But when I turned the handle on the door, suddenly the buzzing went
crazy. I slapped my hands over my ears, when I should have jerked
the door shut. It flew open, and I was face-to-face with the
Weierstrass function. It was the ugliest function I could imagine,
with kinks, and kinks on kinks and kinks on those. And it was
shrieking in its buzz-like way, vibrating all over like a plucked
string. I stood there, frozen for just a second, and then I was
sprinting after the others, with the wild frantic buzzing right
behind me.'' From the twisted imagination of best-selling author
Colin Adams (Zombies & Calculus, The Knot Book) comes this tale
of sixteen-year-old Kallie trying to escape death at the hands of
the exhibits in a mathematics museum. Kallie crosses paths with
Carl Gauss, Bertrand Russell, Sophie Germain, G. H. Hardy, and John
von Neumann, as she tries to save herself, her dad, and his
colleague Maria from the deadly Hairy Ball theorem, the harrowing
Hilbert Hotel, the bisecting Ham Sandwich machine, and a variety of
other mathematical menaces. It's a wild romp through a mathematical
bestiary featuring the bizarre, the exotic, and the
counterintuitive. You'll never think of math the same way again.
General
Imprint: |
American Mathematical Society
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library |
Release date: |
July 2022 |
Authors: |
Colin Adams
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
209 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4704-6858-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Mathematics >
General
|
LSN: |
1-4704-6858-1 |
Barcode: |
9781470468583 |
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