TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parc,Sam
AU  - O Briain,Dara
ED  - Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications.
TI  - 50 visions of mathematics
SN  - 9780198701811
AV  - QA93 .F54 2014
U1  - 510 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Oxford, UK
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Unterhaltungsmathematik
KW  - gnd
KW  - Angewandte Mathematik
KW  - Mathematik
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Foreward; A bad mathematician's apology; Dara O Briain --; What's the problem with mathematics?; David Acheson --; The; mathematics of messages; Alan J. Aw --; Decathlon : the art of scoring points; John D. Barrow --; Queen Dido and the mathematics of the extreme; Greg Bason --; Can strings tie things together?; David Berman --; Dimples, grooves, and knuckleballs; Ken Bray --; Pigs didn't fly but swine flu; Ellen Brooks-Pollock and Ken Eames --; Bill Tutte : unsung Bletchley hero; Chris Budd --; What's the use of a quadratic equation?; Chris Budd and Chris Sangwin --; Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme; Alan Champneys --; The; mathematics of obesity; Carson C. Chow --; It's a small world really; Tony Crilly --; How does mathematics help at a murder scene?; Graham Divall --; Mathematics : the language of the universe; Marcus Du Sautoy --; The; troublesome geometry of CAT scanning; Richard Elwes --; The; mathematics of sports gambling; Alistair Fitt --; Pythagoras's Theorem: a²; A; conversation with Freeman Dyson; Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas; A; glass of bubbly; Paul Glendinning; The; influenza virus : it's all in the packaging; Julia Gog; Solving the Bristol bridge problem; Thilo Gross; All ravens are black: puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics; David Hand; The; Tower of Hanoi: where mathematics meets psychology; Andreas M. Hinz and Marianne Freiberger; Career: a sample path; Philip Holmes; Sweets in the jar; Steve Humble; Mary Cartwright; Lisa Jardine; The; fallibility of mathematics; Adam Jasko; Anecdotes of Dr Barrow; Tom Körner; Finding Apollo; Adam Kucharski; The; golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics; Mario Livio; The; high-power hypar; Peter Lynch; This is not a carrot: paraconsistent mathematics; Maarten McKubre-Jordens; The; mystery of Groombridge Place; Alexander Masters and Simon Norton --; Pythagoras's Theorem b²; Mathematicians at the movies: Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty; Derek E. Moulton and Alain Goriely; The; mysterious number 6174; Yutaka Nishiyama; Percolating possibilities; Colva Roney-Dougal and Vince Vatter; Milestones on a non-Euclidean journey; Caroline Series; Simpson's rule; Simon Singh; Risking your life; David Spiegelhalter; Networks and illusions; Ian Stewart; Emmy Noether: against the odds; Danielle Stretch; Of catastrophes and creodes; Paul Taylor; Conic section hide and seek; Rachel Thomas; Sir James Lighthill: a life in waves; Ahmer Wadee; Fail safe or fail dangerous?; Ahmer Wadee and Alan Champneys; Leapfrogging into the future; Paul Williams; Motorway mathematics; Eddie Wilson; The; philosophy of applied mathematics; Phil Wilson; Mighty morphogenesis; Thomas Woolley; Called to the barcode; Andrew Wrigley; Roughly fifty-fifty?; Günter M. Ziegler --; Pythagoras's theorem: c²
N2  - 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
ER  -