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50 Visions of Mathematics
Buch von Dara O' Briain
Sprache: Englisch

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Relax: no one understands technical mathematics without lengthy training but we all have an intuitive grasp of the ideas behind the symbols. This book is designed to showcase the beauty of mathematics - including images inspired by mathematical problems - together with its unreasonable effectiveness and applicability, without frying your brain.
Relax: no one understands technical mathematics without lengthy training but we all have an intuitive grasp of the ideas behind the symbols. This book is designed to showcase the beauty of mathematics - including images inspired by mathematical problems - together with its unreasonable effectiveness and applicability, without frying your brain.
Über den Autor
Sam Parc studied mathematics and engineering in the UK, Germany and Australia and has previously worked at the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cambridge, Manchester and Newcastle and at Imperial College London. She works for the UK's Institute of Mathematics and its Applications where she provides a passion for popularising mathematics. Her previous work has involved writing a mathematical agony aunt column in a provincial newspaper and maintaining a popular online mathematical magazine. She lives in Southend-on-Sea with her large family and dog, Benji. This is her first book.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: David Acheson: What's the problem with mathematics?

  • 2: Alan J. Aw: The mathematics of messages

  • 3: John D. Barrow: Decathlon: The art of scoring points

  • 4: Greg Bason: Queen Dido and the mathematics of the extreme

  • 5: David Berman: Can strings tie things together?

  • 6: Ken Bray: Grooves and knuckleballs

  • 7: Ellen Brooks-Pollock and Ken Eames: Pigs didn't fly but swine flu

  • 8: Chris Budd: Bill Tutte: Unsung Bletchley hero

  • 9: Chris Budd and Chris Sangwin: What's the use of a quadratic equation?

  • 10: Alan Champneys: Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme

  • 11: Carson C. Chow: The mathematics of obesity

  • 12: Tony Crilly: It's a small world really

  • 13: Graham Divall: How does mathematics help at a murder scene?

  • 14: Marcus du Sautoy: Mathematics: The language of the universe

  • 15: Richard Elwes: The troublesome geometry of CAT scanning

  • 16: Alistair Fitt: The mathematics of sports gambling

  • Pythagoras's Theorem: a2

  • 17: Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas: A conversation with Freeman Dyson

  • 18: Paul Glendinning: A glass of bubbly

  • 19: Julia Gog: The influenza virus: It's all in the packaging

  • 20: Derek Moulton and Alain Goriely: Mathematicians at the movies: Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty

  • 21: Thilo Gross: Solving the Bristol bridge problem

  • 22: David Hand: All ravens are black: Puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics

  • 23: Andreas Hinz and Marianne Freiberger: The Tower of Hanoi: Where mathematics meets psychology

  • 24: Philip Holmes: Career: A sample path

  • 25: Steve Humble: Sweets in the jar

  • 26: Lisa Jardine: Mary Cartwright

  • 27: Adam Jasko: The fallibility of mathematics

  • 28: Tom Körner: Anecdotes of Dr Barrow

  • 29: Adam Kucharski: Finding Apollo

  • 30: Mario Livio: The golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics

  • 31: Peter Lynch: The high-power hypar

  • 32: Maarten McKubre-Jordens: This is not a carrot: Paraconsistent mathematics

  • 33: Alexander Masters and Simon Norton: The mystery of Groombridge Place

  • Pythagoras's Theorem: b2

  • 34: Yutaka Nishiyama: Mysterious number 6174

  • 35: Colva Roney-Dougal and Vince Vatter: Percolating possibilities

  • 36: Caroline Series: Milestones on a non-Euclidean journey

  • 37: Simon Singh: Simpson's rule

  • 38: David Spiegelhalter: Risking your life

  • 39: Ian Stewart: Networks and illusions

  • 40: Danielle Stretch: Emmy Noether: Against the odds

  • 41: Paul Taylor: Of catastrophes and creodes: How maths benefits from collaboration with other fields

  • 42: Rachel Thomas: Conic section hide and seek

  • 43: Ahmer Wadee: Sir James Lighthill: A life in waves

  • 44: Ahmer Wadee and Alan Champneys: Fail safe or fail dangerous

  • 45: Paul Williams: Leapfrogging into the future: How child's play is at the heart of weather and climate models

  • 46: Eddie Wilson: Motorway mathematics

  • 47: Phil Wilson: The philosophy of applied mathematics

  • 48: Thomas Woolley: Mighty Morphogenesis

  • 49: Andrew Wrigley: Called to the barcode

  • 50: Günter Ziegler: Roughly fifty-fifty?

