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A retitled and revised edition of Ian Stewart's The Problem of Mathematics, this is the perfect guide to today's mathematics. Read about the latest discoveries, including Andrew Wile's amazing proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, the newest advances in knot theory, the Four Colour Theorem, Chaos Theory, and fake four-dimensional spaces. See how simple concepts from probability theory shed light on the National Lottery and tell you how to maximize your winnings. Discover how infinitesimals become respectable, why there are different kinds of infinity, and how to square the circle with the mathematical equivalent of a pair of scissors. (From the publisher)

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1 The Nature of Mathematics
2 The Price of Primality
3 Marginal Interest
4 Parallel Thinking
5 The Miraculous Jar
6 Ghosts of Departed Quantities
7 The Duellist and the Monster
8 The Purple Wallflower
9 Much Ado About Knotting
10 More Ado About Knotting
11 Squarerooting the Unsquarerootable
12 Squaring the Unsquarable
13 Strumpet Fortune
14 The Mathematics of Nature
15 The Patterns of Chaos
16 The Two-and-a-Halfth Dimension
17 Dixit Algorizmi
18 The Limits of Computability
19 The Ultimate in Technology Transfer
Further Reading
Index