
A Dingo Ate My Math Book
Mathematics from Down Under
American Mathematical Society (Publisher)
Published on 28. February 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-4704-3521-9 (ISBN)
Description
A Dingo Ate My Math Book presents ingenious, unusual, and beautiful nuggets of mathematics with a distinctly Australian flavor. It focuses, for example, on Australians' love of sports and gambling, and on Melbourne's iconic, mathematically inspired architecture. Written in a playful and humorous style, the book offers mathematical entertainment as well as a glimpse of Australian culture for the mathematically curious of all ages. This collection of engaging stories was extracted from the Maths Masters column that ran from 2007 to 2014 in Australia's Age newspaper. The maths masters in question are Burkard Polster and Marty Ross, two (immigrant) Aussie mathematicians, who each week would write about math in the news, providing a new look at old favorites, mathematical history, quirks of school mathematics-whatever took their fancy. All articles were written for a very general audience, with the intention of being as inviting as possible and assuming a minimum of mathematical background.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Providence
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
660 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4704-3521-9 (9781470435219)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Burkard Polster, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Marty Ross, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Marty Ross, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Content
A day in Australia
Sports rules!
Aussie heroes
Melbourne, city of mathematics
A lotto gambling
Keeping the bastards honest
Canned life
Money, money, money
Family life
Here, there and everywhere
TV snacks
The Australian math wars
The critics at work
Appendix.
Sports rules!
Aussie heroes
Melbourne, city of mathematics
A lotto gambling
Keeping the bastards honest
Canned life
Money, money, money
Family life
Here, there and everywhere
TV snacks
The Australian math wars
The critics at work
Appendix.