Weirder Maths

Resumen del libro

Even the most enthusiastic of maths students probably at one time wondered when exactly it would all prove useful in real life'. Well, maths reaches so far and wide through our world that, love it or hate it, we're all doing maths almost every minute of every day. David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee go in search of the perfect labyrinth, journey back to the second century in pursuit of bubble maths', reveal the weirdest mathematicians in history and transform the bewildering into the beautiful, delighting us once again. Since there is something rather than nothing, could nothing exist? Can you make the perfect labyrinth? Does a quantum event have to be observed before it's real'? Just when you thought things couldn't get any stranger, David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee's reveal bubble maths' has been studied since the second century, the counterintuitive world of quantum can be described perfectly by mathematics and the idea that maths and art couldn't be further apart is utter nonsense.

Biografía del autor

David Darling es doctor en astronomía por la Universidad de Manchester. Durante las tres últimas décadas ha publicado muchos libros y artículos de divulgación científica sobre temas como la cosmología, la física, la filosofía y las matemáticas. Durante su labor como profesor de clases particulares de matemáticas y física conoció a Agnijo Banerjee, que por entonces solo tenía trece años.