Cows in the Maze

How do you make an ice-cream cone into a square?

What shape is a teardrop?

Does a confession increase the probability of being guilty?

In Cows in the Maze, Ian Stewart returns with another selection of puzzles to amaze and delight. We encounter a diverse range of mathematical investigations and discoveries, from the mathematical patterns of animal movement (Walking with Quadrupeds) and time travel (Forward to the Future) to intriguing facts about familiar objects (The Lore and Lure of Dice) and, of course, the problem of how to find a cow in a maze...

Including lively 'feedback' sections from readers of his Scientific American column, Stewart reveals the deeper principles underlying these curious facts and puzzles, making mathematics inspiring and fun.

`Maths can be fun! What's more, as Ian Stewart shows, it can be explained in everyday language . it is such a surprise to find mathematics being made so accessible.'

Ian Stewart is a monthly contributor to the highly popular "Recreational Mathematics" column in Scientific American. Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Mathematics Awareness Centre at Warwick University, he is both an active research mathematician and a well-known popularizer of mathematics and related areas of science. In 1995 he was awarded the Michael Faraday Award for furthering the public understanding of science. A Fellow of the Royal Society, his many books include Flatterland and The Magical Maze.