777 Mathematical Conversation Starters
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777 Mathematical Conversation Starters
Author: John de Pillis
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2002
Illustrated book showing that there are few degrees of separation between mathematics and topics that provoke interesting conversations.
777 Mathematical Conversation Starters
777 Mathematical Conversation Starters shows that there are few degrees of separation between mathematics and topics that provoke interesting conversations. The topics presented in this unique book are accessible to mathematicians and non-mathematicians alike. They include thought-provoking conversation starters such as: the value of fame; why language matters; the anatomy of thought; how we know what we know; how the Pythagorean theorem (with very little physics) shows that Einstein was correct about time dilation and distance contraction; and how mathematics produces intuition-defying exampl.