Reaching for the Extreme - Professor Ian Stewart

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PROFESSOR STEWART'S CABINET OF MATHEMATICAL CURIOSITIES 'A superlative study of superlatives' GUARDIAN 'Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths' ALEX BELLOSWhat is the maximum land you can enclose inside a given border?What is the minimum number of colours you can use to colour in a map so that no region shares a shade?And how do you calculate the shortest route between two cities?These questions may not sound related, but they have this in common:... Zobrazit více