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
 * The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
 * The Missing Piece
 * The Other Coconut
 * What Does Zeno?
 * Pieces of Five
 * Pi in the Sky
 * The Curious Incident of the Dog
 * Mathematics Made Difficult
 * A Weird Fact about Egyptian Fractions
 * A Four Colour Theorem
 * Serpent of Perpetual Darkness
 * What Are the Odds?
 * A Potted History of Mathematics
 * The Shortest Mathematical Joke Ever
 * Global Warming Swindle
 * Name the Cards
 * What Is Point Nine Recurring?
 * Ghost of a Departed Quantity
 * Nice Little Earner
 * A Puzzle for Leonardo
 * Congruent Numbers
 * Present-Minded Somewhere Else
 * It's About Time
 * Do I Avoid Kangaroos?
 * The Klein Bottle
 * Accounting the Digits
 * Multiplying with Sticks
 * As Long as I Gaze on Laplacian Sunrise
 * Another Take on Mathematical Cats
 * Bordered Prime Magic Square
 * The Green-Tao Theorem
 * Peaucellier's Linkage
 * A Better Approximation to $\pi$
 * Strictly for Calculus Buffs
 * The Statue of Pallas Athene
 * Calculator Curiosity 3
 * Completing the Square
 * The Look and Say Sequence
 * Non-Mathematicians Musing About Mathematics
 * Euler's Conjecture
 * The Millionth Digit
 * Piratical Pathways
 * Trains That Pass in the Siding
 * Please Make Yourself Clear
 * Squares, Lists and Digital Sums
 * Hilbert's Hit-List
 * Match Trick
 * Which Hospital Should Close?
 * How to Turn a Sphere Inside Out
 * A Piece of String Walked into a Bar ...
 * Slicing the Cake
 * The Origin of the Symbol for Pi
 * Hall of Mirrors
 * Greek and Trojan Asteroids
 * Sliding Coins
 * Beat That!
 * Euclid's Puzzle
 * The Infinite Monkey Theorem
 * Monkeys Against Evolution
 * Universal Letter of Reference
 * Snakes and Adders
 * Powerful Crossnumber
 * Magic Handkerchiefs
 * A Bluffer's Guide to Symmetry
 * Digital Century Revisited
 * An Infinity of Primes
 * A Century in Fractions
 * Ah, That Explains lt ...
 * Life, Recursion and Everything
 * False, Not Stated, Not Proved
 * Proof That $2 + 2 = 4$
 * Slicing the Doughnut
 * The Kissing Number
 * Tippe Top Twister
 * When Is a Knot Not Knotted?
 * The Origin of the Factorial Symbol
 * Juniper Green
 * Mathematical Metajoke
 * Beyond the Fourth Dimension
 * Slade's Braid
 * Avoiding the Neighbours
 * Career Move
 * A Rolling Wheel Gathers No Speed
 * Point Placement Problem
 * Chess in Flatland
 * The Infinite Lottery
 * Ships That Pass ...
 * The Largest Number is Forty-Two
 * A Future History of Mathematics


 * Professor Stewart's Superlative Storehouse of Sneaky Solutions and Stimulating Supplements