Author: Ian Stewart
By OUP Oxford

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Takes some effort, but well worth it., 2010-05-24
Math Hysteria, and its follow-up How to Cut a Cake, are great books if you are interested in recreational mathematics and are not a mathematician but have a decent background in mathematics. The books has fewer topics than Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, but they are discussed much more deeply. They are also not so well known, but they are certainly highly interesting. For example, the first chapter is on statements that initially seem to contain no information at all, but, once you take into account what other people involved know, allow one to deduce everything that there is to know. Moreover, there are two chapters on the game Monopoly, a chapter on how to cut up a figure and to use the pieces to form a different shape, a chapter on sums of squares that form a square, a chapter on how to light with a candle a room with mirrors, and many others. If you want to know more of the topics in the book, it even has a list of references for further reading.

Author: Ian Stewart
By Oxford Paperbacks

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Brilliant Introduction to Modern Mathematics, 2004-05-10
A Brilliant introduction to everything that is modern about mathematics and includes all the latest developments including proofs of the famous Fermat's Last Theorem and the Four-Colour problem. Readers familiar with Ian Stewart will be unsurprised to find his clear, concise and humourous approach to Maths and his great enthusiasm for the subject is portrayed through this book. A great read and brilliant for those who want a readable, accurate yet not too technical account of the latest developmnents in Mathematics.

Author: Ian Stewart
By Profile Books

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Intelligent, erudite, very well written, very well explained!, 2010-06-06
I bought this book as a gift for a cousin who likes me, loves mathematics. I thought I'd cheekily be able to read it beforehand, and boy, does it delight! It certainly gripped me: the puzzles are absorbing and presented in such an approachable manner. It even got me, formally trained in the subject, interested in looking up those other areas I've not looked at in years. And the recipient of the gift felt likewise too.

This is certainly popular science writing at its finest, a joy for the reader, and an inspiration for us all scientists/mathematicians/engineers who sometimes work with the public.

Author: Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins
By Oxford University Press Inc

A lucid and exciting introduction indeed, 2009-11-02
What Courant and Robbins have managed to do is to write a book that not only introduces to some of the most fascinating aspects of mathematics, in a beautiful, challenging way, but also encourages you to think beyond the confines of the question. Perhaps Einstein was rather overoptimistic when he called it easily understandable, but nonetheless, I think it is the challenge that makes it exciting, because where would the fun be if you could it all in 5 minutes? And, it is usually in thinking about something like this that you gain a more intimate understanding of and deeper appreciation for it.
Covering everything from Number Theory to Constructive and Projective Geometry, Limits and Topology, this is well worth the price.

Author: Ian Stewart
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A magical mathematical cabinet, 2009-12-09
This book is a worthy successor to Professor Stewart's previous best seller. Full of entertainments for anybody with a fascination for mathematics, that under appreciated foundation to our science and technology, and for some of us one of the deepest of interests and a continuing delight.

The book is stimulating, entertaining, amusing and informative. If you have the slightest interest, buy it and read it.

Author: Ian Stewart
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Recreational mathematics at its best., 2010-05-24
How to Cut a Cake, and its predecessor Math Hysteria, are great books if you are interested in recreational mathematics and are not a mathematician but have a decent background in mathematics. The book has fewer topics than Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, but they are discussed much more deeply. They are also not so well known, but they are certainly highly interesting. There are two chapters on how to cut a cake so that everyone thinks that he gets a fair share, a chapter on different ways to tie your shoe laces and how long the laces have to be, a chapter on packing circles, a chapter on how the shuffle a pack of cards, a chapter on tangled phone cords, and many others. If you want to know more of the topics in the book, it even has a list of references for further reading.

Author: Ian Stewart
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A magical mathematical cabinet, 2009-12-09
This book is a worthy successor to Professor Stewart's previous best seller. Full of entertainments for anybody with a fascination for mathematics, that under appreciated foundation to our science and technology, and for some of us one of the deepest of interests and a continuing delight.

The book is stimulating, entertaining, amusing and informative. If you have the slightest interest, buy it and read it.

Author: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack S. Cohen
By Ebury Press

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Possibly the best science books in this world or the Discworld, 2008-10-29
The Science of Discworld series books are simply some of the best science books around. As a Pratchett fan, and at one point a working scientist, I knew a lot of the science in both books, but the presentation of the material made me rethink many of my ideas, and get a better grasp of the scientific viewpoint. Aspiring scientists much read, digest and understand. I simply don't understand the reviews with less than 5 stars, they must have been reading a different book.

Author: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack S. Cohen
By Ebury Press

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the science of discworld, 2010-01-09
yet another essential read for discworld fans, this is not your usual outing into the world of mad wizards, instead its part story and part background, all in all still worth owning

Author: Ian Stewart, Vann Joines
By Lifespace Publishing

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An excellent introduction to the world of Transactional Analysis., 2010-06-01
An excellent introduction to the world of Transactional Analysis. This book can help you to really begin to understand yourself and your relationships with others. Simply excellent