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|a Professor Stewart's cabinet of mathematical curiosities /
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|a Cabinet of mathematical curiosities
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|a 1. Alien encounter -- 2. Tap-an-animal -- 3. Curious calculations -- 4. Triangle of cards -- 5. Pop-up dodecahedron -- 6. Sliced fingers -- 7. Turnip for the books -- 8. The four-colour theorem -- 9. Shaggy dog story -- 10. Rabbits in the hat -- 11. River crossing 1 -- farm produce -- 12. More curious calculations -- 13. Extracting the cherry -- 14. Make me a pentagon -- 15. What is π? -- 16. Legislating the value of π -- 17. If they had passed it ... -- 18. Empty glasses -- 19. How many- -- 20. Three quickies -- 21. Knight's tours -- 22. Much ado about knotting -- 23. White-tailed cats -- 24. To find fake coin -- 25. Perpetual calendar -- 26. Mathematical jokes 1 -- 27. Deceptive dice -- 28. An age-old old-age problem -- 29. Why does minus times minus make plus? -- 30. Heron suit -- 31. How to unmake a Greek cross -- 32. How to remember a round number -- 33. The bridges of Konigsberg -- 34. How to do lots of mathematics -- 35. Euler's pentagonal holiday -- 36. Ouroborean rings -- 37. The ourotorus -- 38. Who was Pythagoras -- 39. Proofs of Pythagoras -- 40. A constant bore -- 41. Fermat's last theorem -- 42. Pythagorean triples -- 43. Prime factoids -- 44. A little-known Pythagorean curiosity -- 45. Digital century -- 46. Squaring the square -- 47. Magic squares -- 48. Squares of squares -- 49. Ring a-ring a-ringroad -- 50. Pure v. applied -- 51. Magic hexagon -- 52. Pentalpha -- 53. Wallpaper patterns -- 54. How old was Diophantus? -- 55. If you thought mathematicians were good at arithmetic -- 56. The sphinx is a reptile -- 57. Six degrees of separation -- 58. Trisectors beware! -- 59. Langford's cubes -- 60. Duplicating the star -- 61. Magic stars -- 62. Curves of constant width -- 63. Connecting cables -- 64. Coin swap -- 65. The stolen car -- 66. Space-filling curves -- 67. Compensating errors -- 68. The square wheel -- 69. Why can't I divide by zero? -- 70. River crossing 2, marital mistrust -- 71. Wherefore art thou Borromeo -- 72. Percentage play -- 73. Kinds of people -- 74. The sausage conjecture -- 75. Tom fool's knot -- 76. New merology -- 77. Numerical spell -- 78. Spelling mistakes -- 79. Expanding universe -- 80. what is the golden number? -- 81. What are the Fibonacci numbers? -- 82. The plastic number -- 83. Family occasion -- 84. Don't let go! -- 85. Theorem: all numbers are interesting -- 86. Theorem: all numbers are boring -- 87. The most likely digit -- 88. Why is it called a witch? -- 89. Mobius and his band -- 90. Golden oldie -- 91. Three more quickies -- 92. Miles of tiles -- 93. Chaos theory -- 94. Apres-le-ski -- 95. Pick's theory -- 96. Mathematical prizes -- 97. Why no nobel for Maths -- 98. Is there a perfect cuboid -- 99. Paradox lost -- 100. When will my mp3 player repeat -- 101. Six pens -- 102. Patented primes -- 103. The Poincare conjecture -- 104. Hippopotamian logic -- 105. Langton's ant -- 106. Pig on a rope -- 107. The surprise examination -- 108. Antigravity cone -- 109. Mathematical jokes -- 110. Why Gauss became a mathematician -- 111. What shape is a crescent moon? -- 112. Famous mathematicians -- 113. What is a Mersenne prime? -- 114. The Goldbach conjecture -- 115. Turtles all the way down -- 116. Hilbert's hotel -- 117. Continuum coaches -- 118. A puzzling dissection -- 119. A really puzzling dissection -- 120. Nothing up my sleeve ... -- 121. Nothing down my leg ... -- 122. Two perpendiculars -- 123. Can you hear the shape of a drum? -- 124. What is e, and why? -- 125. May husband and ay -- 126. Many knees, many seats -- 127. Euler's formula -- 128. What day is it? -- 129. Strictly logical -- 130. Logical or not? -- 131. A question of breeding -- 132. Fair shares -- 133. The sixth deadly sin -- 134. Weird arithmetic -- 135. How deep is the well? -- 136. McMahon's squares -- 137. What is the square root of minus one? -- 138. The most beautiful formula -- 139. Why is Euler's beautiful formula true? -- 140. Your call may be monitored for training purposes -- 141. Archimedes, you old fraud -- 142. Fractals- the geometry of nature -- 143. The missing symbol -- 144. Where there's a wall, there's a way -- 145. Constants to 50 places -- 146. Richard's paradox -- 147. Connecting utilities -- 148. Are hard problems easy? or how to win a million dollars by proving the obvious -- 149. Don't get the goat -- 150. All triangles are isosceles -- 151. Square year -- 152. Godel's theorems -- 153. If π isn't a fraction, how can you calculate it? -- 154. Infinite wealth -- 155. Let fate decide -- 156. How many- -- 157. What shape is a rainbow -- 158. Alien abduction -- 159. The Riemann hypothesis -- 160. Anti-atheism -- 161. Disproof of the Riemann hypothesis -- 162. Murder in the park -- 163. The cube of cheese -- 164. The game of life -- 165. Two-horse race -- 166. Drawing an ellipse -- and more? -- 167. Mathematical jokes 3 -- 168. The Kepler problem -- 169. The milk crate problem -- 170. Equal rights -- 171. Road network -- 172. Tautoverbs -- 173. Complexity science -- 174. Scrabble oddity -- 175. Dragon curve -- 176. Counterflip -- 177. Spherical sliced bread -- 178. Mathematical theology -- 179. Professor Stewart's cunning crib sheet.
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