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Reaching for the Extreme: How the Quest for the Biggest, Fewest and Weirdest Makes Maths by Professor Ian Stewart #foliosociety religious and cultural conceptions ofFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PROFESSOR STEWART'S CABINET OF MATHEMATICAL CURIOSITIES 'Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths' ALEX BELLOS What is the maximum land you can enclose inside a given border? What is the minimum number of colours you can use to colour in a map so that no region shares a shade? And how do you calculate the shortest route between two cities? These questions may not sound related, but they have this in