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Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz, making light of weighty ideas, Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird ; original art by Alan Witschonke Illustration

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Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz, making light of weighty ideas, Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird ; original art by Alan Witschonke Illustration

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird ; original art by Alan Witschonke Illustration

Sub title

making light of weighty ideas

Table Of Contents

Understanding uncertainty : coincidences, chaos, and confusion -- Unbridled coincidences : likelihood, lady luck, and lady love -- Chaos reigns : why we can't predict the future -- Digesting life's data : statistical surprises -- Embracing figures: sensing secrecy, magnificent magnitudes, and nature's numbers -- Secrets held, secrets revealed : cryptography decrypted -- Sizing up numbers : how many? how big? how quick? -- A synergy between nature and number : a search for pattern -- Exploring aesthetics: sexy rectangles, fiery fractals, and contortions of space -- From precise beauty to pure chaos: picturing aesthetics through the lens of mathematics -- Origami for the origamically challenged: from paper folding to computers and fiery fractals -- A twisted turn in an amorphous universe: an exploration of an elasticized world -- Transcending reality: the fourth dimension and infinity -- The universe next door: the magic of the fourth dimension -- Moving beyond the confines of our nutshell: a journey into infinity -- In search of something still larger: a journey beyond infinity

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