Five-Minute Mathematics by Ehrhard Behrends

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Five-Minute Mathematics by Ehrhard Behrends

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Zusammenfassung

A collection of one hundred short essays, that offers a tour through contemporary and everyday mathematics. It includes topics that range from pure mathematics to applications of mathematics to observations about the mathematics that surrounds us in daily life. It is suitable for those who read the science section of a newspaper or magazine.

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Five-Minute Mathematics by Ehrhard Behrends

How much math can you cover in five minutes? Quite a bit, if you have a good guide. In this collection of one hundred short essays, Ehrhard Behrends offers a tour through contemporary and everyday mathematics. The topics range from pure mathematics to applications of mathematics to observations about the mathematics that surrounds us in daily life. Here, we read about the parable of grains of rice on a chessboard, the mathematics of the lottery, music and mathematics, intriguing paradoxes, the concept of infinity, the Poincare conjecture, quantum computers, and plenty more.

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Ehrhard Behrends ist Professor fü¾˜¶˜¼r Mathematik an der FU Berlin. Er ist Autor und Herausgeber von zahlreichen Fachbü¾˜¶˜¼chern und populü¾†”¼rwissenschaftlichen Bü¾˜¶˜¼chern in der Mathematik.
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ISBN 13 9780821843482
ISBN 10 0821843486
Titel Five-Minute Mathematics
Autor Ehrhard Behrends
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag American Mathematical Society
Erscheinungsjahr 2008-05-30
Seitenanzahl 380
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