Hoe is het om door een briljante ingeving een eeuwenoud wiskundig vraagstuk op te lossen? En om, tien minuten later, erachter te komen dat je daarbij een denkfout hebt gemaakt?
Marcus du Sautoy begint zijn persoonlijke zoektocht naar de geheimen…
Why do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few have six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but leopards have spots? This book takes the reader on a mathematical sightseeing tour of the natural…
Contemporary Abstract Algebra 7/e provides a solid introduction to the traditional topics in abstract algebra while conveying to students that it is a contemporary subject used daily by working mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, and…
When Cambridge mathematician Andrew Wiles announced a solution for Fermat's last theorem in 1993, it electrified the world of mathematics. After a flaw was discovered in the proof, Wiles had to work for another year--he had already laboured in…