50 visions of mathematics /
50 visions of mathematics /
Fifty visions of mathematics
edited by Sam Parc.
- ix, 198 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
A bad mathematician's apology / What's the problem with mathematics? / The 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 / The mathematics of obesity / It's a small world really / How does mathematics help at a murder scene? / Mathematics : the language of the universe / The troublesome geometry of CAT scanning / The mathematics of sports gambling / Pythagoras's Theorem : a². A conversation with Freeman Dyson / A glass of bubbly / The influenza virus : it's all in the packaging / Solving the Bristol bridge problem / All ravens are black : puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics / The Tower of Hanoi : where mathematics meets psychology / Career : a sample path / Sweets in the jar / Mary Cartwright / The fallibility of mathematics / Anecdotes of Dr Barrow / Finding Apollo / The golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics / The high-power hypar / This is not a carrot : paraconsistent mathematics / The mystery of Groombridge Place / Pythagoras's Theorem : b². Mathematicians at the movies : Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty / The 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 / The 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 -- Forward:
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.
0198701810 9780198701811
2013948420
Mathematics--Popular works
QA93 / .A15 2014b QA93 / .F54 2014
510
Includes bibliographical references.
A bad mathematician's apology / What's the problem with mathematics? / The 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 / The mathematics of obesity / It's a small world really / How does mathematics help at a murder scene? / Mathematics : the language of the universe / The troublesome geometry of CAT scanning / The mathematics of sports gambling / Pythagoras's Theorem : a². A conversation with Freeman Dyson / A glass of bubbly / The influenza virus : it's all in the packaging / Solving the Bristol bridge problem / All ravens are black : puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics / The Tower of Hanoi : where mathematics meets psychology / Career : a sample path / Sweets in the jar / Mary Cartwright / The fallibility of mathematics / Anecdotes of Dr Barrow / Finding Apollo / The golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics / The high-power hypar / This is not a carrot : paraconsistent mathematics / The mystery of Groombridge Place / Pythagoras's Theorem : b². Mathematicians at the movies : Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty / The 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 / The 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 -- Forward:
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.
0198701810 9780198701811
2013948420
Mathematics--Popular works
QA93 / .A15 2014b QA93 / .F54 2014
510