Figuring It Out: Entertaining Encounters With Everyday Math - Couverture rigide

Crato, Nuno

 
9783642048326: Figuring It Out: Entertaining Encounters With Everyday Math
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ISBN 10 : 3642048323 ISBN 13 : 9783642048326
Editeur : Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 2010

Synopsis

This fun book uses stories to explain mathematics. It tells of villains who steal secrets, heroes who encode messages, highway confusions that result from ignoring Cartesian geometry, mistakes in calendars due to poor numerical approximations, and more.

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À propos de l?auteur


Nuno Crato is one of the leading science writers in Portugal. He is a professor of Mathematics at the Technca1 University of Lisbon, current president of the Portuguese Mathematical Society, a researcher in stochastic processes, and a well-known science popularizer.

Nuno Crato is the author of several best-selling popular science books and takes a leading role in bringing mathemalics to a wider audience. He is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines and author of radio and TV programmes. Through these channels he brings regularly and to a vast audience a scientific perspective on a wide variety of current news and events.


In 2003 he was awarded the First Prize on the «Raising Public Awareness on Mathematics» competition organized by the European Mathematics Society.


In 2008 the European Union awarded him a European Science Award (ex-Descartes prize). He won the second place as «Science Communicator of the Year».. Previous winners of this prize include Sir David Attenborough and Bill Bryson. The prize statement coined the phrase «Cratos approach» for his science popularizing style. The jury characterized his writings as «easy to read. but also informative and scientifically sound», stressing that they address topics of «major public interest [...] dealt with humour, intelligence and a distinct journalistic style».

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Éditeur
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3642048323
ISBN 13 
9783642048326
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
227
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  3662505525 ISBN 13 :  9783662505526
Editeur : Copernicus, 2016
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