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13 produkter
Mathematics of Juggling
E-bok, 2006
799 kr
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As a juggler the author likes to finish his performances with a stunt that combines props and techniques from a variety of juggling disciplines. Imagine him idling on a giraffe unicycle, while balancing a spinning basketball on a mouth stick, and toss-juggling a sword, a toilet plunger, and a …
Mathematics of Juggling
Häftad, 2002
529 kr
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As a juggler the author likes to finish his performances with a stunt that combines props and techniques from a variety of juggling disciplines. Imagine him idling on a giraffe unicycle, while balancing a spinning basketball on a mouth stick, and toss-juggling a sword, a toilet plunger, and a …
Geometries on Surfaces
Av Burkard Polster, Günter Steinke
Inbunden, 2001
2360 kr
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The projective, Möbius, Laguerre, and Minkowski planes over the real numbers are just a few examples of a host of fundamental classical topological geometries on surfaces. This book summarizes all known major results and open problems related to these classical point-line geometries and their close …
Shoelace Book
A Mathematical Guide to the Best (and Worst) Ways to Lace Your Shoes
Häftad, 2006
598 kr
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Crisscross, zigzag, bowtie, devil, angel, or star: which are the longest, the shortest, the strongest, and the weakest lacings? Pondering the mathematics of shoelaces, the author paints a vivid picture of the simple, beautiful, and surprising characterizations of the most common shoelace patterns. …
Math Goes to the Movies
Av Burkard Polster, Marty Ross
Häftad, 2012
474 kr
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Mel Gibson teaching Euclidean geometry, Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins acting out Zeno's paradox, Michael Jackson proving in three different ways that 7 x 13 = 28. These are just a few of the intriguing mathematical snippets that occur in hundreds of movies. Burkard Polster and Marty Ross pored through …
Geometrical Picture Book
E-bok, 2012
1941 kr
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How do you convey to your students, colleagues and friends some of the beauty of the kind of mathematics you are obsessed with? If you are a mathematician interested in finite or topological geometry and combinatorial designs, you could start by showing them some of the (400+) pictures in the …
Geometrical Picture Book
Häftad, 2012
1534 kr
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How do you convey to your students, colleagues and friends some of the beauty of the kind of mathematics you are obsessed with? If you are a mathematician interested in finite or topological geometry and combinatorial designs, you could start by showing them some of the (400+) pictures in the …
Dingo Ate My Math Book
Mathematics from Down Under
Av Burkard Polster, Marty Ross
Häftad, 2018
485 kr
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A Dingo Ate My Math Book presents ingenious, unusual, and beautiful nuggets of mathematics with a distinctly Australian flavor. It focuses, for example, on Australians' love of sports and gambling, and on Melbourne's iconic, mathematically inspired architecture. Written in a playful and humorous …
Putting Two and Two Together
Selections from the Mathologer Files
Av Burkard Polster, Marty Ross
Häftad, 2022
485 kr
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Putting Two and Two Together is a humorous and quirky collection of unusual, ingenious, and beautiful morsels of mathematics. Authors Burkard Polster (YouTube's Mathologer) and Marty Ross delve into mathematical puzzles and phenomena in engaging stories featuring current events, sports, and …
Putting Two and Two Together and a Dingo Ate My Math Book (2-Volume Set)
Av Burkard Polster, Marty Ross
Häftad, 2022
598 kr
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This set includes two humorous and quirky collections of mathematical morsels by Burkard Polster (YouTube's Mathologer) and Marty Ross—Putting Two and Two Together: Selections from the Mathologer Files and A Dingo Ate My Math Book: Mathematics from Down Under. The stories in both volumes were …
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Beauty in Mathematical Proof (Q.E.D.)
Häftad, 2006
92 kr
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Which famous proof did Archimedes inscribe on his tombstone? How and why do knots make perfect pentagons? Have you ever seen a proof so completely that it is just obvious? In this delicious little book, top down-under mathemagician Dr. Polster presents many of the most visually intuitive and …
Math Goes to the Movies
Av Burkard Polster, Marty Ross
Inbunden, 2012
755 kr
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Mel Gibson teaching Euclidean geometry, Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins acting out Zeno's paradox, Michael Jackson proving in three different ways that 7 x 13 = 28. These are just a few of the intriguing mathematical snippets that occur in hundreds of movies. Burkard Polster and Marty Ross pored through …
