Pickover The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars

An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions
Core Textbook
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4151-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

Clifford Pickover is the author of over twenty books on a broad range of topics in science and art, a columnist for Odyssey, and an inventor. His books include Surfing Through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons, Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Mathematics, Mind, and Meaning, and The Loom of God: Mathematical Tapestries at the Edge of Time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pickover, Clifford A.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Populäre Darstellungen der Mathematik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction 1

CHAPTER ONE: Magic Construction 37

CHAPTER TWO: Classification 65

CHAPTER THREE: Gallery I: Squares, Cubes, and Tesseracts 147

CHAPTER FOUR: Gallery 2: Circles and Spheres 297

CHAPTER FIVE: Gallery 3: Stars, Hexagons, and Other Beauties 325

Some Final Thoughts 369

Notes 375

For Further Reading 395

Index 397

About the Author 403

Über Autor(innen)

Clifford Pickover is the author of over twenty books on a broad range of topics in science and art, a columnist for Odyssey, and an inventor. His books include Surfing Through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons, Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Mathematics, Mind, and Meaning, and The Loom of God: Mathematical Tapestries at the Edge of Time.