Name: Do I Count?: Stories from Mathematics
SKU: 56090706
Price: 10567.00 TWD
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Author: Günter M. Ziegler
ISBN: 9781138427228

portada Do I Count?: Stories from Mathematics

Type

Physical Book

Author

Günter M. Ziegler

Publisher

A K PETERS

Language

English

Pages

226

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781138427228

Edition No.

Synopsis "Do I Count?: Stories from Mathematics"

The subject of mathematics is not something distant, strange, and abstract that you can only learn about and often dislike in school. It is in everyday situations, such as housekeeping, communications, traffic, and weather reports. Taking you on a trip into the world of mathematics, Do I Count? Stories from Mathematics describes in a clear and captivating way the people behind the numbers and the places where mathematics is made. Written by top scientist and engaging storyteller G nter M. Ziegler and translated by Thomas von Foerster, the book presents mathematics and mathematicians in a manner that you have not previously encountered. It guides you on a scenic tour through the field, pointing out which beds were useful in constructing which theorems and which notebooks list the prizes for solving particular problems. Forgoing esoteric areas, the text relates mathematics to celebrities, history, travel, politics, science and technology, weather, clever puzzles, and the future. Can bees count? Is 13 bad luck? Are there equations for everything? What's the real practical value of the Pythagorean Theorem? Are there Sudoku puzzles with fewer than 17 entries and just one solution? Where and how do mathematicians work? Who invented proofs and why do we need them? Why is there no Nobel Prize for mathematics? What kind of life did Paul Erdos lead? Find out the answers to these and other questions in this entertaining book of stories. You'll see that everyone counts, but no computation is needed.

Günter M. Ziegler

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Günter M. Ziegler (Munich, 1963) is a prominent German mathematician specialized in discrete geometry and combinatorics. He earned his PhD at MIT in 1987 and has developed his academic career in Germany, serving as a professor at the Technical University of Berlin and, since 2011, at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he has been president since 2018. His research work has been recognized with awards such as the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2001), the Chauvenet (2006), and the Leroy P. Steele (2018).

Among his most influential works are Lectures on Polytopes (1995), a fundamental text in convex geometry, and Proofs from THE BOOK (1998), co-written with Martin Aigner, which compiles elegant mathematical proofs and has been translated into multiple languages, including Spanish as El libro de las demostraciones. Ziegler has also promoted mathematical outreach through publications like Darf ich Zahlen? (2005), bringing complex concepts to the general public.

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