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Published by Penguin Books, 1997
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- Title
- The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Mathematics
- Author
- Wells, David
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0140236031
- ISBN 13
- 9780140236033
A collection of strange mathematical facts and stories. This anthology covers a whole range of ages, maths and mathematicians, and includes probability paradoxes, jumbled Shakespearean sonnets, record-breaking monkeys and typewriters, and theories of big game hunting. Also featured are stories of people who looked for logical loopholes in the American Constitution, calmed their nerves with algebra or used sextants to measure the buttocks of Hottentot women.
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