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James D. SteinPublication Details
Book1st edHarperCollins2008Availability
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Description
In How Math Explains the World, mathematician Stein reveals how seemingly arcane mathematical investigations and discoveries have led to bigger, more world-shaking insights into the nature of our world. Friendly, entertaining, and fun, How Math Explains the World is the first book by one of California’s most popular math teachers, a veteran of both “math for poets” and Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Studies. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Prologue: Why your car never seems to be ready when they promised
- Describing the universe
- The measure of all things
- Reality checks
- All things great and small
- The incomplete toolbox
- Impossible constructions
- The Hope Diamond of mathematics
- Never the twain shall meet
- Even logic has limits
- Space and time: is that all there is?
- Information: the Goldilocks dilemma
- Murphy’s law
- The disorganized universe
- The raw materials
- The unattainable utopia
- Cracks in the foundation
- The smoke-filled rooms
- Through a glass darkly
ISBN
- 9780061241765
- 0061241768
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