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Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz : making light of weighty ideas, Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird ; original art by Alan Witschonke Illustration
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The item Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz : making light of weighty ideas, Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird ; original art by Alan Witschonke Illustration represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Memorial Hall Library.
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- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- ix, 276 pages
- Contents
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- Understanding uncertainty : coincidences, chaos, and confusion
- Unbridled coincidences : likelihood, lady luck, and lady love
- Chaos reigns : why we can't predict the future
- Digesting life's data : statistical surprises
- Embracing figures: sensing secrecy, magnificent magnitudes, and nature's numbers
- Secrets held, secrets revealed : cryptography decrypted
- Sizing up numbers : how many? how big? how quick?
- A synergy between nature and number : a search for pattern
- Exploring aesthetics: sexy rectangles, fiery fractals, and contortions of space
- From precise beauty to pure chaos: picturing aesthetics through the lens of mathematics
- Origami for the origamically challenged: from paper folding to computers and fiery fractals
- A twisted turn in an amorphous universe: an exploration of an elasticized world
- Transcending reality: the fourth dimension and infinity
- The universe next door: the magic of the fourth dimension
- Moving beyond the confines of our nutshell: a journey into infinity
- In search of something still larger: a journey beyond infinity
- Isbn
- 9780393059458
- Label
- Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz : making light of weighty ideas
- Title
- Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz
- Title remainder
- making light of weighty ideas
- Statement of responsibility
- Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird ; original art by Alan Witschonke Illustration
- Language
- eng
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1963-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Burger, Edward B.
- Dewey number
- 510
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QA99
- LC item number
- .B87 2006
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Starbird, Michael
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Mathematics
- Label
- Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz : making light of weighty ideas, Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird ; original art by Alan Witschonke Illustration
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]) and index
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Understanding uncertainty : coincidences, chaos, and confusion -- Unbridled coincidences : likelihood, lady luck, and lady love -- Chaos reigns : why we can't predict the future -- Digesting life's data : statistical surprises -- Embracing figures: sensing secrecy, magnificent magnitudes, and nature's numbers -- Secrets held, secrets revealed : cryptography decrypted -- Sizing up numbers : how many? how big? how quick? -- A synergy between nature and number : a search for pattern -- Exploring aesthetics: sexy rectangles, fiery fractals, and contortions of space -- From precise beauty to pure chaos: picturing aesthetics through the lens of mathematics -- Origami for the origamically challenged: from paper folding to computers and fiery fractals -- A twisted turn in an amorphous universe: an exploration of an elasticized world -- Transcending reality: the fourth dimension and infinity -- The universe next door: the magic of the fourth dimension -- Moving beyond the confines of our nutshell: a journey into infinity -- In search of something still larger: a journey beyond infinity
- Control code
- 960121
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- ix, 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393059458
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2005011106
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 960121
- (OCoLC)60245869
- Label
- Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz : making light of weighty ideas, Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird ; original art by Alan Witschonke Illustration
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Understanding uncertainty : coincidences, chaos, and confusion -- Unbridled coincidences : likelihood, lady luck, and lady love -- Chaos reigns : why we can't predict the future -- Digesting life's data : statistical surprises -- Embracing figures: sensing secrecy, magnificent magnitudes, and nature's numbers -- Secrets held, secrets revealed : cryptography decrypted -- Sizing up numbers : how many? how big? how quick? -- A synergy between nature and number : a search for pattern -- Exploring aesthetics: sexy rectangles, fiery fractals, and contortions of space -- From precise beauty to pure chaos: picturing aesthetics through the lens of mathematics -- Origami for the origamically challenged: from paper folding to computers and fiery fractals -- A twisted turn in an amorphous universe: an exploration of an elasticized world -- Transcending reality: the fourth dimension and infinity -- The universe next door: the magic of the fourth dimension -- Moving beyond the confines of our nutshell: a journey into infinity -- In search of something still larger: a journey beyond infinity
- Control code
- 960121
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- ix, 276 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393059458
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2005011106
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 960121
- (OCoLC)60245869
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