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A Dingo Ate My Math Book

Mathematics from Down Under
  • ISBN-13: 9781470435219
  • Publisher: AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
    Imprint: AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
  • By Burkard Polster, By Marty Ross
  • Price: AUD $102.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 29/05/2018
  • Format: Paperback (254.00mm X 178.00mm) 272 pages Weight: 660g
  • Categories: Mathematics [PB]
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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.
Burkard Polster, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Marty Ross, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
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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