商品簡介
This is a book of mathematical stories — funny and puzzling mathematical stories. They tell of villains who try to steal secrets, heroes who encode their messages, and mathematicians who spend years on end searching for the best way to pile oranges.There are also stories about highway confusions occurring when the rules of Cartesian geometry are ignored, small-change errors due to ignorance of ancient paradoxes, and mistakes in calendars arising from poor numerical approximations.This book is about the power and beauty of mathematics. It shows mathematics in action, explained in a way that everybody can understand. It is a book for enticing youngsters and inspiring teachers.Nuno Crato is a leading science writer and mathematician, whose entertaining essays have won a number of international awards.
作者簡介
Nuno Crato is one of the leading science writers in Portugal. He is a professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Lisbon, current president of the Portuguese Mathematical Society, a researcher in stochastic processes, and a well-known science popularizer. As author of several best-selling popular science books. Nuno Crato also takes a leading role in bringing mathematics to a wider audience. He is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines and author of radio and TV programs His contributions to communicating and raising public awareness of mathematics and science have won a number of prestigious international awards.
