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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities | 
| Author: Ian Stewart
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 194
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 1.4
ISBN: 1846680646
EAN: 9781846680649
ASIN: 1846680646
Publication Date: October 2, 2008
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it got me interested in magic squares November 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
this book admittedly is not laid out in an obviously systematic way but i m not sure that matters. it got me interested in some things that i thought were rather boring, and on the whole though i haven t read it all through yet it does seem to the makings of a very good read, though inevitably some of the puzzles will be very familiar.
the version that i have has an incorrect printing of the 3x3 "nearly magic" square on p66, the first of the two examples. the fix is fairly easy though and provides a nice additional problem for anyone interested!
 Falls between two stools October 28, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
For me this book is neither a "mathematical puzzle book" or an easy to read account of mathematical curiosities. It seems to be a haphazard melange of both and subsequently, due to their being no real effort to put individual puzzles/essays into easy categories, quite frankly a bit of a mess. Much of the stuff here has been done to death (the 4 colour map problem anyone?) but there is some new stuff here as well as some interesting and fun problems which justifies a 3 star review.
I just wish it had been better organised
 fascinating October 22, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
a well written and witty look at hundreds of mathematical puzzles, stories and jokes. I am a maths teacher and there is so much material here, it's amazing. I have already used a few of these with my classes and the puzzles have really caught their imagination. Highly recommended
although the solution to the problem on page 143 is wrong
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