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One of the world's great mathematicians shows why math is the ultimate timesaver—and how everyone can make their lives easier with a few simple shortcuts. We are often told that hard work is the key to success. But success isn’t about hard work – it’s about shortcuts. Shortcuts allow...

Can a well-programmed machine do anything a human can - only better? Complex algorithms are buying our groceries, picking our partners, and driving our investments. They can navigate more data than a doctor or lawyer and act with greater precision. For many years we've taken solace in the notion that they can't create. But now that algorithms can learn and adapt, does the future of creativity belong to machines too?

This ten-part history of mathematics reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is...

“A delightful global tour of how humans think and play, led by one of our finest mathematical storytellers.” — Ben Orlin, author of Math Games with Bad Drawings Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors?...

“An engaging voyage into some of the great mysteries and wonders of our world." --Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dream and The Accidental Universe “No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting.” —Bill Bryson Brain Pickings and Kirkus Best Science Book of...

An Oxford mathematician, playwright, and musician reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the arts When Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeth’s lot, he uses something very weird to do it: not simply “eye of newt and...

Nos han enseñado que el atajo no es recomendable, que es un recurso tramposo, la treta del holgazán. No obstante, para Marcus du Sautoy es una táctica legítima: en las matemáticas, el reino del pensamiento estratégico que emula la lógica de la naturaleza, el atajo nos proporciona la solución de un problema en el menor tiempo y con el menor gasto de energía posibles.

John Wilson (acclaimed arts and culture reporter and journalist, and presenter of Front Row, Newsnight Review and Pick of the Week) meets up with a variety of public figures from such diverse fields as food, mathematics, politics, writing and music, and takes them back to the influential schools, teachers and early workplaces they may have forgotten, but which have not forgotten them.

Willkommen im Hotel Unendlichkeit. Es verfügt über eine unendliche Zahl von Zimmern, und in jedem der ankommenden Reisebusse sitzt eine unendliche Zahl von Menschen, die dort übernachten wollen. Wie sie unterbringen? Und gibt es etwa kleinere und größere, also noch unendlichere, überabzählbare Unendlichkeiten? Mit Hilfe der großen, aber endlichen Menge von Neuronen im Gehirn und der sehr viel geringeren, ebenso endlichen Menge von Seiten in diesem Buch fällt es nicht schwer, das Rätsel der Unendlichkeit zu lösen.