The Football
the amazing mathematics of the world's most watched object
$33.59
- Hardcover
136 pages
- Release Date
25 November 2025
Summary
The Beautiful Math: Unveiling the Secrets of the Football
An illustration-packed dive into the geometry, engineering, and physics of soccer balls
The Football takes readers on an entertaining and fact-filled exploration of the mathematical secrets of the most popular spherical object on the planet. The football is familiar to billions of fans across the globe, but how many really look at it? Do footballs all have the same shape? Spoiler: not exactly…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691263120 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691263124 |
| Author: | Étienne Ghys, Teresa Lavender Fagan |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 136 |
| Release Date: | 25 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 140mm |
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About The Author
Étienne Ghys
tienne Ghys is CNRS director of research emeritus at the cole normale superieure de Lyon and permanent secretary of the French Academy of Sciences. Inaugural recipient of the prestigious Clay Award for Dissemination of Mathematical Knowledge, he writes a popular mathematics column for Le Monde.
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