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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities | 
 enlarge | Author: Ian Stewart
Publisher: Profile Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 36
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 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
Andrew Salmon (leicestershire)
5 out of 8 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
Big Jim (London, UK)
17 out of 22 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
Peter Stevenson (Jakarta, Indonesia)
12 out of 15 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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