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  title info:
    title: Reaching for the extreme
    sub title: how the quest for the biggest, fewest, and weirdest makes math
  name:
    name part: Stewart, Ian
    name part: 1945-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: From bestselling author and mathematician Ian Stewart, the fascinating story of the extreme problems that have driven math forward from antiquity to today.
  table of contents: 1. Most extreme -- 2. Biggest area -- 3. Loneliest tile -- 4. Fastest fall -- 5. Smallest gap -- 6. Best strategy -- 7. Fewest colours -- 8. Shortest path -- 9. Tightest pack -- 10. Smallest surface -- 11. Shortest route -- 12. Biggest number -- 13. Smallest number -- 14. Weirdest symmetry -- 15. Best fold -- 16. Lowest energy -- 17. Shortest proof -- 18. Greatest insight -- Notes -- Figure permissions -- Index.
  note: Ian Stewart.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Problem solving
  classification: QC19.6 .S74 2026
  classification: 530.15
  identifier: 0691268991
  identifier: 9780691268996
  identifier: 9780691269016
  identifier: 0691269017
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250724
    record change date: 20260420182849.0
    record identifier: in00005778786