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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 art by Alan Witschonke Illustration.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$cc2005.
300 $aix, 276 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]) 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.
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