Figuring It Out : Entertaining Encounters with Everyday Math
This is a book of mathematical stories funny and puzzling mathematical stories. They tell of villains who try to steal secrets, heroes who encode their messages, and mathematicians who spend years on end searching for the best way to pile oranges. There are also stories about highway confusions occu...
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| Natura: | Livre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Copernicus
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Cham : Springer Nature |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2010. |
| Accesso online: | Accès sur la plateforme de l'éditeur Accès sur la plateforme Istex Accès Université d'Orléans Accès INSA CVL |
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Archives Springer e-books (Licence nationale) Archives Springer e-books (Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Figuring It Out, Texte imprimé, 9783642048326 • Figuring It Out, Texte imprimé, 9783642048579 • Figuring It Out, Texte imprimé, 9783662505526 |
Sommario:
- Everyday Matters The Dinner Table Algorithm Cutting the Christmas Cake Oranges and Computers When Two and Two Don t Make Four Getting More Intelligent Every Day The Other Lane Always Goes Faster Shoelaces and Neckties Number Puzzles Tossing a Coin The Switch Eubulides, The Heap and The Euro The Earth is Round How GPS Works Gear Wheels February 29 The Nonius Scale Pedro Nunes Map Lighthouse Geometry Asteroids and Least Squares The Useful Man and the Genius Secret Affairs Alice and Bob1 Inviolate Cybersecrets Quantum Cryptography The FBI Wavelet The Enigma Machine Art and Geometry The Vitruvian Man The Golden Number The Geometry of A4 Paper Sizes The Strange Worlds of Escher Escher and the Möbius Strip Picasso, Einstein and the Fourth Dimension Pollock s Fractals Voronoi Diagrams The Platonic Solids Pythagorean Mosquitoes The Most Beautiful of All Mathematical Objects The Power of Math Doubts in the Realm of Certainty When Chance Enhances Reliability The Difficulty of Chance Conjectures and Proofs Mr. Benford Financial Fractals Turing s Test DNA Computers Magical Multiplication ? Day