The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity - Hardcover

Strogatz, Steven

 
9781848878433: The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1848878435 ISBN 13: 9781848878433
Verlag: Atlantic Books, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Maths is everywhere, often where we least expect it. Award-winning professor Steven Strogatz acts as our guide as he takes us on a tour of numbers that - unbeknownst to the most of us - form a fascinating and integral part of our everyday lives. In The Joy of X, Strogatz explains the great ideas of maths - from negative numbers to calculus, fat tails to infinity - and shows how they connect to everything from popular culture and philosophy to current affairs and business practice. He is the maths teacher you never had and this book is perfect for the smart and curious, the expert and the beginner.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Steven Strogatz is the professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University. A renowned teacher, and one of the world's most highly-cited mathematicians, he received MIT's E.M. Baker Award. He is the author of the bestselling Sync and The Calculus of Friendship. He lives in New York with his wife Carole and their two daughters.

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Verlag
Atlantic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1848878435
ISBN 13 
9781848878433
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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