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Do I Count?: Stories from Mathematics / Edition 1
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Do I Count?: Stories from Mathematics / Edition 1
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Do I Count?: Stories from Mathematics / Edition 1
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The subject of mathematics is not something distant, strange, and abstract that you can only learn about—and often dislike—in school. It is in everyday situations, such as housekeeping, communications, traffic, and weather reports. Taking you on a trip into the world of mathematics,
describes the people behind the numbers and the places where mathematics is made.
- Can bees count? What do you think!
- Is 13 bad luck?
- Are there equations for everything?
- What’s the real practical value of the Pythagorean Theorem?
- Are there Sudoku puzzles with fewer than 17 entries and just one solution?
- Where and how do mathematicians work?
- Who invented proofs and why do we need them?
- Why is there no Nobel Prize for mathematics?
- What kind of life did Paul Erdős
- lead?
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