100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know - Hardcover

Barrow, John D.

 
9781847920034: 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1847920039 ISBN 13: 9781847920034
Verlag: The Bodley Head Ltd, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple,
it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.'
John von Neumann

Mathematics can tell you things about the world that can't be learned in any other way. This hugely informative and wonderfully entertaining little book answers one hundred essential questions about existence. It unravels the knotty, clarifies the conundrums and sheds light into dark corners. From winning the lottery, placing bets at the races and escaping from bears to sports, Shakepeare, Google, game theory, drunks, divorce settlements and dodgy accounting; from chaos to infinity and everything in between, 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know has all the answers!

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John D. Barrow is Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the current Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London. His principal area of scientific research is cosmology, and he is the author of many highly acclaimed books about the nature and significance of modern developments in physics, astronomy, and mathematics, including The Origin of the Universe; The Universe that Discovered Itself; The Book of Nothing; The Constants of Nature; The Infinite Book: a Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless, The Artful Universe Expanded, and New Theories of Everything, and 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know. He is also the author of the award-winning play Infinities.

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Verlag
The Bodley Head Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847920039
ISBN 13 
9781847920034
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
304
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