| Description |
xvi, 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
What is mathematics? Useful invention or absolute truth : what is math? / George Johnson ; But aren't truth and beauty supposed to be enough? / James Gleick ; Mathematicians meet computerized ideas / Gina Kolata ; Mathematicians finally log on / James Gleick ; With major math proof, brute computers show flash of reasoning power / Gina Kolata ; Computers still can't do beautiful mathematics / Gina Kolata ; 100 quadrillion calculations later, eureka! / Gina Kolata ; Theorist applies computer power to uncertainty in statistics / Gina Kolata -- Statistics, coincidences, and surprising facts. 1-in-a-trillion coincidence, you say? Not really, experts find / Gina Kolata ; Sometimes heavier objects go to the top : here's why / James Gleick ; Behind Monty Hall's doors : puzzle, debate and answer? / John Tierney ; What if they closed 42nd Street and nobody noticed? / Gina Kolata ; Down for the count : why some numbers are only very good guesses / Gina Kolata ; Could it be? Weather has nothing to do with your arthritis pain? / Gina Kolata ; Electronics to aid weather figuring / Sidney Shalett ; Insurance as a study : something of the men who figure business by algebra ; Leontief's contribution / Leonard Silk ; Many small events may add up to one mass extinction / Malcolm W. Browne ; Metric mania / John Allen Paulos ; In shuffling cards, 7 is a winning number / Gina Kolata ; Can game theory predict when Iran will get the bomb? / Clive Thompson ; In modeling risk, the human factor was left out / Steve Lohr ; Playing the odds / George Johnson ; Monday puzzle : solution to birthday problem / Pradeep Mutalik ; Just what are your odds in genetic roulette? Go figure / Gina Kolata ; The 2000 election : the science of counting / Gina Kolata ; Prospectus : can a computer program figure out the market? A former analyst and a mathematician are betting that theirs can / Janet Stites ; New tools for the I.R.S. to sniff out tax cheats / David Cay Johnston -- Famous problems, solved and as yet unsolved. New mathematics links two worlds / William L. Laurence ; An elusive proof and its elusive prover / Dennis Overbye ; Ask science : Poincaré's conjecture / Dennis Overbye ; Grigori Perelman's beautiful mind / Jascha Hoffman ; A math problem solver declines a $1 million prize / Dennis Overbye ; "Four-color problem" attacked / William L. Laurence ; Four-color proof ; Goldbach's conjecture : this one may be provable, but we may never know / George Johnson ; Mathematics expert may soon resolve a 350-year problem / James Gleick ; Fermat's theorem solved? Not this time / James Gleick ; Fermat's last theorem still has 0 solutions / James Gleick ; At last, shout of "Eureka!" in age-old math mystery / Gina Kolata ; Fermat's theorem / James Gleick ; Flaw is found in math proof, but repairs are under way / Gina Kolata ; A year later Fermat's puzzle is still not quite Q.E.D. / Gina Kolata ; How a gap in the Fermat proof was bridged / Gina Kolata ; Two key mathematics questions answered after quarter century / John A. Osmundsen ; Mathematical theory of poker is applied to business problems / Will Lissner ; Soap bubbles get a new role in old mathematics problem / Joseph Williams ; Math advance penetrates secrets of knots / James Gleick ; Packing tetrahedrons, and closing in on a perfect fit / Kenneth Chang ; Finding order in the apparent chaos of currents / Bina Venkataraman ; In bubbles and metal, the art of shape-shifting / Kenneth Chang ; The scientific promise of perfect symmetry / Kenneth Chang ; 143-year-old problem still has mathematicians guessing / Bruce Schechter ; What is the most important problem in math today? / Gina Kolata ; Solution to old puzzle : how short a shortcut? / Gina Kolata -- Chaos, catastrophe, and randomness. Chaos is defined by new calculus ; Experts debate the prediction of disasters / Malcolm W. Browne ; Solving the mathematical riddle of chaos / James Gleick ; The man who reshaped geometry / James Gleick ; Snowflake's riddle yields to probing of science / James Gleick ; Tales of chaos : tumbling moons and unstable asteroids / James Gleick ; Fluid math made simple-- sort of / James Gleick ; When chaos rules the market / James Gleick ; New appreciation of the complexity in a flock of birds / James Gleick ; Indestructible wave may hold key to superconductors / James Gleick ; The quest for true randomness finally appears successful / James Gleick ; Coin-tossing computers found to show subtle bias / Malcolm W. Browne ; Science squints at a future fogged by chaotic uncertainty / Malcolm W. Browne ; Probing disease clusters : easier to spot than prove / Gina Kolata ; The odds of that / Lisa Belkin ; Fractal vision / James Gleick -- Cryptography and the emergence of truly unbreakable codes. Harassment alleged over code research / Malcolm W. Browne ; Researchers to permit pre-publication review by U.S. / Richard Severo ; Tighter security rules for advances in cryptology / Walter Sullivan ; A new approach to protecting secrets is discovered / James Gleick ; Brief U.S. suppression of proof stirs anger ; A most ferocious math problem tamed / Malcolm W. Browne ; Biggest division a giant leap in math / Gina Kolata ; Scientists devise math tool to break a protective code / John Markoff ; Tied up in knots, cryptographers test their limits / Gina Kolata ; A public battle over secret codes / John Markoff ; U.S. code agency is jostling for civilian turf / John Markoff ; Researchers demonstrate computer code can be broken / Sara Robinson ; Nick Patterson, a cold war cryptologist takes a crack at deciphering DNA's deep secrets / Ingfei Chen ; Adding math to list of security threats / John Markoff ; Prizes aside, the P-NP puzzler has consequences / John Markoff -- Computers enter the world of mathematics."Thinking machine" does higher mathematics, solves equations that take humans months ; New giant "brain" does wizard work ; "Brain" speeded up for war problems / Will Lissner ; The electronic digital computer : how it started, how it works and what it does / Henry L. Lieberman and Dr. Louis Robinson ; New shortcut found for long math proofs / Gina Kolata ; New technique stores images more efficiently / Gina Kolata ; Giant computer virtually conquers space and time / George Johnson ; Rear Adm. Grace M. Hopper dies, innovator in computers was 85 / John Markoff ; Frances E. Holberton, 84, early computer programmer / Steve Lohr ; Squeezing data like an accordion / Peter Wayner ; A digital brain makes connections / Anne Eisenberg ; A Soviet discovery rocks world of mathematics / Malcolm W. Browne ; The health care debate : finding what works / Gina Kolata ; Step 1 : post elusive proof. Step 2 : watch fireworks / John Markoff -- Mathematicians and their world. Paul Erdos, 83, a wayfarer in math's vanguard, is dead / Gina Kolata ; Journeys to the distant fields of prime / Kenneth Chang ; Highest honor in mathematics is refused / Kenneth Chang ; Scientist at work : John H. Conway, at home in the elusive world of mathematics / Gina Kolata ; Claude Shannon, B. 1916-- bit player / James Gleick ; An isolated genius is given his due / James Gleick ; Scientist at work : Andrew Wiles, math whiz who battled 350-year-old problem / Gina Kolata ; Scientist at work : Leonard Adleman, hitting the high spots of computer theory / Gina Kolata ; Dr. Kurt Gödel, 71, mathematician / Peter B. Flint ; Genius or gibberish? The strange world of the math crank / George Johnson. |
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What is mathematics? -- Statistics, coincidences, and surprising facts -- Famous problems, solved and as yet unsolved -- Chaos, catastrophe, and randomness -- Cryptography and the emergence of truly unbreakable codes -- Computers enter the world of mathematics -- Mathematicians and their world. |
| Subject |
Mathematics.
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Mathematik.
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| Added Author |
Kolata, Gina Bari, 1948- editor of compilation.
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| Added Title |
Book of mathematics |
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Mathematics |
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New York times.
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| ISBN |
9781402793226: $24.95 |
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1402793227 |
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