Figuring it out : entertaining encounters with everyday math / Nuno Crato.

This is a book of mathematical stories, funny and puzzling mathematical stories. They tell of villains who try to steal secrets, heroes who encode their messages, and mathematicians who spend years on end searching for the best way to pile oranges. There are also stories about highway confusions occ...

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Bibliographic Details

Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Crato, Nuno
Other title:	Matemática das coisas. English.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English Portuguese
Published:	Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, ©2010.
Subjects:	Mathematics > Popular works. Mathematics. Popular works.