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How does mathematics enable us to send pictures from space back to Earth? Where does the bell-shaped curve come from? Why do you need only 23 people in a room for a 50/50 chance of two of them sharing the same birthday? In Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, and Other Mathematical Explorations, Keith...

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Autor principal: Ball, Keith (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]
Edición:Course Book
Temas:
Mathematics > Miscellanea.
Mathematics > Popular works.
MATHEMATICS / Recreations & Games.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter one. Shannon's Free Lunch
  • Chapter Two. Counting Dots
  • Chapter Three. Fermat's Little Theorem and Infinite Decimals
  • Chapter Four. Strange Curves
  • Chapter Five. Shared Birthdays, Normal Bells
  • Chapter Six. Stirling Works
  • Chapter Seven. Spare Change, Pools of Blood
  • Chapter Eight. Fibonacci's Rabbits Revisited
  • Chapter Nine. Chasing the Curve
  • Chapter Ten. Rational and Irrational
  • Index

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