Math bytes: Google bombs, chocolate-covered pi, and other cool bits in computing
This book provides a fun, hands-on approach to learning how mathematics and computing relate to the world around us and help us to better understand it. How can reposting on Twitter kill a movie's opening weekend? How can you use mathematics to find your celebrity look-alike? What is Homer Simpson's method for disproving Fermat's Last Theorem? Each topic in this refreshingly inviting book illustrates a famous mathematical algorithm or result--such as Google's PageRank and the traveling salesman…
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- Full title :Math bytes : Google bombs, chocolate-covered pi, and other cool bits in computing / Timothy P. Chartier.
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This book provides a fun, hands-on approach to learning how mathematics and computing relate to the world around us and help us to better understand it. How can reposting on Twitter kill a movie's opening weekend? How can you use mathematics to find your celebrity look-alike? What is Homer Simpson's method for disproving Fermat's Last Theorem? Each topic in this refreshingly inviting book illustrates a famous mathematical algorithm or result--such as Google's PageRank and the traveling salesman problem--and the applications grow more challenging as you progress through the chapters.
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- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xi, 136 pages) : : illustrations (some color)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781400851423, 1400851424
- oclc:ocn875096318
- LC Classification:QA93
- Dewey Decimal:510
Table of Contents
Your first byte -- Deceiving arithmetic -- Two by two -- Infinite detail -- Plot the course -- Doodling into a labyrinth -- Obama-cize yourself -- Painting with M & Ms -- Distorting reality -- A pretty mathematical face -- March MATHness -- Ranking a googol of bits -- A byte to go -- Up to the challenge -- List of figures.
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