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0309096588 (cloth : alk. paper)
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IR
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EN-53167
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انگلیسی
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTlON
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IR
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The secret life of numbers :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
:50 easy pieces on how mathematicians work and think
First Statement of Responsibility
/ George G. Szpiro
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Washington, D.C.
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Joseph Henry Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, c2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 210 p. , 23 cm.
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Electronic
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-198) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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"Chock full of stories, anecdotes, and vignettes, The Secret Life of Numbers shows us how mathematics really does affect almost every aspect of life - from the law to geography, elections to botany - and we come to appreciate the delight and gratification that mathematics holds for all of us."--BOOK JACKET.
Text of Note
1. Lopping leap years -- 2. Is the world coming to an end soon? -- 3. Cozy Zurich -- 4. Daniel Bernoulli and his difficult family -- 5. mathematicians' million dollar baby -- 6. puzzle by any other name -- 7. Twins, cousins, and sexy primes -- 8. Hilbert's elusive problem number 16 -- 9. tile layer's efficiency problem -- 10. Catalanian rabbi's problem -- 11. Even infinite series end sometimes -- 12. Proving the proof -- 13. Has Poincare's conjecture finally been solved? -- 14. Late tribute to a tragic hero -- 15. unpaid professor -- 16. Genius from a different planet -- 17. resurrection of geometry -- 18. God's gift to science? -- 19. Vice-president of imagineering -- 20. demoted pensioner -- 21. grand master becomes permanent visiting professor -- 22. Knots and "unknots" -- 23. Knots and tangles with real ropes -- 24. Small mistakes may have large consequences -- 25. Ignorant gamblers -- 26. Tetris is hard -- 27. Groups, monster groups, and baby monsters -- 28. Fermat's incorrect conjecture -- 29. crash of catastrophe theory -- 30. Deceptive simplicity -- 31. beauty of dissymmetry -- 32. Random and not so random -- 33. How can one be sure it's prime? -- 34. mathematician judges the judges (law) -- 35. Elections aren't decided by the voters alone (political science) -- 36. dollar isn't always worth a dollar (insurance) -- 37. Compressing the divine comedy (linguistics) -- 38. Nature's fundamental formula (botany) -- 39. Stacking words like oranges and tomatoes (computer science) -- 40. fractal dimension of Israel's security barrier (geography) -- 41. Calculated in cold ice (physics) -- 42. Built on sand (physics) -- 43. Buzzing around corners (biology) -- 44. Inexperienced traders make the market efficient (economics) -- 45. waggle dance of Internet servers (computer science, biology) -- 46. Turbulent liquids and stock markets (finance, economics) -- 47. Encrypting messages with candles and hot plates (cryptography) -- 48. Fighting for survival (evolutionary theory, finance) -- 49. Insults stink (neurosciences, economics) -- 50. Bible codes : the not so final report (theology).
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Mathematics , History
Wiskunde. , gtt
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Szpiro, George, 1950-
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