"Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics--imagine where we'd be if Newton and Einstein hadn't had the math to back up their ideas. But how many people realize that physics can be used to produce many astonishing and strikingly elegant solutions in mathematics? Mark Levi shows how in this delightful book, treating readers to a host of entertaining problems and mind-bending puzzlers. Turning math and physics upside down, Levi reveals...

"An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable."--from inside cover.