[Mobile ebook] Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, & Other Mathematical Explorations
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| #2047163 in Books | Princeton University Press | 2003-11-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .90 x6.54 x9.22l,1.22 | File Name: 0691113211 | 272 pages |
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Stretches your mathematical imagination|By Kent|Professor Ball poses some interesting mathematical puzzles and solves them in interesting ways, with clear explanations throughout. If you don't like puzzles, it probably won't change your mind. If you're already a puzzle-solving ace, you might find the style too casual. But it's a great book for stretching your mathematical musc||| One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004|
"Keith Ball demonstrated that though math may not be laugh-out-loud hilarious, it is deeply and gloriously satisfying. . . . Ball's style is pacy and informal, and he does far mo
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 Ball highlights how ideas, mostly from pure math, can answer these questions and many more. Drawing on areas of mathematics from probability theory, number the...
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