Reaching for the Extreme: How the Quest for the Biggest, Fewest and Weirdest Makes Maths by Professor Ian Stewart #foliosociety

Reaching for the Extreme: How the Quest for the Biggest, Fewest and Weirdest Makes Maths by Professor Ian Stewart #foliosocietyFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PROFESSOR STEWART'S CABINET OF MATHEMATICAL CURIOSITIES 'Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths' ALEX BELLOS What is the maximum land you can enclose inside a given border? What is the minimum number of colours you can use to colour in a map so that no region shares a shade? And how do you calculate the shortest route between two cities? These questions may not sound related, but they have this in

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