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· 제목 : Putting Two and Two Together : Selections from the Mathologer Files (Paperback)
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 과학/수학/생태 > 수학 > 일반
· ISBN : 9781470460112
· 쪽수 : 270쪽
· 출판일 : 2022-01-30
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 과학/수학/생태 > 수학 > 일반
· ISBN : 9781470460112
· 쪽수 : 270쪽
· 출판일 : 2022-01-30
목차
- Putting two and two together: Cordial math
- Uncovering base motives
- Sneaky square dance
- A very strange set of blocks
- Parabolic production line
- The magic of the imaginary
- There's no $e$ in Euler
- What's the best way to lace your shoes?
- Ringing the changes
- The shape of things to come: Triangle surfer dude
- We have it pegged
- Shadowlands
- Picture perfect
- Tractrix and truck tricks
- Cycling in circles
- Which way did Natalie go?
- $\pi=3$
- Just the right level of wine
- Spotting an unfortunate spot
- Summing up the mystery of flight MH370
- Choc-full of mathematics
- Too hot, too cold, just right
- A bloody good sport: Seeds of doubt
- Tennis math, anyone?
- The ball was in AND out? You cannot be serious!
- Giving it your best shot
- Bombs, and a bombed Riewoldt
- Diophantine footy fan
- Walk, don't run!
- Tour de math
- How round is your soccer ball?
- And the winner is...
- The house that math built: Visionary Voronoi
- Melbourne's catenary chaos
- Eureka!
- Archimedes' crocodile
- Melbourne Grammar mystery map
- A rectangle, some spheres and lots of triangles
- A chance encounter: So you think you can beat the bookies?
- A Penney for your thoughts
- The Playmobil mystery
- The devil is in the dice
- The Freddo Frog path to perfection
- Will Rogers, clever Kiwis and medical magic
- The hidden karma of snakes and ladders
- Space and time, final frontiers: Poet of the universe
- Escape to our Moon planet
- Tickling Orion with a triangle
- The eternal triangles
- On primes and Pluto
- The math of planet Mars
- Letter from Germany: The eternal grind
- Calendar kinks
- Strange moves of a mathematical feast
- Lucky Friday the 13th
- On the shoulders of lesser giants: Hermann the hermit
- The equals of Robert Recorde
- Pythagoras's theorem ain't Pythagoras's
- Six of one, Babylonian the other
- It's Chris Mass time
- Clearing a logjam
- Squares, triangles and other labor-saving devices
- The doodle, the witch and Maria
- Christian Goldbach's magic sum
- Solutions to the puzzles
