Table of Contents

Preface
1: Your Half's Bigger Than My Half!
2: Repealing the Law of Averages
3: Arithmetic and Old Lace
4: Paradox Lost
5: Tight Tins for Round Sardines
6: The Never-Ending Chess Game
7: Quods and Quazars
8: Zero Knowledge Protocols
9: Empires on the Moon
10: Empires and Electronics
11: Resurrection Shuffle
12: Double Bubble, Toil and Trouble
13: Crossed Lines in the Brick Factory
14: Division Without Envy
15: Furiously flashing fireflies
16: Why Phone Cords Get Tangled
17: Sierpinski's Ubiquitous Gasket
18: Defend the Roman empire!
19: Triangulation Takeaway
20: Easter is a quasicrystal
Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University, and Director of the Mathematics Awareness Centre at Warwick. An active research mathematician, he is also a well-known popularizer of mathematics and related areas of science. In 1995 he was awarded the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award for furthering the public understanding of science; his book Nature's Numbers was shortlisted for the 1996 Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books; and he
delivered the 1997 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, televised by the BBC. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His many books include Evolving the Alien (with Jack Cohen), The Science of
Discworld, What Shape is a Snowflake?, Flatterland, The Magical Maze, and Does God Play Dice? .