This fun book uses stories to explain mathematics. It tells of villains whosteal secrets, heroes who encode messages, highway confusions that result from ignoring Cartesian geometry, mistakes in calendars due to poor numerical approximations, and more. INDICE: 1.Everyday Matters.The dinner table algorithm.-Cutting the Christmas cake.-Oranges and computers.-When two and two don't make four.-Getting moreintelligent every day.-The other lane always goes faster.-Shoelaces and neckties.-Number puzzles.-Tossing a coin.-The switch.- Eubulides, the heap and the euro.- 2.The Earth Is Round. How GPS works.-Gear wheels.- February 29.-The nonius scale.- Pedro Nunes' map.- Lighthouse geometry.-Asteroids and least squares.-The useful man and the genius.-3.Secret Affairs. Alice and Bob.- Inviolate cybersecrets.-Quantum cryptography.-The FBI wavelet.-The Enigma machine.-4. Art And Geometry.The Vitruvian Man.-The golden number.-The geometry of A4 paper sizes.-The strange worlds of Escher.-Escher and the Mobius belt.-Picasso, Einstein and the fourth dimension.-Pollock's fractals.-Voronoi diagrams.-The Platonic solids.-Pythagorean mosquitoes.-The most beautiful of all.- 5. Mathematical Matters.The power of math.-Doubts in the realm of certainty.-When chance enhances reliability.-The difficulty of randomness.-Conjectures and proofs.-Mr. Benford.-Financial fractals.-The Turing test.- DNA computers.-Magical multiplications.-Pi day.-The best job in the world.- 6. Out Of This World. Electoral paradoxes.-The melon paradox.- The cupcake paradox.- Infinity.-Unfair games.-Monsieur Bertrand.-Boy or Girl?.-A puzzle for Christmas.-Crisis time for Easter Eggs.
- ISBN: 978-3-642-04832-6
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 237
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés