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Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz :

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Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz :

[Book]

making light of weighty ideas /

Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird ; original illustrations by Alan Witschonke.

1st ed.

New York :

W.W. Norton,

©2005.

ix, 276 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding uncertainty : coincidences -- Chaos, and confusion -- Unbridled coincidences : likelihood, lady luck, and lady love -- Chaos reigns : why we can't predict the future -- Digesting life's data : statistical surprises -- Embracing figures: sensing secrecy -- Magnificent magnitudes, and nature's numbers -- Secrets held, secrets revealed : cryptography decrypted -- Sizing up numbers : how many? how big? how quick? -- A synergy between nature and number : a search for -- Pattern -- Exploring aesthetics: sexy rectangles -- Fiery fractals, and contortions of space -- From precise beauty to pure chaos: picturing aesthetics -- Through the lens of mathematics -- Origami for the origamically challenged: from paper folding -- To computers and fiery fractals -- A twisted turn in an amorphous universe: an exploration of -- An elasticized world -- transcending reality: the fourth -- Dimension and infinity -- The universe next door: the magic of the fourth dimension -- Moving beyond the confines of our nutshell: a journey into -- Infinity -- In search of something still larger: a journey beyond -- Infinity.

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An explanation of challenging puzzles within the world of mathematics considers such topics as the link between a pineapple's spirals and the famous Fibonacci numbers, and the shape of the universe as reflected by a twisted strip of paper.

Mathematics, Humor.

Matematik.

Mathematics, Humor.

Mathematics.

Burger, Edward B.,1963-

Starbird, Michael.

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