  • Pythagoras's Theorem: c2

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Mathematik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780198701811
ISBN-10: 0198701810
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Briain, Dara O'
Redaktion: Parc, Sam
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 251 x 192 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Dara O' Briain
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2014
Gewicht: 0,7 kg
Artikel-ID: 105557997
Über den Autor
Sam Parc studied mathematics and engineering in the UK, Germany and Australia and has previously worked at the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cambridge, Manchester and Newcastle and at Imperial College London. She works for the UK's Institute of Mathematics and its Applications where she provides a passion for popularising mathematics. Her previous work has involved writing a mathematical agony aunt column in a provincial newspaper and maintaining a popular online mathematical magazine. She lives in Southend-on-Sea with her large family and dog, Benji. This is her first book.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: David Acheson: What's the problem with mathematics?

  • 2: Alan J. Aw: The mathematics of messages

  • 3: John D. Barrow: Decathlon: The art of scoring points

  • 4: Greg Bason: Queen Dido and the mathematics of the extreme

  • 5: David Berman: Can strings tie things together?

  • 6: Ken Bray: Grooves and knuckleballs

  • 7: Ellen Brooks-Pollock and Ken Eames: Pigs didn't fly but swine flu

  • 8: Chris Budd: Bill Tutte: Unsung Bletchley hero

  • 9: Chris Budd and Chris Sangwin: What's the use of a quadratic equation?

  • 10: Alan Champneys: Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme

  • 11: Carson C. Chow: The mathematics of obesity

  • 12: Tony Crilly: It's a small world really

  • 13: Graham Divall: How does mathematics help at a murder scene?

  • 14: Marcus du Sautoy: Mathematics: The language of the universe

  • 15: Richard Elwes: The troublesome geometry of CAT scanning

  • 16: Alistair Fitt: The mathematics of sports gambling

  • Pythagoras's Theorem: a2

  • 17: Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas: A conversation with Freeman Dyson

  • 18: Paul Glendinning: A glass of bubbly

  • 19: Julia Gog: The influenza virus: It's all in the packaging

  • 20: Derek Moulton and Alain Goriely: Mathematicians at the movies: Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty

  • 21: Thilo Gross: Solving the Bristol bridge problem

  • 22: David Hand: All ravens are black: Puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics

  • 23: Andreas Hinz and Marianne Freiberger: The Tower of Hanoi: Where mathematics meets psychology

  • 24: Philip Holmes: Career: A sample path

  • 25: Steve Humble: Sweets in the jar

  • 26: Lisa Jardine: Mary Cartwright

  • 27: Adam Jasko: The fallibility of mathematics

  • 28: Tom Körner: Anecdotes of Dr Barrow

  • 29: Adam Kucharski: Finding Apollo

  • 30: Mario Livio: The golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics

  • 31: Peter Lynch: The high-power hypar

  • 32: Maarten McKubre-Jordens: This is not a carrot: Paraconsistent mathematics

  • 33: Alexander Masters and Simon Norton: The mystery of Groombridge Place

  • Pythagoras's Theorem: b2

  • 34: Yutaka Nishiyama: Mysterious number 6174

  • 35: Colva Roney-Dougal and Vince Vatter: Percolating possibilities

  • 36: Caroline Series: Milestones on a non-Euclidean journey

  • 37: Simon Singh: Simpson's rule

  • 38: David Spiegelhalter: Risking your life

  • 39: Ian Stewart: Networks and illusions

  • 40: Danielle Stretch: Emmy Noether: Against the odds

  • 41: Paul Taylor: Of catastrophes and creodes: How maths benefits from collaboration with other fields

  • 42: Rachel Thomas: Conic section hide and seek

  • 43: Ahmer Wadee: Sir James Lighthill: A life in waves

  • 44: Ahmer Wadee and Alan Champneys: Fail safe or fail dangerous

  • 45: Paul Williams: Leapfrogging into the future: How child's play is at the heart of weather and climate models

  • 46: Eddie Wilson: Motorway mathematics

  • 47: Phil Wilson: The philosophy of applied mathematics

  • 48: Thomas Woolley: Mighty Morphogenesis

  • 49: Andrew Wrigley: Called to the barcode

  • 50: Günter Ziegler: Roughly fifty-fifty?

  • Pythagoras's Theorem: c2

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Mathematik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780198701811
ISBN-10: 0198701810
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Briain, Dara O'
Redaktion: Parc, Sam
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 251 x 192 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Dara O' Briain
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2014
Gewicht: 0,7 kg
Artikel-ID: 105557997
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