Professor Povey's Perplexing Problems: Pre-University Physics and Maths Puzzles with Solutions
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Professor Povey's Perplexing Problems: Pre-University Physics and Maths Puzzles
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781780747750
The essential guide for would-be students in the mathematical sciences
'If you fancy doing physics, maths or engineering at university – or wish you once had – it is an absolute must-have.' Brian Clegg
In Professor Povey's Perplexing Problems, Thomas Povey shares 109 of his favourite problems in physics and maths. A tour de force of imagination and exposition, he takes us by the hand and guides us through uncompromisingly challenging territory that expands our minds and encourages a playful and exploratory approach to study. The puzzles, he says, are like toys. We should pick up the one we most enjoy, and play with it.
About the Author:
Thomas Povey (1613/14 – in or before 1705) FRS, was a London merchant-politician. He was active in colonial affairs from the 1650s, but neutral enough in his politics to be named a member from 1660 of Charles II's Council for Foreign Plantations. A powerful figure in the not-yet professionalised First English Empire, he was both "England's first colonial civil servant" and at the same time "a typical office holder of the Restoration". Both Samuel Pepys and William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia, railed at times against Povey's incompetence and maladministration.
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Professor Povey's Perplexing Problems: Pre-University Physics and Maths Puzzles with Solutions
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