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The raven's hat : fallen pictures, rising sequences, and other mathematical games
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
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"Introducing complex math concepts through the medium of seemingly unsolvable games"--
Details
- Creator
- Jonas Peters and Nicolai Meinshausen ; illustrated by Malte Meinshausen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [Cambridge, Massachusetts] : [The MIT Press], [2020]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 9780262363624, 026204451X, 0262363623, 9780262362689, 9780262044516
- OCLC
- on1159803670, on1202266656
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Hat colors and Hamming codes -- Twenty boxes and permutations -- The dovetail trick and rising sequences -- Animal stickers and cyclic groups -- Opera singers and information theory -- Animal matching and projective geometry -- The Earth and an eigenvalue -- The fallen picture and algebraic topology