Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz : Making Light of Weighty Ideas

ISBN-13: 9780393329315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str.

Edward B. Burger; Michael Starbird; Alan Witschonke

Opis

A book for the eternally curious, Coincidences fuses a professor s understanding of the hidden mathematical skeleton of the universe with the sensibility of a stand-up comedian, making life s big questions accessible and compelling. Each chapter opens with a surprising insight not a mathematic formula, but a common observation. From there, the authors leapfrog over math and anecdote toward profound ideas about nature, art, and music. Coincidences is a book for lovers of puzzles and posers of outlandish questions, lapsed math aficionados and the formula-phobic alike."

"A profusely illustrated, bemusingly unorthodox introduction to math."-Booklist