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50 visions of mathematics
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
2014.
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First Edition.
What's the problem with mathematics? / David Acheson
The mathematics of messages / Alan J. Aw
Decathlon: The art of scoring points / John D. Barrow
Queen Dido and the mathematics of the extreme / Greg Bason
Can strings tie things together? / David Berman
Dimples, grooves, and knuckleballs / Ken Bray
Pigs didn't fly but swine flu / Ellen Brooks-Pollock and Ken Eames
Bill Tutte: Unsung Bletchley hero / Chris Budd
What's the use of a quadratic equation? / Chris Budd and Chris Sangwin
Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme / Alan Champneys
The mathematics of obesity / Carson C. Chow
It's a small world really / Tony Crilly
How does mathematics help at a murder scene? / Graham Divall
Mathematics: The language of the universe / Marcus Du Sautoy
The troublesome geometry of CAT scanning / Richard Elwes
The mathematics of sports gambling / Alistair Fitt
A conversation with Freeman Dyson / Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas /
A glass of bubbly / Paul Glendinning
The influenza virus: It's all in the packaging / Julia Gog
Solving the Bristol bridge problem / Thilo Gross
All ravens are black: Puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics / David Hand
The tower of Hanoi: Where mathematics meets psychology / Andreas M. Hinz and Marianne Freiberger
Career: A sample path / Philip Holmes
Sweets in the jar / Steve Humble
Mary Cartwright / Lisa Jardine
The fallibility of mathematics / Adam Jasko
Anecdotes of Dr Barrow / Tom Korner
Finding Apollo / Adam Kucharski
The golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics / Mario Livio
The high-power hypar / Peter Lynch
This is not a carrot: Paraconsistent mathematics / Maarten McKubre-Jordens
The mystery of Groombridge Place / Alexander Masters and Simon Norton
Mathematics at the movies: Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty / Derek E. Moulton and Alain Goriely
The mysterious number 6174 / Yutaka Nishiyama
Percolating possibilities / Colva Roney-Dougal and Vince Vatter
Milestones on a non-Euclidean journey / Caroline Series
Simpson's rule
Simon Singh
Risking your life / David Spiegelhalter
Networks and illusions / Ian Stewart
Emmy Noether: Against the odds / Danielle Stretch
Of catastrophes and creodes / Paul Taylor
Conic section hide and seek / Rachel Thomas
Sir James Lighthill: A life in waves / Ahmer Wadee
Fail safe or fail dangerous? / Ahmer Wadee and Alan Champneys
Leapfrogging into the future / Paul Williams
Motorway mechanics / Eddie Wilson
The philosophy of applied mathematics / Phil Wilson
Mighty morphogenesis / Thomas Woolley
Called to the barcode / Andrew Wrigley
Roughly fifty-fifty? / Gunter M. Ziegler.
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Parc, Sam editor
ISBN
9780198701811
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