00000cam a22000007a 4500 UP-99796217610899070 Buklod 20130808090221.0 a r |||| u| ta 100615s2010 xx abc rb |001 0|eng d 9783642048326 (hbk.) (iLib)UPD-00200304541 DSCI eng lccopycat QA 93 C7313 2010 Crato, Nuno. Figuring it out entertaining encounters with everyday math Nuno Crato. Heidelberg New York Springer c2010. ix, 227 p. ill., maps, ports. 25 cm. Translated from the Portuguese. aIncludes bibliographical references and index. aThis is a book of mathematical stories, funny and puzzling mathematical stories. They tell of villains who try to steal secrets, heroes who encode their messages, and mathematicians who spend years on end searching for the best way to pile oranges. There are also stories about highway confusions occurring when the rules of Cartesian geometry are ignored, small-change errors due to ignorance of ancient paradoxes, and mistakes in calendars arising from poor numerical approximations. This book is about the power and beauty of mathematics. It shows mathematics in action, explained in a way that everybody can understand. Mathematics Popular works. UPD DIM QA 93 C7313 2010 Book