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LEADER: 02025cam a22002654a 4500
001 2005011106
003 DLC
005 20060315153608.0
008 050421s2005 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005011106
020 $a0393059456 (hardcover)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQA99$b.B87 2005
082 00 $a510$222
100 1 $aBurger, Edward B.,$d1963-
245 10 $aCoincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz :$bmaking light of weighty ideas /$cEdward B. Burger, Michael Starbird ; original illustrations by Alan Witschonke.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$cc2005.
300 $aix, 276 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aUnderstanding 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.
650 0 $aMathematics$vHumor.
700 1 $aStarbird, Michael P.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005011106.html