Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

This book, Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Prof. Ian Stewart focuses on the weirdest things inside his legendary cabinet. Perhaps because he knew that the most interesting kind of math is not the one being taught at in school, Prof. Stewart collected in his cabinet math games, puzzles, stories, and factoids that had purposes of being read by those who love adventure. In this book, the reader finds hidden treasures of logic, geometry, and probabilities - just how a person would extract cherry from a cocktail glass, to pop-up a dodecahedron. In this book, too, the reader will learn why he can not divide anything by zero. It is a very interesting part of the book. We always know that diving something by zero is ridiculous and cannot be. But in this book we are showed why not so.

We also find in this book, in different chapters, the Fermat's last theorem, the Poincare conjecture, chaos theory, and the P=NP problem. They are in discussed in the book in a very interesting and fun way.