Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2011) Over the last 22 years

Over the last 22 years

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Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2011) Over the last 22 yearsIan Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's "Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities", presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern mathematical thought, appallingly hilarious mathematical jokes, and enquiries into the great mathematical challenges of the present and past. Amongst a host of arcane and astonishing facts about every kind of number