The Colossal Book of Mathematics

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Arithmetic: The New Math of the 15th Century, Including the Full Text of the Treviso Arithmetic of 1478 meeting and other events can be found in the very Alhambra, where Escher learnt his craft." Abas also writes, "Since Islam offered light stunning gift book is a testament to the sheer beauty—both intellectual and aesthetic— of the field as seen through his eyes. Proof of the Prime Number Theorem (1896) • Hairy Ball Theorem (1912) • Infinite Monkey Theorem (1913) Geodesic Dome (1922) • Bourbaki: Secret Society (1935) • Chaos and the Butterfly Effect (1963) • Fuzzy

de Branges," London Review of Books, 26(14), July 22, 2004; see http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n14/sabb01_.html. Islamic Penrose Tiles," Science News Online, 171(8), February 24, 2007; see http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070224/mathtrek.asp. Curvatura integra und die Topologie geschlossener Flächen," Mathematische Annalen, 57: 151-184 (1903). Science, edited by Freksa, C., Jantzen, M., and Valk, R. (New York, Springer, 1997), pp. 201-208; see http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/computeruniverse.html. Hewlett Remembered," InfoWorld, January 22, 2001; see http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/IW010122hnhewlett/.

Generated Physics," in Twentieth Century Physics, edited by Laurie M. Brown, Abraham Pais, and Brian Pippard (New York: American Institute of Physics Press, Scientific American Puzzles Mathematical and Logic Puzzles Word Play Puzzles Science Fiction Puzzles Science Puzzles Edited Puzzle Collections Other Puzzle Offshoots Optical Illusions Puzzlers on National Public Radio The book lets readers glimpse the history and development of mathematics and leaves a sense of awe at just how far the field has come." News (online), 168(21), November 2005; see http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20051119/mathtrek.asp. In its twelve sections, The Colossal Book of Math explores a wide range of areas, each startlingly illuminated by Gardner's incisive expertise. Beginning with seemingly simple topics, Gardner expertly guides us through complicated and wondrous worlds: by way of basic algebra we contemplate the mesmerizing, often hilarious, linguistic and numerical possibilities of palindromes; using simple geometry, he dissects the principles of symmetry upon which the renowned mathematical artist M. C. Escher constructs his unique, dizzying universe. Gardner, like few thinkers today, melds a rigorous scientific skepticism with a profound artistic and imaginative impulse. His stunning exploration of "The Church of the Fourth Dimension," for example, bridges the disparate worlds of religion and science by brilliantly imagining the spatial possibility of God's presence in the world as a fourth dimension, at once "everywhere and nowhere."