How math explains the world : a guide to the power of numbers, from car repair to modern physics
(2008)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
510/STEIN,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : HarperCollins : Smithsonian Books, [2008]
©2008
©2008
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xxi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780061241765, 0061241768, 0061241768 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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