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Starting another kitchen in his Cabinet of Curiosities, famous math professor Ian Stewart provides a brand new medley of activities, riddles, and paradoxes in Professor Stewart’s Ton of Numerical Items. With humor and aplomb, Stewart mingles informal questions with grander forays into historic and contemporary numerical thought.Amongst a bunch of arcane and amazing factual statements about every type of quantity from unreasonable and unreal to complicated and cuneiform, we discover:• How to arrange chaos• How issue amounts anti-matter• How to show a sphere inside-out (without creasing it)• How to compute pi by watching the stars• …and why you can’t brush a hairy ball.Along the way in which Stewart provides the audience enticing glimpses of the math fundamental existence and the world. Brain- enlightening, stretching, and constantly entertaining, Teacher Stewart’s Ton of Numerical Items may delight, stimulate, and enthrall.