INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
9783642048326
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Country Code
IR
Number
E-4895
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTlON
Country of publication
IR
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Figuring it out
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
:entertaining encounters with everyday math
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Nuno Crato
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Heidelberg ;New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Springer
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
ix, 227 p. , ill., maps , 25 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Translated from the Portuguese.
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Text of Note
Print
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
"This is a book of mathematical stories--funny and puzzling mathematical stories. They tell of villains who try to steal secrets, heroes who encode their messages, and mathematicians who spend years on end searching for the best way to pile oranges. There are also stories about highway confusions occurring when the rules of Cartesian geometry are ignored, small-change errors due to ignorance of ancient paradoxes, and mistakes in calendars arising from poor numerical approximations. This book is about the power and beauty of mathematics. It shows mathematics in action, explained in a way that everybody can understand."--Dust jacket.
Text of Note
Everyday matters. The dinner table algorithm -- Cutting the Christmas cake -- Oranges and computers -- When two and two don't make four -- Getting more intelligent every day -- The other lane always goes faster -- Shoelaces and neckties -- Number puzzles -- Tossing a coin -- The switch -- Eubulides, the heap and the Euro -- The earth is round. How GPS works -- Gear wheels -- February 29 -- The Nonius scale -- Pedro Nunes' map -- Lighthouse geometry -- Asteroids and least squares -- The useful man and the genius -- Secret affairs. Alice and Bob -- Inviolate cybersecrets -- Quantum cryptography -- The FBI wavelet -- The enigma machine -- Art and geometry. The Vitruvian man -- The golden number -- The geometry of A4 paper sizes -- The strange worlds of Escher -- Escher and the Meobius strip -- Picasso, Einstein and the fourth dimension -- Pollock's fractals -- Voronoi diagrams -- The Platonic solids -- Pythagorean mosquitoes -- The most beautiful of all -- Mathematical objects. The power of math -- Doubts in the realm of certainty -- When chance enhances reliability -- The difficulty of chance -- Conjectures and proofs -- Mr. Benford -- Financial fractals -- Turing's test -- DNA computers -- Magical multiplication -- Pi day -- The best job in the world -- Out of this world. Electoral paradoxes -- The melon paradox -- The cupcake paradox -- Infinity -- Unfair games -- Monsieur Bertrand -- Boy or girl? -- A puzzle for Christmas -- Crisis time for Easter eggs.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Mathematics, Popular works
Einfeuhrung, swd
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QA93
Book number
.
C7313
2010
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Crato, Nuno.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Country
ایران
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