and lots of fun!
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In Math Hysteria, Professor Stewart presents us with a wealth of intriguing, challenging, and fun puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale. L'Enseignement Mathematique, 2005
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Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University and the author of many books, including Nature's Numbers and From Here to Infinity: A Guide to Today's Mathematics. He writes the "Mathematical Recreations" column for Scientific American.
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Math Hysteria, and its follow-up How to Cut a Cake, are great books if you are interested in recreational mathematics and are not a mathematician but have a decent background in mathematics. The books 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. For example, the first chapter is on statements that initially seem to contain no information at all, but, once you take into account what other people involved know, allow one to deduce everything that there is to know. Moreover, there are two chapters on the game Monopoly, a chapter on how to cut up a figure and to use the pieces to form a different shape, a chapter on sums of squares that form a square, a chapter on how to light with a candle a room with mirrors, 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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Bought this book hoping my 18 year old son would find it interesting, but to no avail. Too difficult for him to understand, really. I gave it to his maths teacher, who loves it.
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Math Hysteria is a book eith lots of subjects in. It is not a book which should be read like it explains the whole topic because it is like an introduction to lots of topics. It is very useful because it has a further reading page which tells you what to read if you have enjoyed one of the chapters, and want to find out more.
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