Mathematics for the Imagination

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Product details

  • ISBN 9780198604600
  • Weight: 255g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Sep 2002
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Mathematics for the Imagination provides an accessible and entertaining investigation into mathematical problems in the world around us. From world navigation, family trees, and calendars to patterns, tessellations, and number tricks, this informative and fun new book helps you to understand the maths behind real-life questions and rediscover your arithmetical mind. This is a follow-up to the popular Mathematics for the Curious, Peter Higgins's first investigation into real-life mathematical problems. A highly involving book which encourages the reader to enter into the spirit of mathematical exploration.
Professor of Mathematics at the University of Essex, Peter Higgins is the author of the successful Mathematics for the Curious, (OUP, 1998), and Techniques of Semigroup Theory.