| Softcover ISBN: | 978-1-4704-3521-9 |
| Product Code: | MBK/106 |
| List Price: | $39.00 |
| Individual Price: | $31.20 |
| Electronic ISBN: | 978-1-4704-4272-9 |
| Product Code: | MBK/106.E |
| List Price: | $39.00 |
| MAA Member Price: | $35.10 |
| AMS Member Price: | $31.20 |
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Book Details2017; 253 ppMSC: Primary 00; 97;
A Dingo Ate My Math Book presents ingenious, unusual, and beautiful nuggets of mathematics with a distinctly Australian flavor. It focuses, for example, on Australians' love of sports and gambling, and on Melbourne's iconic, mathematically inspired architecture. Written in a playful and humorous style, the book offers mathematical entertainment as well as a glimpse of Australian culture for the mathematically curious of all ages.
This collection of engaging stories was extracted from the Maths Masters column that ran from 2007 to 2014 in Australia's Age newspaper. The maths masters in question are Burkard Polster and Marty Ross, two (immigrant) Aussie mathematicians, who each week would write about math in the news, providing a new look at old favorites, mathematical history, quirks of school mathematics—whatever took their fancy. All articles were written for a very general audience, with the intention of being as inviting as possible and assuming a minimum of mathematical background.ReadershipUndergraduate and graduate students and researchers interested in recreational math and Australia.
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Table of Contents
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Chapters
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A day in Australia
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Sports rules!
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Aussie heroes
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Melbourne, city of mathematics
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A lotto gambling
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Keeping the bastards honest
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Canned life
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Money, money, money
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Family life
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Here, there and everywhere
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TV snacks
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The Australian math wars
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The critics at work
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Appendix
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Additional Material
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Reviews
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A singularly amusing synthesis of cultural anthropolgy coupled with mathematical entertainment.
Tushar Das, Mathematical Intelligencer -
This book is enjoyable and informative...definitely one for the masses.
Liz Lane-Harvard, Math Horizons -
The articles are well written and quite often illustrated as well. They cover an enormous amount of ground but at an elementary enough level that the average reader will not want to stop reading the 253 pages until the end.
Paul F. Bracken, Mathematical Reviews -
From the very title of this terrific book, the reader knows what's coming. It's the Aussies at work, or rather at play. And you gotta love it...This marvelous book is indeed full of all sorts of great stuff, from chatty articles...to puzzles, real (but generally accessible) mathematics, sundry biographical articles, and, of course, loads and loads of Australiana. I love this book, be it to browse or to read. And I can't imagine it failing to charm anyone.
Michael Berg, MAA Reviews
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A Dingo Ate My Math Book presents ingenious, unusual, and beautiful nuggets of mathematics with a distinctly Australian flavor. It focuses, for example, on Australians' love of sports and gambling, and on Melbourne's iconic, mathematically inspired architecture. Written in a playful and humorous style, the book offers mathematical entertainment as well as a glimpse of Australian culture for the mathematically curious of all ages.
This collection of engaging stories was extracted from the Maths Masters column that ran from 2007 to 2014 in Australia's Age newspaper. The maths masters in question are Burkard Polster and Marty Ross, two (immigrant) Aussie mathematicians, who each week would write about math in the news, providing a new look at old favorites, mathematical history, quirks of school mathematics—whatever took their fancy. All articles were written for a very general audience, with the intention of being as inviting as possible and assuming a minimum of mathematical background.
Undergraduate and graduate students and researchers interested in recreational math and Australia.
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Chapters
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A day in Australia
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Sports rules!
-
Aussie heroes
-
Melbourne, city of mathematics
-
A lotto gambling
-
Keeping the bastards honest
-
Canned life
-
Money, money, money
-
Family life
-
Here, there and everywhere
-
TV snacks
-
The Australian math wars
-
The critics at work
-
Appendix
-
A singularly amusing synthesis of cultural anthropolgy coupled with mathematical entertainment.
Tushar Das, Mathematical Intelligencer -
This book is enjoyable and informative...definitely one for the masses.
Liz Lane-Harvard, Math Horizons -
The articles are well written and quite often illustrated as well. They cover an enormous amount of ground but at an elementary enough level that the average reader will not want to stop reading the 253 pages until the end.
Paul F. Bracken, Mathematical Reviews -
From the very title of this terrific book, the reader knows what's coming. It's the Aussies at work, or rather at play. And you gotta love it...This marvelous book is indeed full of all sorts of great stuff, from chatty articles...to puzzles, real (but generally accessible) mathematics, sundry biographical articles, and, of course, loads and loads of Australiana. I love this book, be it to browse or to read. And I can't imagine it failing to charm anyone.
Michael Berg, MAA Reviews
