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A retitled and revised edition of Ian Stewart's The Problems of Mathematics, this is the perfect guide to today's maths. Read about the lastest discoveries, and see how simple concepts from probability theory can help you maximize your lottery winnings.
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- Author
- Ian Stewart
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 307
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA, Booket, Oxford University Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780192832023
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Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS CMath FIMA is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, England. *--Wikipedia*
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