图书简介

1 Introduction; 2 Whatever Happened to A, B, and C?; 3 The 1089 Trick; 4 Another Kind of Magic; 5 Just Imagine...; 6 A Most Unusual Lecture; 7 Why are Mathematicians Obsessed by Proof?; 8 Puzzling Mathematics; 9 Why Does (-1) X (-1) = 1?; 10 It’s a Square World; 11 Algebra in Action; 12 ’Compleating the Square’; 13 Slices of Pi; 14 The Golden Ratio; 15 Proof by Chocolate; 16 The Puzzled Farmer; 17 Mathematics and Snooker; 18 The Wicked Schoolteacher; 19 Trains, Boats, and Planes; 20 I’ve Seen That Before, Somewhere ...; 21 An Apple Falls ...; 22 Rollercoaster Mathematics; 23 The Electric Guitar Revisited; 24 The Domino Effect; 25 Real or Imaginary?; 26 The Square Root of Minus One; 27 Inspector Riemann Investigates ...; 28 Infinite Danger; 29 1 1 to the Rescue!; 30 And Finally ...; Notes and references; Further Reading; Index

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