by Dennis Shasha · Edit. Labor Sa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433551443
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«Las intrigantes aventuras del doctor Ecco» is the popular mathematics book by Dennis Shasha, published by Edit. Labor in paperback (165 pages).
Dennis Shasha introduces Doctor Jacob Ecco, a mathematical detective who solves puzzles through heuristics and logical reasoning. The narrative invites readers to accompany the protagonist in his cases, exploring mathematics in an entertaining and participatory way.
First edition, translated by Luis Bou, published in 1989. ISBN-10: 8433551442.
For curious readers who enjoy puzzles and want to approach mathematics from a playful and narrative perspective.
Dennis Elliot Shasha is an American professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, a division of New York University. He is also an associate director of NYU WIRELESS. His current areas of research include work done with biologists on pattern discovery for microarrays, combinatorial design, network inference, and protein docking; work done with physicists, musicians, and professionals in finance on algorithms for time series; and work on database applications in untrusted environments. Other areas of interest include database tuning and tree and graph matching.
