Citation
(2009), "Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities", Kybernetes, Vol. 38 No. 9. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2009.06738iae.007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2009, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
Article Type: Book reports From: Kybernetes, Volume 38, Issue 9
Ian StewartProfile BooksLondon2008310 pp.ISBN: 978-1-84668-064-9£10.99 (hardback)
The author is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University, UK and has a reputation for publicising mathematics and indeed adding to its popularity. To produce this book, he has delved back into the store of mathematical curiosities he has collected over the years. We are told that it started when he was 14 years old. Fortunately, and unlike many scientific disciplines, most mathematical puzzles, stories, games, etc. do not date with time. Even his jokes, even if you may have heard them before when they were told by your mathematics teachers, do not date easily and he does tell them in a very refreshing way.
There is plenty of interesting material included in the book and it should delight readers. One reviewer has already written that "This is a superb Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities that deserves a place with the classics of the genre."