A Dingo Ate My Math Book presents ingenious, unusual, and beautiful nuggets of mathematics with a distinctly Australian flavor. It focuses, for example, on Australians' love of sports and gambling, and on Melbourne's iconic, mathematically inspired architecture. Written in a playful and humorous style, the book offers mathematical entertainment as well as a glimpse of Australian culture for the mathematically curious of all ages. This collection of engaging stories was extracted from the Maths Masters column that ran from 2007 to 2014 in Australia's Age newspaper. The maths masters in question are Burkard Polster and Marty Ross, two (immigrant) Aussie mathematicians, who each week would write about math in the news, providing a new look at old favorites, mathematical history, quirks of school mathematics-whatever took their fancy. All articles were written for a very general audience, with the intention of being as inviting as possible and assuming a minimum of mathematical background.
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Presents ingenious, unusual, and beautiful nuggets of mathematics with a distinctly Australian flavour. It focuses, for example, on Australians' love of sports and gambling, and on Melbourne's iconic, mathematically inspired architecture. Written in a playful style, the book offers mathematical entertainment as well as a glimpse of Australian culture for the mathematically curious of all ages.
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  • A day in Australia
  • Sports rules!
  • Aussie heroes
  • Melbourne, city of mathematics
  • A lotto gambling
  • Keeping the bastards honest
  • Canned life
  • Money, money, money
  • Family life
  • Here, there and everywhere
  • TV snacks
  • The Australian math wars
  • The critics at work
  • Appendix.
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    Produktdetaljer

    ISBN
    9781470435219
    Publisert
    2018-02-28
    Utgiver
    American Mathematical Society
    Vekt
    660 gr
    Høyde
    254 mm
    Bredde
    178 mm
    Aldersnivå
    P, 06
    Språk
    Product language
    Engelsk
    Format
    Product format
    Heftet
    Antall sider
    272

    Biografisk notat

    Burkard Polster, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

    Marty Ross, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.