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L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels
James D. Stein
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Description for L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 line illus. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Move over, Sherlock and Watson--the detective duo to be reckoned with. In the entertaining short-story collection L.A. Math, freelance investigator Freddy Carmichael and his sidekick, Pete Lennox, show how math smarts can crack even the most perplexing cases. Freddy meets colorful personalities throughout Los Angeles and encounters mysterious circumstances from embezzlement and robbery to murder. In each story, Freddy's deductive instincts--and Pete's trusty math skills--solve the crime. Featuring such glamorous locales as Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Malibu, and Santa Barbara, the fourteen short stories in L.A. Math take Freddy and Pete through various puzzles and challenges. In A Change ... Read more
Move over, Sherlock and Watson--the detective duo to be reckoned with. In the entertaining short-story collection L.A. Math, freelance investigator Freddy Carmichael and his sidekick, Pete Lennox, show how math smarts can crack even the most perplexing cases. Freddy meets colorful personalities throughout Los Angeles and encounters mysterious circumstances from embezzlement and robbery to murder. In each story, Freddy's deductive instincts--and Pete's trusty math skills--solve the crime. Featuring such glamorous locales as Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Malibu, and Santa Barbara, the fourteen short stories in L.A. Math take Freddy and Pete through various puzzles and challenges. In A Change ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
542g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691168289
SKU
V9780691168289
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About James D. Stein
James D. Stein is emeritus professor in the Department of Mathematics at California State University, Long Beach. His books include Cosmic Numbers (Basic) and How Math Explains the World (Smithsonian).
Reviews for L.A. Math: Romance, Crime, and Mathematics in the City of Angels
Fun for any crime-fiction lover who fancies a spot of mathematical adventuring, or vice versa.
Brian Clegg, Popular Science blog James D Stein ... explains in the preface to the book that entertaining stories set in Los Angeles, with mathematics squeezed painlessly in, was his long cherished dream of a way to teach basic math as fun rather than ... Read more
Brian Clegg, Popular Science blog James D Stein ... explains in the preface to the book that entertaining stories set in Los Angeles, with mathematics squeezed painlessly in, was his long cherished dream of a way to teach basic math as fun rather than ... Read more