Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

Knowing that the most exciting math is not taught in school, Professor Ian Stewart has spent years filling his cabinet with intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, stories, and factoids intended for the adventurous mind. This book reveals the most exhilarating oddities from Professor Stewart's legendary cabinet.
Inside, you will find hidden gems of logic, geometry, and probability-like how to extract a cherry from a cocktail glass (harder than you think), a pop-up dodecahedron, and the real reason why you can't divide anything by zero. Scattered among these are keys to Fermat's last theorem, the Poincaré conjecture, chaos theory, and the P=NP problem (you'll win a million dollars if you solve it). You never know what enigmas you'll find in the Stewart cabinet, but they're sure to be clever, mind-expanding, and delightfully fun.

• Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures
• Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries
• In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
• Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers
• My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math)
• Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics
• How to Cut a Cake: And Other Mathematical Conundrums
• The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
• The Mathematics of Life
• Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World