Synopses & Reviews
Review
My advice is: get this book, read it, enjoy it, and then hit the trail to sell mathematics to young high school students." SIAM
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Amazing mazes
2. Dancing with mathematics
3. Sundials: how to tell time without a digital watch
4. Magical mathematics
5. Castles: mathematics in defence and attack
6. How to be a spy: the mathematics of codes and ciphers
7. What's in a name?
8. Doing the sums
Index