عنوان

Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz :

شابک

0393059456

شابک

0393329313

شابک

9780393059458

شابک

9780393329315

عنوان اصلي

Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

making light of weighty ideas /

نام نخستين پديدآور

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

وضعيت ويراست

1st ed.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

W.W. Norton,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2005.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

ix, 276 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

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.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

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.

موضوع مستند نشده

Mathematics, Humor.

موضوع مستند نشده

Matematik.

موضوع مستند نشده

Mathematics, Humor.

موضوع مستند نشده

Mathematics.

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

کد سيستم

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Burger, Edward B.,1963-

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Starbird, Michael.

تاريخ عمليات

20200822094517.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y