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50 visions of mathematics / edited by Sam Parc.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: ix, 198 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0198701810
  • 9780198701811
Other title:
  • Fifty visions of mathematics
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 510 23
LOC classification:
  • QA93 .A15 2014b
  • QA93 .F54 2014
Contents:
Forward: 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.
Summary: 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.
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Forward: 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.

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.

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