Do I Count?: Stories from Mathematics

ISBN-13: 9781138427228 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Gunter M. Ziegler

Opis

"Originally published in German as Darf ich Zahlen?: Geschichten aus der Mathematik ... 2010 by Piper Verlag GmbH, M'uchen"--Title page verso.

Spis treści

On the Number Line. The Never-Ending Story of Prime Numbers. The Mathematical Perspective. Caution: Equations. The Small Puzzles. Where Mathematics Is Created. The Book of Proofs. Three Legends. What Kinds of People Are These? What Mathematicians Can Do. Read More. Index.

O autorze

Gunter M. Ziegler is a MATHEON professor at Freie Universite Berlin. Dr. Ziegler is a member of the executive board of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. His honors include the Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation DFG, the Chauvenet Prize from the Mathematical Association of America, and the Communicator Award from DFG and Stifterverband. His research interests connect discrete and computational geometry (especially polytopes), algebraic and topological methods in combinatorics, discrete mathematics, and the theory of linear and integer programming. He earned a Ph.D. from MIT.