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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Burger, Edward B., 1963-     Subjects     Mathematics -- Humor.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Burger, Edward B., 1963-       by title:      Coincidences, chaos,...         MARC Display

Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz : making light of weighty ideas / Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird ; original art by Alan Witschonke Illustration. by Burger, Edward B., 1963- New York : W.W. Norton, c2005. Subjects Mathematics -- Humor. Electronic Resource http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005011106.html ISBN:  0393059456 (hardcover) 9780393059458 (hardcover) Description:  ix, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  Understanding uncertainty : coincidences -- Chaos, and confusion -- Unbridled coincidences : likelihood, lady luck, and lady love -- Chaos reigns : why we can't predict the future -- Digesting life's data : statistical surprises -- Embracing figures: sensing secrecy -- Magnificent magnitudes, and nature's numbers -- Secrets held, secrets revealed : cryptography decrypted -- Sizing up numbers : how many? how big? how quick? -- A synergy between nature and number : a search for -- Pattern -- Exploring aesthetics: sexy rectangles -- Fiery fractals, and contortions of space -- From precise beauty to pure chaos: picturing aesthetics -- Through the lens of mathematics -- Origami for the origamically challenged: from paper folding -- To computers and fiery fractals -- A twisted turn in an amorphous universe: an exploration of -- An elasticized world -- transcending reality: the fourth -- Dimension and infinity -- The universe next door: the magic of the fourth dimension -- Moving beyond the confines of our nutshell: a journey into -- Infinity -- In search of something still larger: a journey beyond -- Infinity. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 510 Bu Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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