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**A non-mathematician explores mathematical terrain, reporting accessibly and engagingly on topics from Sudoku to probability.**Brian Hayes wants to convince us that mathematics is too important and too much fun to be left to the mathematicians. __Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations__ is his entertaining and accessible exploration of mathematical terrain both far-flung and nearby, bringing readers tidings of mathematical topics from Markov chains to Sudoku. Hayes, a non-mathematician, argues that mathematics is not only an essential tool for understanding the world but also a world unto itself, filled with objects and patterns that transcend earthly reality. In a series of essays, Hayes sets off to explore this exotic terrain, and takes the reader with him. Math has a bad reputation: dull, difficult, detached from daily life. As a talking Barbie doll opined, “Math class is tough.” But Hayes makes math seem fun. Whether he's tracing the genealogy of a well-worn anecdote about a famous mathematical prodigy, or speculating about what would happen to a lost ball in the nth dimension, or explaining that there are such things as quasirandom numbers, Hayes wants readers to share

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Author

Brian Hayes

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262536073

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Mathematics, Stem