A New York Times Bestseller
Arthur Benjamin joyfully shows you how to make nature's numbers dance.
The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had in school. Using a delightful assortment of examples, from ice-cream scoops and poker hands to measuring mountains and making magic squares, this book revels in key mathematical fields including arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and calculus, plus Fibonacci numbers, infinity, and, of course, mathematical magic tricks.
Known throughout the world as the mathemagician, Arthur Benjamin mixes mathematics and magic to make the subject fun, attractive, and easy to understand for math fan and math-phobic alike.
A positively joyful exploration of mathematics, Publishers Weekly, starred review.
Each trick is more dazzling than the last, Physics World.
Pages: 336, Year of Publication: 0906, Dimensions: 14x14cm
Manufacturer
- Author
- Arthur Benjamin
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Type
- Mathematics of Positive Sciences
- Language
- English
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- Soft
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- ISBN-13
- 9780465096213
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