An edition of Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz
(2005)
Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz
Making Light of Weighty Ideas
First Edition
by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird
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Publish Date
August 29, 2005
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company,
W.W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
276
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Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas
August 29, 2005, W. W. Norton & Company, W.W. Norton
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in English
- First Edition
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First Sentence
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Table of Contents
Opening Thoughts /vii
Part I / UNDERSTANDING UNCERTAINTY / Coincidences, chaos and Confusion / 1
1- / UNBRIDLED COINCIDENCES / Likelihood, Lady Luck, and Lady Love / 3
2- / CHAOS REIGNS/ Why We Can't Predict the Future / 20
3- / DIGESTING LIFE'S DATA / Statistical Surprises / 42
Part-II / EMBRACING FIGURES / Sensing Secrecy, Magnificent Magnitudes, and Nature's Numbers / 63
4- / SECRETS HELD, SECRETS REVEALED / Cryptography Decrypted / 65
5- / SIZING UP NUMBERS /How many? How Big? How Quick / 78
6- / A SYNERGY BETWEEN NATURE AND NUMBER / A Search for Pattern / 100
Part III / EXPLORING AESTHETICS / Sexy Rectangles, Fiery Fractals, and Contortions of Space / 121
7- / FROM PRECISE BEAUTY TO PURE CHAOS / Picturing Aesthetics Through the Lens of Mathematics / 123
8- / ORIGAMI FOR THE ORIGAMICALLY CHALLENGED / From Paper Folding to Computers and Fiery Fractals / 146
9- / A TWISTED TURN IN AN AMORPHOUS UNIVERSE / An Exploration of an Elasticized World / 166
Part IV / TRANSCENDING REALITY / The Fourth Dimension and Infinity / 199
10- / THE UNIVERSE NEXT DOOR / The Magic of the Fourth Dimension / 201
11- / MOVING BEYOND THE CONFINES OF OUR NUTSHELL / A Journey to Infinity / 231
12- / IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING STILL LARGER / A Journey Beyond Infinity / 246
Closing Thoughts / 267
Acknowledgements / 268
Further Resources / 269
Permissions / 270
Index / 271
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