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What's maths got to do with it? Delve into this curios cabinet to find out for yourself:- How to slice through your fingers without cutting them off- How to deduce without looking whether the rabbit under the hat is black or white- Why the M25 is shorter anti-clockwise than clockwise and by how much- Why minus times minus equals plus- And how to extract that cherry from a cocktail glass (harder than you think!)Forget sudoku. For keeping your brain limber, nothing can compete with Professor Stewart's tasty assortment of numerical nibbles.
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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, Ian Stewart
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- Released
- 2008
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ian Stewart
- Publisher
- Profile
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 310
- ISBN10
- 1846680646
- ISBN13
- 9781846680649
- Series
- Collection
- Tibet (Argo)
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Science & Math, References & Manuals, Science, Mathematics, Games, Mathematics and logic, Puzzles, Jigsaw Puzzles
- First published
- 2008
- Original title
- Professor Stewart´s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- What's maths got to do with it? Delve into this curios cabinet to find out for yourself:- How to slice through your fingers without cutting them off- How to deduce without looking whether the rabbit under the hat is black or white- Why the M25 is shorter anti-clockwise than clockwise and by how much- Why minus times minus equals plus- And how to extract that cherry from a cocktail glass (harder than you think!)Forget sudoku. For keeping your brain limber, nothing can compete with Professor Stewart's tasty assortment of numerical nibbles.