A new trove of entrancing numbers and delightful mathematical nibbles
for adventurous minds.

Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of
Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games,
puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with
forays into ancient and modern mathematical thought, appallingly
hilarious mathematical jokes, and enquiries into the great mathematical
challenges of the present and past. Amongst a host of arcane and
astonishing facts about every kind of number from irrational or
imaginary to complex or cuneiform, we find out: how to organise chaos
how matter balances anti-matter how to turn a sphere inside out (without
creasing it .) why you can't comb a hairy ball how to calculate pi
by observing the stars And we get some tantalising glimpses of the maths
of life and the universe. Mind-stretching, enlightening and endlessly
amusing, Professor Stewart's new entertainment will stimulate, delight,
and enthral.

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