Book:Ian Stewart/Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

Ian Stewart: Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

Published $\text {2008}$, Profile

ISBN 978 1 846 68345 9

Contents

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Alien Encounter

Tap-an-Animal

Curious Calculations

Triangle of Cards

Pop-up Dodecahedron

Sliced Fingers

Turnip for the Books

The Four-Colour Theorem

Shaggy Dog Story

Shaggy Cat Story

Rabbits in the Hat

River Crossing 1 - Farm Produce

More Curious Calculations

Extracting the Cherry

Make Me a Pentagon

What is $\pi$?

Legislating the Value of $\pi$

If They Had Passed It ...

Empty glasses

How Many -

Three Quickies

Knight's Tours

Much Undo About Knotting

White-Tailed Cats

To Find Fake Coin

Perpetual Calendar

Mathematical Jokes 1

Deceptive Dice

An Age-Old Old-Age Problem

Why Does Minus Times Minus Make Plus?

Heron Suit

How to Unmake a Greek Cross

How to Remember a Round Number

The Bridges of Königsberg

How to do Lots of Mathematics

Euler's Pentagonal Holiday

Ouroborean Rings

The Ourotorus

Who Was Pythagoras?

Proofs of Pythagoras

A Constant Bore

Fermat's Last Theorem

Pythagorean Triples

Prime Factoids

A Little-Known Pythagorean Curiosity

Digital Century

Squaring the Square

Magic Squares

Squares of Squares

Ring a-Ring a-Ringroad

Pure v. Applied

Magic Hexagon

Pentalpha

Wallpaper Patterns

How Old Was Diophantus?

If You Thought Mathematicians Were Good at Arithmetic ...

The Sphinx is a Reptile

Six Degrees of Separation

Trisectors Beware!

Langford's Cubes

Duplicating the Cube

Magic Stars

Curves of Constant Width

Connecting Cables

Coin Swap

The Stolen Car

Space-Filling Curves

Compensating Errors

The Square Wheel

Why Can't I Divide by Zero?

River Crossing 2 - Marital Mistrust

Srvherefore Art Thou Borromeo?

Percentage Play

Kinds of People

The Sausage Conjecture

Tom Fool's Knot

New Merology

Numerical Spell

Spelling Mistakes

Expanding Universe

What is the Golden Number?

What are the Fibonacci Numbers?

The Plastic Number

Family Occasion

Don't Let Go!

Theorem: All Numbers are Interesting

Theorem: All Numbers are Boring

The Most Likely Digit

Why Call lt a Witch?

Möbius and His Band

Golden Oldie

Three More Quickies

Miles of Tiles

Chaos Theory

Après-Le-Ski

Pick's Theorem

Mathematical Prizes

Why No Nobel for Maths?

Is There a Perfect Cuboid?

Paradox Lost

When Will My MP3 Player Repeat?

Six Pens

Patented Primes

The Poincaré Conjecture

Hippopotamian Logic

Langton's Ant

Pig on a Rope

The Surprise Examination

Antigravity Cone

Mathematical Jokes 2

Why Gauss Became a Mathematician

What Shape is a Crescent Moon?

Famous Mathematicians

What is a Mersenne Prime?

The Goldbach Conjecture

Turtles All the Way Down

Hilbert's Hotel

Continuum Coaches

A Puzzling Dissection

A Really Puzzling Dissection

Nothing Up My Sleeve ...

Nothing Down My Leg ...

Two Perpendiculars

Can You Hear the Shape of a Drum?

What is e, and Why?

May Husband and Ay ...

Many Knees, Many Seats

Euler's Formula

What Day is It?

Strictly Logical

Logical or Not?

A Question of Breeding

Fair Shares

The Sixth Deadly Sin

Weird Arithmetic

How Deep is the Well?

MacMahon's Squares

What is the Square Root of Minus One?

The Most Beautiful Formula

Why is Euler's Beautiful Formula True?

Your Call May be Monitored for Training Purposes

Archimedes, You Old Fraud!

Fractals - The Geometry of Nature

The Missing Symbol

Where There's a Wall, There's a Way

Constants to 50 Places

Richard's Paradox

Connecting Utilities

Are Hard Problems Easy? or How to Win a Million Dollars by Proving the Obvious

Don't Get the Goat

All Triangles are Isosceles

Square Year

Gödel's Theorems

If $\pi$ isn't a Fraction, How Can You Calculate It?

Infinite Wealth

Let Fate Decide

How Many -

What Shape is a Rainbow?

Alien Abduction

The Riemann Hypothesis

Anti-Atheism

Disproof of the Riemann Hypothesis

Murder in the Park

The Cube of Cheese

The Game of Life

Two-Horse Race

Drawing an Ellipse - and More?

Mathematical Jokes 3

The Kepler Problem

The Milk Crate Problem

Equal Rights

Road Network

Tautoverbs

Complexity Science

Scrabble Oddity

Dragon Curve

Counterflip

Spherical sliced Bread

Mathematical Theology

Professor Stewart's Cunning Crib Sheet