From the author of 'The Music of the Primes' and 'Finding
Moonshine' comes a short, lively book on five mathematical problems
that just refuse be solved - and on how many everyday problems can
be solved by maths. Every time we download a song from Itunes, take
a flight across the Atlantic or talk on our mobile phones, we are
relying on great mathematical inventions. Maths may fail to provide
answers to various of its own problems, but it can provide answers
to problems that don't seem to be its own - how prime numbers are
the key to Real Madrid's success, to secrets on the Internet and to
the survival of insects in the forests of North America. In 'The
Number Mysteries', Marcus du Sautoy explains how to fake a Jackson
Pollock; how to work out whether or not the universe has a hole in
the middle of it; how to make the world's roundest football. He
shows us how to see shapes in four dimensions - and how maths makes
you a better gambler. He tells us about the quest to predict the
future - from the flight of asteroids to an impending storm, from
bending a ball like Beckham to predicting population growth. It's a
book to dip in to; a book to challenge and puzzle - and a book that
gives us answers.
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