by Ian Stewart · Editorial Crítica · tapa dura · ISBN 9788484326175
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«Locos por las matemáticas» is Ian Stewart's popular mathematics book, published by Editorial Crítica in hardcover (208 pages, in Spanish).
Stewart presents mathematics as a territory of play and intellectual adventure, with challenges ranging from probability in Monopoly to winning strategies in mathematical games. It includes why every culture has its own calendar, proofs of impossibility, the fall of buttered toast, and how many workers the Great Pyramid of Cheops required.
Part of the Drakontos collection, volume 1. Originally published as Math Hysteria: Fun and Games with Mathematics.
For a general audience interested in science popularization and recreational mathematics.
Ian Nicholas Stewart is a British mathematician and a popular-science, textbooks, and science-fiction books writer. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, England.
