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The mathematics of OZ mental gymnastics from beyond the edge
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The mathematics of OZ mental gymnastics from beyond the edge

The mathematics of OZ mental gymnastics from beyond the edge

Clifford A. Pickover

364 pages, parution le 30/10/2002

Résumé

Grab a pencil. Relax. Then take off on a mind-boggling journey to the ultimate frontier of math, mind, and meaning as acclaimed author Dr Clifford Pickover, Dorothy, and Dr Oz explore some of the oddest and quirkiest highways and byways of the numerically obsessed. Prepare yourself for a shattering odyssey as The Mathematics of Oz unlocks the doors of your imagination. The thought-provoking mysteries, puzzles, and problems range from zebra numbers and circular primes to Legion's number - a number so big that it makes a trillion pale in comparison. The strange mazes, bizarre consequences, and dizzying arrays of logic problems will entertain people at all levels of mathematical sophistication.

The tests devised by enigmatic Dr Oz to assess human intelligence will tease the brain of even the most avid puzzle fan. Test your wits on a host of mathematical topics: geometry and mazes, sequences, series, sets, arrangements, probability and misdirection, number theory, arithmetic, and even several problems dealing with the physical world. With numerous illustrations, this is an original, fun-filled, and thoroughly unique introduction to numbers and their role in creativity, computers, games, practical research, and absurd adventures that teeter on the edge of logic and insanity. The Mathematics of Oz will have you squirming in frustration and begging for more.

Contents

Puzzles

  1. The Yellow-Brick Road
  2. Animal Array
  3. An Experiment with Kansas
  4. An Experiment with Signs
  5. The Logic of Greenness
  6. Magical Maze
  7. Kansas Railway Contraction
  8. The Problem of the Bones
  9. Square Overdrive
  10. Squares and Cubes
  11. Mr. Plex's Matrix
  12. Chaos in the Clock Factory
  13. The Upsilon Configuration
  14. Bone Toss
  15. Animal Farm Courthouse
  16. Omega Sphere
  17. Leg-Bone Shatter Produces Triangle
  18. Z-Bar Ranch
  19. The Mystery of Phasers
  20. Salty Number Cycle
  21. Where Are the Composites?
  22. Brain Trip
  23. The Gaps of Omicron
  24. Hutchinson Problem
  25. Flint Hills Series
  26. Wacky Tiles
  27. Toto Clone Puzzle
  28. Legion's Number
  29. The Problem of the Tombs
  30. Mr. Plex's Tiles
  31. Phasers on Targets
  32. The Chamber of Death and Despair
  33. Zebra Irrationals
  34. Creatures in Resin
  35. Prime-Poor Equations
  36. Number Satellite
  37. Flatworm Math
  38. Regolith Paradox
  39. [actual symbol not reproducible]
  40. Entropy
  41. Animal Gap
  42. Arranging Alien Heads
  43. Ramanujan Congruences and the Quest for Transcendence
  44. Getting Noticed
  45. Juggler Numbers
  46. Friends from Mars
  47. Phi in Four 4's
  48. On Planet Zyph
  49. The Jellyfish of Europa
  50. Archaeological Dissection
  51. The Gamma Gambit
  52. Robot Hand Hive
  53. Ramanujan and the Quattuordecillion
  54. The Lunatic Ferris Wheel
  55. The Ultimate Spindle
  56. Prairie Artifact
  57. Alien Pellets
  58. The Beauty of Polygon Slicing
  59. Cosmic Call
  60. Knight Moves
  61. Sphere
  62. Potawatomi Target
  63. Sliders
  64. Swapping
  65. Triangle Dissection
  66. A Simple Code
  67. Heterosquares
  68. Insertion
  69. Missing Landscape
  70. The Choice
  71. Animal Selection
  72. The Skeletal Men of Uranus
  73. Hindbrain Stimulation
  74. The Arrays of Absolution
  75. Trochophore Abduction
  76. The Dream Pyramids of Missouri
  77. Mathematical Flower Petal
  78. Blood and Water
  79. Cavern Problem
  80. Three Triplets
  81. Oos and Oob Gambit
  82. Napiform Mathematics
  83. Toto, Mr. Plex, Elephant
  84. Witch Overdrive
  85. What Is Art?
  86. Wendy Magic Square
  87. Heaven and Hell
  88. The Stars of Heaven
  89. Vacation in the Tarantula Nebula
  90. Hot Lava
  91. Circular Primes
  92. The Truth about Cats and Dogs
  93. Disc Mania
  94. n[superscript 2] + m[superscript 2] = s
  95. 2, 271, 2718281
  96. Android Watch
  97. More Knight Moves
  98. Pool Table Gambit
  99. A Connection between [pi] and e
  100. Venusian Number Bush
  101. Triangle Cave
  102. Rat Attack
  103. The Scarecrow Formula
  104. Circle Mathematics
  105. A, AB, ABA
  106. Ants and Cheese
  107. The Omega Crystal
  108. Attack of the Undulating Undecamorphs

L'auteur - Clifford A. Pickover

Diplomé de l'université de Yale, Clifford Pickover est un passionné de maths et un auteur prolifique. Il a publié plus de 40 ouvrages traduits dans plus de douze langues, sur des sujets très variés : mathématiques, informatique, cosmologie, magie, science fiction...

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Éditeur(s) Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s) Clifford A. Pickover
Parution 30/10/2002
Nb. de pages 364
Format 16 x 23,5
Couverture Relié
Poids 650g
Intérieur Noir et Blanc
EAN13 9780521016780
ISBN13 978-0-521-01678-0

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