{"product_id":"the-mathematics-of-oz-mental-gymnastics-from-beyond-the-edge-hardback-9780521016780","title":"The Mathematics of Oz; Mental Gymnastics from Beyond the Edge (Hardback) 9780521016780","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Mathematics of Oz\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMental Gymnastics from Beyond the Edge\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThought-provoking mysteries, puzzles, and problems ranging from zebra numbers and circular primes to Legion's number.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eClifford A. Pickover (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521016780, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 September 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 80 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.9 x 15.3 x 2.3 cm, 0.65 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Beside being a pleasant reading, this book is capable of endearing its readers to mathematics. …useful reading for not only mathematics-orientated people, but laymen interested in thinking can find exciting riddles and thinking methods as well. …This book is a recommended reading for each Homo sapiens who likes thinking.' Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eGrab a pencil. Relax. Then take off on a mind-boggling journey to the ultimate frontier of math, mind, and meaning as acclaimed author Dr Clifford Pickover, Dorothy, and Dr Oz explore some of the oddest and quirkiest highways and byways of the numerically obsessed. Prepare yourself for a shattering odyssey as The Mathematics of Oz unlocks the doors of your imagination. The thought-provoking mysteries, puzzles, and problems range from zebra numbers and circular primes to Legion's number - a number so big that it makes a trillion pale in comparison. The strange mazes, bizarre consequences, and dizzying arrays of logic problems will entertain people at all levels of mathematical sophistication. With numerous illustrations, this is an original, fun-filled, and thoroughly unique introduction to numbers and their role in creativity, computers, games, practical research, and absurd adventures that teeter on the edge of logic and insanity. The Mathematics of Oz will have you squirming in frustration and begging for more.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTravel guide\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Puzzles: 1. The yellow-brick road\u003cbr\u003e 2. Animal array\u003cbr\u003e 3. An experiment with Kansas\u003cbr\u003e 4. An experiment with signs\u003cbr\u003e 5. The logic of greenness\u003cbr\u003e 6. Magical maze\u003cbr\u003e 7. Kansas railway contraction\u003cbr\u003e 8. The problem of the bones\u003cbr\u003e 9. Square overdrive\u003cbr\u003e 10. Squares and cubes\u003cbr\u003e 11. Plex's matrix\u003cbr\u003e 12. Chaos at the clock factory\u003cbr\u003e 13. The upsilon configuration\u003cbr\u003e 14. Bone toss\u003cbr\u003e 15. Animal farm courthouse\u003cbr\u003e 16. Omega sphere\u003cbr\u003e 17. Leg bone shatter produces triangle\u003cbr\u003e 18. Z-bar ranch\u003cbr\u003e 19. Mystery of phasers\u003cbr\u003e 20. Salty number cycle\u003cbr\u003e 21. Where are the composites?\u003cbr\u003e 22. Brain trip\u003cbr\u003e 23. The gaps of omicron\u003cbr\u003e 24. Hutchinson problem\u003cbr\u003e 25. Flint hill series\u003cbr\u003e 26. Wacky tiles\u003cbr\u003e 27. Toto clone puzzle\u003cbr\u003e 28. Legion's number\u003cbr\u003e 29. The problems of the tombs\u003cbr\u003e 30. Plex's tiles\u003cbr\u003e 31. Phasers on targets\u003cbr\u003e 32. The chamber of death and despair\u003cbr\u003e 33. Zebra irrationals\u003cbr\u003e 34. Creatures in resin\u003cbr\u003e 35. Prime-poor equations\u003cbr\u003e 36. Number satellite\u003cbr\u003e 37. Flatworm math\u003cbr\u003e 38. Regolith paradox\u003cbr\u003e 39.\u003cbr\u003e 40. Entroy\u003cbr\u003e 41. Animal gap\u003cbr\u003e 42. Arranging alien heads\u003cbr\u003e 43. Ramanujan congruences and the quest for transcendence\u003cbr\u003e 44. Getting noticed\u003cbr\u003e 45. Juggler numbers\u003cbr\u003e 46. Friends from Mars\u003cbr\u003e 47. Phi in four 4s\u003cbr\u003e 48\u003cbr\u003e On planet zyph\u003cbr\u003e 49. The jellyfish of europa\u003cbr\u003e 50. Archeological dissection\u003cbr\u003e 51. The gamma gambit\u003cbr\u003e 52. Robot hand hive\u003cbr\u003e 53. Ramanujan and the quattuordecillion\u003cbr\u003e 54. Lunatic ferris wheel\u003cbr\u003e 55. The ultimate spindle\u003cbr\u003e 56. Prairie artifact\u003cbr\u003e 57. Alien pellets\u003cbr\u003e 58. The beauty of polygon slicing\u003cbr\u003e 59. Cosmic call\u003cbr\u003e 60. Knight moves\u003cbr\u003e 61. Sphere\u003cbr\u003e 62. Potawatomi target\u003cbr\u003e 63. Sliders\u003cbr\u003e 64. Swapping\u003cbr\u003e 65. Triangle dissection\u003cbr\u003e 66. A simple code\u003cbr\u003e 67. Heterosquare\u003cbr\u003e 68. Insertion\u003cbr\u003e 69. Missing landscape\u003cbr\u003e 70. The choice\u003cbr\u003e 71. Animal selection\u003cbr\u003e 72. The skeletal men of Uranus\u003cbr\u003e 73. Hindbrain stimulation\u003cbr\u003e 74. The arrays of absolution\u003cbr\u003e 75. Trochophore abduction\u003cbr\u003e 76. The dream pyramids of Missouri\u003cbr\u003e 77. Mathematical flower petal\u003cbr\u003e 78. Blood and water\u003cbr\u003e 79. Cavern problems\u003cbr\u003e 80. Three triplets\u003cbr\u003e 81. Oos and oob gambit\u003cbr\u003e 82. Napiform mathematics\u003cbr\u003e 83. Toto, Mr. plex, elephant\u003cbr\u003e 84. Witch overdrive\u003cbr\u003e 85. What is art?\u003cbr\u003e 86. Wendy magic square\u003cbr\u003e 87. Heaven and hell\u003cbr\u003e 88. The stars of heaven\u003cbr\u003e 89. Vacation in the Tarantula nebula\u003cbr\u003e 90. Hot lava\u003cbr\u003e 91. Circular primes\u003cbr\u003e 92. The truth about cats and dogs\u003cbr\u003e 93. Disc mania\u003cbr\u003e 94. N2+m2=s\u003cbr\u003e 95. 2, 271, 2718281\u003cbr\u003e 96. Android watch\u003cbr\u003e 97. Knight moves\u003cbr\u003e 98. Pool table gambit\u003cbr\u003e 99. A connection between pi and e\u003cbr\u003e 100. Venusian number bush\u003cbr\u003e 101. Triangle cave\u003cbr\u003e 102. Rat attack\u003cbr\u003e 103. The scarecrow formula\u003cbr\u003e 104. Circle math\u003cbr\u003e 105. A, AB, ABA\u003cbr\u003e 106. Ants and cheese\u003cbr\u003e 107. The omega crystal\u003cbr\u003e 108. 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