The Mathematics Lover’s Companion

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By Edward Scheinerman *84

Published March 15, 2017

How can a shape have more than one dimension but fewer than two? Can you tile your floor with regular pentagons? Edward Scheinerman *84 answers these questions and more in The Mathematics Lover’s Companion (Yale University Press), a collection of mathematical masterworks written for readers with a high-school knowledge of algebra.

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