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Entertaining Algebra

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The book is structured as a series of self-contained mini-detectives: "Astronomical Numbers," "The Literary Automaton," "Leo Tolstoy's Problem," and "The Secret of the Chess Automaton." Each chapter is a click in your head, after which you fall in love with mathematics all over again. Even if you've forgotten your school curriculum, Perelman will gently "resurrect" your knowledge and reveal its hidden beauty.

Algebra is everywhere: in biology (the geometric progression of locusts), in music (the logarithmic gamma), in forensics (record recovery), and even in hairdressing. And yes, homeopathy is exposed long before it became mainstream.

Forget boring textbook examples. Leo Tolstoy's puzzles, the mathematics of rabbit reproduction, logarithms in music, and unexpected hairdressing problems await you. This isn't a lesson—it's an intellectual quest, after which you'll begin to see the subtle magic of equations in every coffee maker and star in the sky.
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