48 uitgaven gevonden in Ian Stewart
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Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the earth and the planets to the galaxy and the universe. He describes how galaxies, stars and planets form, why stars implode,...
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Toen hij veertien jaar was, begon Ian Stewart, een van de beroemdste wiskundigen van nu, met een wiskundenotitieboekje. Als een ekster verzamelde hij alles wat hij kon vinden over wiskunde...
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From ancient Babylon to the last great unsolved problems, an acclaimed mathematician and popular science writer brings us his witty, engaging, and definitive history of mathematics
In his...
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Leading mathematician and author Ian Stewart explores a concept both simple and complex, both multi-disciplinary and unifying - symmetry. There is no more important concept in the history of...
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Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1 to 10 to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would span the universe. He looks at every kind...
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Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the formation of the Earth and its Moon to the planets and asteroids of the solar system and from there out into the galaxy and...
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School maths is not interesting, but here Stewart has collected together the most exciting, enlightening and entertaining games, puzzles, facts and numbers for the curiously minded. From...
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"In Ian Stewart we at last have a worthy successor to that dean of recreational mathematics, Martin Gardner...Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into "...contains a fasci
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Expounds on the theory that immutable laws can react randomly, highlighting the irregularities in nature
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A definitive and accessible history of mathematics, covering the theories and major figures, from this writer who has done much to popularise the subject, with his previous titles }Nature's...
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Like its wildly popular predecessors 'Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities' and 'Hoard of Mathematical Treasures', this book is a miscellany of over 150 mathematical curios and conundrums,...
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The bestselling author explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos,...
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Mathematics has been the driving force in astronomy and cosmology since the ancient Egyptians. This is a guide to the cosmos that moves from the earth and the planets to the galaxy and the...
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Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper?...
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Wie vond het getal nul uit? Waar kruisen parallelle lijnen elkaar? En wanneer maakte je vandaag gebruik van abstracte algebra? (Ja, dat heb je gedaan!)
Van de eerste getallen tot de...
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A mathematical sightseeing tour of the natural world from the author of THE MAGICAL MAZE Why do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have...
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Like its wildly popular predecessors Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities and Hoard of Mathematical Treasures, Professor Stewart's brand-new book is a miscellany of over 150 mathematical...
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Until the middle of this century, it was completely unclear whether life had any kind of inorganic basis. The discovery of the first secret of life, the molecular structure of DNA, solved...
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Ian 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...
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Inside this small (but perfectly formed) hardback there lurks some of the most devilishly difficult mathematical brainteasers human beings have yet devised. Woven into them are marvellously...
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Welcome to Ian Stewart's strange and magical world of mathematics! In Math Hysteria, Professor Stewart presents us with a wealth of magical puzzles, each one spun around an amazing tale:...
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A new partnership of biologists and mathematicians is picking apart the hidden complexity of animals and plants to throw fresh light on the behaviour of entire organisms, how they interact,...
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Think of the stripes of a zebra and the complexities of a spider¿s web. Think of a snowflake¿ These are natural patterns that have been recognized for centuries, and they can all be...
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Matematiske gåder.
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The Collapse of Chaos is the first post-chaos, post-complexity book, a groundbreaking inquiry into how simplicity in nature is generated from chaos and complexity. Rather than asking...
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Traditionally science tries to answer the question- How does complexity arise in nature? But, say Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart in their exhilarating book, the more interesting question is- Why...
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The Collapse of Chaos is the first post-chaos, post-complexity book, a groundbreaking inquiry into how simplicity in nature is generated from chaos and complexity. Rather than asking...
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On the ocean planet No-Moon, Second-Best Sailor contentedly lives the life of a mariner plying his trade with visiting space-dwelling Neanderthals. When his reefwife discovers that a mission...
