| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
ix, 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page [269]) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Humor.
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| Added Author |
Starbird, Michael
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Alan Witschonke Illustration.
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| ISBN |
0393059456 hardcover |
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