2015, ISBN: 9781620405949

The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Winner of the 2017 JPBM Communications Award for Expository and Popular Books.&quote;A delightful meta-biography… Mehr…

The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Winner of the 2017 JPBM Communications Award for Expository and Popular Books.&quote;A delightful meta-biography--playful indeed--of a brilliant iconoclast.&quote; --James Gleick, author of The Information John Horton Conway is a singular mathematician with a lovely loopy brain. He is Archimedes, Mick Jagger, Salvador Dali, and Richard Feynman all rolled into one--he boasts a rock star's charisma, a slyly bent sense of humor, a polymath's promiscuous curiosity, and an insatiable compulsion to explain everything about the world to everyone in it. At Cambridge, Conway wrestled with &quote;Monstrous Moonshine,&quote; discovered the aptly named surreal numbers, and invented the cult classic Game of Life--more than just a cool fad, Life demonstrates how simplicity generates complexity and provides an analogy for mathematics and the entire universe. As a &quote;mathemagician&quote; at Princeton, he used ropes, dice, pennies, coat hangers, even the occasional Slinky, as props to extend his winning imagination and share his many nerdish delights. He granted Roberts full access to his idiosyncrasies and intellect both, though not without the occasional grumble: &quote;Oh hell,&quote; he'd say. &quote;You're not going to put that in the book. Are you?!?&quote; [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)], Seiten: 480, Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), 2015<

2017, ISBN: 9781620405949

Winner of the 2017 JPBM Communications Award for Expository and Popular Books.“A delightful meta-biography--playful indeed--of a brilliant iconoclast.” --James Gleick, author … Mehr…

Winner of the 2017 JPBM Communications Award for Expository and Popular Books.“A delightful meta-biography--playful indeed--of a brilliant iconoclast.” --James Gleick, author of The Information John Horton Conway is a singular mathematician with a lovely loopy brain. He is Archimedes, Mick Jagger, Salvador Dali, and Richard Feynman all rolled into one--he boasts a rock star's charisma, a slyly bent sense of humor, a polymath's promiscuous curiosity, and an insatiable compulsion to explain everything about the world to everyone in it. At Cambridge, Conway wrestled with Monstrous Moonshine, discovered the aptly named surreal numbers, and invented the cult classic Game of Life--more than just a cool fad, Life demonstrates how simplicity generates complexity and provides an analogy for mathematics and the entire universe. As a mathemagician at Princeton, he used ropes, dice, pennies, coat hangers, even the occasional Slinky, as props to extend his winning imagination and share his many nerdish delights. He granted Roberts full access to his idiosyncrasies and intellect both, though not without the occasional grumble: Oh hell, he'd say. You're not going to put that in the book. Are you?!? Digital Content>E-books>Science>Mathematics>Mathematics, Bloomsbury Publishing Digital >16<

2017, ISBN: 9781620405949

Winner of the 2017 JPBM Communications Award for Expository and Popular Books."A delightful meta-biography--playful indeed--of a brilliant iconoclast." --James Gleick, author of The Infor… Mehr…

Winner of the 2017 JPBM Communications Award for Expository and Popular Books."A delightful meta-biography--playful indeed--of a brilliant iconoclast." --James Gleick, author of The Information John Horton Conway is a singular mathematician with a lovely loopy brain. He is Archimedes, Mick Jagger, Salvador Dali, and Richard Feynman all rolled into one--he boasts a rock star's charisma, a slyly bent sense of humor, a polymath's promiscuous curiosity, and an insatiable compulsion to explain everything about the world to everyone in it. At Cambridge, Conway wrestled with "Monstrous Moonshine," discovered the aptly named surreal numbers, and invented the cult classic Game of Life--more than just a cool fad, Life demonstrates how simplicity generates complexity and provides an analogy for mathematics and the entire universe. As a "mathemagician" at Princeton, he used ropes, dice, pennies, coat hangers, even the occasional Slinky, as props to extend his winning imagination and share his many nerdish delights. He granted Roberts full access to his idiosyncrasies and intellect both, though not without the occasional grumble: "Oh hell," he'd say. "You're not going to put that in the book. Are you?!?" E-Book, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc<

2015, ISBN: 9781620405949

The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)], Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), 2015

2015, ISBN: 9781620405949

The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway, eBook Download (EPUB), eBooks, [PU: Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)]