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By David Wells

ISBN-10: 0471180777

ISBN-13: 9780471180777

What's the biggest quantity lower than 1?

If x and y are any of 2 various confident numbers, that is greater, x2 + y2 or 2xy?

What do you get in case you go a dice and an octahedron?

Discover the stunning solutions as David Wells conclusively proves that: you're a mathematician

Praise for David Wells's

The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and fascinating Numbers.

"This is an interesting, unusual, and possibly exact publication, person who i'm going to examine many times. once I had taken an outstanding examine it, I went out and purchased 3 extra copies to provide to friends." —New Scientist.

"David Wells's e-book approximately curious and fascinating numbers is a unusual classic." —William Dunham writer, trip via Genius.

Are you on pleasant phrases with numbers? you can be after studying this pleasant advent to the interesting and demanding international of arithmetic. Bestselling writer David Wells, a Cambridge math student and previous instructor, explores the numerous styles, homes —and difficulties —associated with numbers in a witty, completely enticing sort that's either enjoyable and informative. even if you're a math aficionado or even if you, because the writer places it, "panic and begin sweating on the sight of a sum," Wells makes one aspect abundantly transparent: you're a Mathematician.

From easy mathematics to algebraic equations, from the only sensible to the summary, this can be a terrific consultant to the aptitude and pleasures of math. extraordinary styles emerge from the best groupings of numbers. the numerous secrets and techniques hidden inside triangles are printed, as are the origins of a bunch of mathematical theories and ideas, from Aristotle to Euclid and Galileo. On a trip from the traditional Greeks to quantum idea, Wells stocks exciting anecdotes from heritage, similar to how eighteenth-century ecu army commanders calculated what percentage cannonballs their enemies had stacked up subsequent to their cannons.

David Wells invitations us to find the experience of ask yourself and enjoyable that's quite a bit part of arithmetic. Mathematical pondering is frequently a great deal like a video game, counting on crafty strategies, deep procedure, and impressive mixtures up to on statement, analogy, and knowledgeable guesswork. to demonstrate, Wells contains over a hundred brainteasing puzzles and difficulties, starting from Ptolemy's theorem to Euler's recognized approach to the Königsberg bridge challenge and Koch's snowflake curve. modern day laptop buffs also will benefit from the underground vintage, the sport of existence, invented by way of Princeton mathematician John Conway.

Offering a complete and stimulating examine the myriad features of arithmetic —whether as a family helper or a useful software of technological know-how —You Are a Mathematician covers quite a lot of subject matters and functions. it really is an incredible consultant to the aptitude and pleasures to be present in math.

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