50 visions of mathematics /
edited by Sam Parc.
- First edition.
- ix, 198 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
A bad mathematician's apology / What's the problem with mathematics? / mathematics of messages / Decathlon : the art of scoring points / Queen Dido and the mathematics of the extreme / Can strings tie things together? / Dimples, grooves, and knuckleballs / Pigs didn't fly but swine flu / Bill Tutte : unsung Bletchley hero / What's the use of a quadratic equation? / Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme / mathematics of obesity / It's a small world really / How does mathematics help at a murder scene? / Mathematics : the language of the universe / troublesome geometry of CAT scanning / mathematics of sports gambling / Pythagoras's Theorem: a² : conversation with Freeman Dyson / glass of bubbly / influenza virus : it's all in the packaging / Solving the Bristol bridge problem / All ravens are black: puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics / Tower of Hanoi: where mathematics meets psychology / Career: a sample path / Sweets in the jar / Mary Cartwright / fallibility of mathematics / Anecdotes of Dr Barrow / Finding Apollo / golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics / high-power hypar / This is not a carrot: paraconsistent mathematics / mystery of Groombridge Place / Pythagoras's Theorem b² : Mathematicians at the movies: Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty / mysterious number 6174 / Percolating possibilities / Milestones on a non-Euclidean journey / Simpson's rule / Risking your life / Networks and illusions / Emmy Noether: against the odds / Of catastrophes and creodes / Conic section hide and seek / Sir James Lighthill: a life in waves / Fail safe or fail dangerous? / Leapfrogging into the future / Motorway mathematics / philosophy of applied mathematics / Mighty morphogenesis / Called to the barcode / Roughly fifty-fifty? / Pythagoras's theorem: c². Dara O Briain -- David Acheson -- Alan J. Aw -- John D. Barrow -- Greg Bason -- David Berman -- Ken Bray -- Ellen Brooks-Pollock and Ken Eames -- Chris Budd -- Chris Budd and Chris Sangwin -- Alan Champneys -- Carson C. Chow -- Tony Crilly -- Graham Divall -- Marcus Du Sautoy -- Richard Elwes -- Alistair Fitt -- Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas ; Paul Glendinning ; Julia Gog ; Thilo Gross ; David Hand ; Andreas M. Hinz and Marianne Freiberger ; Philip Holmes ; Steve Humble ; Lisa Jardine ; Adam Jasko ; Tom Körner ; Adam Kucharski ; Mario Livio ; Peter Lynch ; Maarten McKubre-Jordens ; Alexander Masters and Simon Norton -- Derek E. Moulton and Alain Goriely; Yutaka Nishiyama ; Colva Roney-Dougal and Vince Vatter ; Caroline Series ; Simon Singh ; David Spiegelhalter ; Ian Stewart ; Danielle Stretch ; Paul Taylor ; Rachel Thomas ; Ahmer Wadee ; Ahmer Wadee and Alan Champneys ; Paul Williams ; Eddie Wilson ; Phil Wilson ; Thomas Woolley ; Andrew Wrigley ; Günter M. Ziegler -- Foreward: The The The The A A The The The The The The The The
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), 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.
9780198701811
2013948420
GBB423656 bnb
016642404 Uk
Mathematics--Popular works.
Mathematics.
Unterhaltungsmathematik.
Angewandte Mathematik.
Mathematik.
Mathematics.
Popular works.
QA93 / .F54 2014
510 / 23
Includes bibliographical references.
A bad mathematician's apology / What's the problem with mathematics? / mathematics of messages / Decathlon : the art of scoring points / Queen Dido and the mathematics of the extreme / Can strings tie things together? / Dimples, grooves, and knuckleballs / Pigs didn't fly but swine flu / Bill Tutte : unsung Bletchley hero / What's the use of a quadratic equation? / Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme / mathematics of obesity / It's a small world really / How does mathematics help at a murder scene? / Mathematics : the language of the universe / troublesome geometry of CAT scanning / mathematics of sports gambling / Pythagoras's Theorem: a² : conversation with Freeman Dyson / glass of bubbly / influenza virus : it's all in the packaging / Solving the Bristol bridge problem / All ravens are black: puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics / Tower of Hanoi: where mathematics meets psychology / Career: a sample path / Sweets in the jar / Mary Cartwright / fallibility of mathematics / Anecdotes of Dr Barrow / Finding Apollo / golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics / high-power hypar / This is not a carrot: paraconsistent mathematics / mystery of Groombridge Place / Pythagoras's Theorem b² : Mathematicians at the movies: Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty / mysterious number 6174 / Percolating possibilities / Milestones on a non-Euclidean journey / Simpson's rule / Risking your life / Networks and illusions / Emmy Noether: against the odds / Of catastrophes and creodes / Conic section hide and seek / Sir James Lighthill: a life in waves / Fail safe or fail dangerous? / Leapfrogging into the future / Motorway mathematics / philosophy of applied mathematics / Mighty morphogenesis / Called to the barcode / Roughly fifty-fifty? / Pythagoras's theorem: c². Dara O Briain -- David Acheson -- Alan J. Aw -- John D. Barrow -- Greg Bason -- David Berman -- Ken Bray -- Ellen Brooks-Pollock and Ken Eames -- Chris Budd -- Chris Budd and Chris Sangwin -- Alan Champneys -- Carson C. Chow -- Tony Crilly -- Graham Divall -- Marcus Du Sautoy -- Richard Elwes -- Alistair Fitt -- Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas ; Paul Glendinning ; Julia Gog ; Thilo Gross ; David Hand ; Andreas M. Hinz and Marianne Freiberger ; Philip Holmes ; Steve Humble ; Lisa Jardine ; Adam Jasko ; Tom Körner ; Adam Kucharski ; Mario Livio ; Peter Lynch ; Maarten McKubre-Jordens ; Alexander Masters and Simon Norton -- Derek E. Moulton and Alain Goriely; Yutaka Nishiyama ; Colva Roney-Dougal and Vince Vatter ; Caroline Series ; Simon Singh ; David Spiegelhalter ; Ian Stewart ; Danielle Stretch ; Paul Taylor ; Rachel Thomas ; Ahmer Wadee ; Ahmer Wadee and Alan Champneys ; Paul Williams ; Eddie Wilson ; Phil Wilson ; Thomas Woolley ; Andrew Wrigley ; Günter M. Ziegler -- Foreward: The The The The A A The The The The The The The The
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), 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.
9780198701811
2013948420
GBB423656 bnb
016642404 Uk
Mathematics--Popular works.
Mathematics.
Unterhaltungsmathematik.
Angewandte Mathematik.
Mathematik.
Mathematics.
Popular works.
QA93 / .F54 2014
510 / 23