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Figuring it out : entertaining encounters with everyday math /

This is a book of mathematical stories, funny and puzzling mathematical stories. They tell of villains who try to steal secrets, heroes who encode their messages, and mathematicians who spend years on end searching for the best way to pile oranges. There are also stories about highway confusions occ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crato, Nuno
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Portugués
Publicado: Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Everyday Matters. -- The dinner table algorithm -- Cutting the Christmas cake -- Oranges and computers -- When two and two don't make four -- Getting more intelligent every day -- The other lane always goes faster -- Shoelaces and neckties -- Number puzzles -- Tossing a coin -- The switch -- Eubulides, the heap and the Euro -- The Earth is Round. -- How GPS works -- Gear wheels -- February 29 -- The Nonius scale -- Pedro Nunes' map -- Lighthouse geometry -- Asteroids and least squares -- The useful man and the genius -- Secret Affairs. -- Alice and Bob -- Inviolate cybersecrets -- Quantum cryptography -- The FBI wavelet -- The enigma machine -- Art and Geometry. -- The Vitruvian man -- The golden number -- The geometry of A4 paper sizes -- The strange worlds of Escher -- Escher and the Möbius strip -- Picasso, Einstein and the fourth dimension -- Pollock's fractals -- Voronoi diagrams -- The Platonic solids -- Pythagorean mosquitoes -- The most beautiful of all -- Mathematical Objects. -- The power of math -- Doubts in the realm of certainty -- When chance enhances reliability -- The difficulty of chance -- Conjectures and proofs -- Mr. Benford -- Financial fractals -- Turing's test -- DNA computers -- Magical multiplication -- Pi day -- The best job in the world -- Out of This World. -- Electoral paradoxes -- The melon paradox -- The cupcake paradox -- Infinity -- Unfair games -- Monsieur Bertrand -- Boy or girl? -- A puzzle for Christmas -- Crisis time for Easter eggs. 
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