Book:Ian Stewart/Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures

Contents

 * Acknowledgements


 * Second Drawer Down


 * Calculator Curiosity
 * Year Turned Upside Down
 * Luckless Lovelorn Lilavati
 * Sixteen Matches
 * Swallowing Elephants
 * Magic Circle
 * Dodgem
 * Press-the-Digit-ation
 * Secrets of the Abacus
 * Redbeard's Treasure
 * Hexaflexagons
 * Who Invented the Equals Sign?
 * Stars and Snips
 * By the Numbers of Babylon
 * Magic Hexagons
 * The Collatz-Syracuse-Ulam Problem
 * The Jeweller's Dilemma
 * What Seamus Didn't Know
 * Why Toast Always Falls Buttered-Side Down

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