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

Burger, Edward B.; Starbird, Michael

 
9780393329315: Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393329313 ISBN 13: 9780393329315
Verlag: Norton & Company, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Edward B. Burger is professor of mathematics and chair at Williams College. He has won several prestigious teaching and writing awards from the Mathematical Association of America. He lives in Massachusetts.

Michael Starbird is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of UT’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He lives in Texas.

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Verlag
Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393329313
ISBN 13 
9780393329315
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
276
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