Figuring it out: entertaining encounters with everyday math
by Crato, Nuno
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 occurring when the rules of Cartesian geometry are ignored, small-change errors due to ignorance of ancient paradoxes, and mistakes in calendars arising from poor numerical approximations. This book is …
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- Full title :Figuring it out : entertaining encounters with everyday math / Nuno Crato.
Summary
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 occurring when the rules of Cartesian geometry are ignored, small-change errors due to ignorance of ancient paradoxes, and mistakes in calendars arising from poor numerical approximations. This book is about the power and beauty of mathematics. It shows mathematics in action, explained in a way that everybody can understand.
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- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Springer
- Place of Publication:Heidelberg
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 227 pages) : : illustrations, maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783642048333, 3642048331, 9783642048579, 3642048579, 9783662505526, 3662505525
- DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-04833-3
- oclc:ocn681900080
- LC Classification:QA93
- Dewey Decimal:510
Table of Contents
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 Bob -- 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 te…
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