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Foolproof, and other mathematical meditations /
A non-mathematician explores mathematical terrain, reporting accessibly and engagingly on topics from Sudoku to probability. Brian Hayes wants to convince us that mathematics is too important and too much fun to be left to the mathematicians. Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations is his ente...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
The MIT Press,
2017
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; 1 Young Gauss Sums It Up; 2 Outside the Law of Averages; 3 How to Avoid Yourself; 4 The Spectrum of Riemannium; 5 Unwed Numbers; 6 Crinkly Curves; 7 Wagering with Zeno; 8 The Higher Arithmetic; 9 First Links in the Markov Chain; 10 Playing Ball in the nth Dimension; 11 Quasirandom Ramblings; 12 Pencil, Paper, and Pi; 13 Foolproof; Sources and Resources; References; Index