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Putting Two and Two Together is a humorous and quirky collection of
unusual, ingenious, and beautiful morsels of mathematics. Authors
Burkard Polster (YouTube's Mathologer) and Marty Ross delve into
mathematical puzzles and phenomena in engaging stories featuring
current events, sports, and history, many flavored with a
distinctive bit of Australiana. Each chapter ends with ""puzzles to
ponder"" that will spur further reflection. These stories were
written for a general audience, and originally appeared in the
Maths Masters column in The Age newspaper. The book offers
mathematical entertainment for curious readers of all ages, and
assumes a minimum of mathematical background.
This set includes two humorous and quirky collections of
mathematical morsels by Burkard Polster (YouTube's Mathologer) and
Marty Ross-Putting Two and Two Together: Selections from the
Mathologer Files and A Dingo Ate My Math Book: Mathematics from
Down Under. The stories in both volumes were written for a general
audience and cover current events, sports, and history all flavored
with a distinctive bit of Australiana. Both books offer
mathematical entertainment for curious readers of all ages and
assume a minimum of mathematical background.
A Dingo Ate My Math Book presents ingenious, unusual, and beautiful
nuggets of mathematics with a distinctly Australian flavor. It
focuses, for example, on Australians' love of sports and gambling,
and on Melbourne's iconic, mathematically inspired architecture.
Written in a playful and humorous style, the book offers
mathematical entertainment as well as a glimpse of Australian
culture for the mathematically curious of all ages. This collection
of engaging stories was extracted from the Maths Masters column
that ran from 2007 to 2014 in Australia's Age newspaper. The maths
masters in question are Burkard Polster and Marty Ross, two
(immigrant) Aussie mathematicians, who each week would write about
math in the news, providing a new look at old favorites,
mathematical history, quirks of school mathematics-whatever took
their fancy. All articles were written for a very general audience,
with the intention of being as inviting as possible and assuming a
minimum of mathematical background.
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