Beyond Numeracy: Ruminations of a Numbers ManFrom the author of the national bestseller Innumeracy, a delightful exploration of the beauty and fascination of mathematics. Entries range from algebra, coincidence, game theory, non-Euclidean geometry, calculus, and probability theory to such new areas of mathematics as chaos, fractals, recursion, and complexity in this accessible work. 47 drawings.election. |
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... figure toward which a sequence of inscribed regular polygons converges , we can use the notions of partitioning and ... figures is the rectangular box whose volume V is determined by multiplying its length times its width times its ...
... figure toward which a sequence of inscribed regular polygons converges , we can use the notions of partitioning and ... figures is the rectangular box whose volume V is determined by multiplying its length times its width times its ...
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... figures are subjected to various changes and transformations . More generally , given any specified collection of transformations ( rigid motions in the plane , uniform compressions , projections ) , Klein asked what properties of figures ...
... figures are subjected to various changes and transformations . More generally , given any specified collection of transformations ( rigid motions in the plane , uniform compressions , projections ) , Klein asked what properties of figures ...
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... Figures of genus 2 , such as eyeglass frames without the lenses or pretzels , contain two holes and can sustain two cuts without separating into two pieces . And so on for figures with higher genus . Q A clay coffee cup with a handle ...
... Figures of genus 2 , such as eyeglass frames without the lenses or pretzels , contain two holes and can sustain two cuts without separating into two pieces . And so on for figures with higher genus . Q A clay coffee cup with a handle ...
Contents
A Mathematical Accent | 5 |
Areas and Volumes | 18 |
Binary Numbers and Codes | 24 |
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