50 Visions of Mathematics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 May 2014
- ISBN 9780198701811
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages226 pages
- Size 254x195x18 mm
- Weight 698 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 79 b/w illustrations and 50 colour images 0
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Short description:
Relax: no one understands technical mathematics without lengthy training but we all have an intuitive grasp of the ideas behind the symbols. This book is designed to showcase the beauty of mathematics - including images inspired by mathematical problems - together with its unreasonable effectiveness and applicability, without frying your brain.
MoreLong description:
Relax: no one understands technical mathematics without lengthy training but we all have an intuitive grasp of the ideas behind the symbols. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), this book is designed to showcase the beauty of mathematics - including images inspired by mathematical problems - together with its unreasonable effectiveness and applicability, without frying your brain.
The book is a collection of 50 original essays contributed by a wide variety of authors. It contains articles by some of the best expositors of the subject (du Sautoy, Singh and Stewart for example) together with entertaining biographical pieces and articles of relevance to our everyday lives (such as Spiegelhalter on risk and Elwes on medical imaging). The topics covered are deliberately diverse and involve concepts from simple numerology to the very cutting edge of mathematics research. Each article is designed to be read in one sitting and to be accessible to a general audience.
There is also other content. There are 50 pictorial 'visions of mathematics' which were supplied in response to an open call for contributions from IMA members, Plus readers and the worldwide mathematics community. You'll also find a series of "proofs " of Phythagoras's Theorem - mathematical, literary and comedy - after this, you'll never think of Pythagoras the same way again.
Motorways; Sherlock Holmes; networks; mysterious numbers; sweets; champagne; interviews; mathematical poetry; ravens and even The Simpsons - this book has them all and more! Don't miss it!
Table of Contents:
What's the problem with mathematics?
The mathematics of messages
Decathlon: The art of scoring points
Queen Dido and the mathematics of the extreme
Can strings tie things together?
Grooves and knuckleballs
Pigs didn't fly but swine flu
Bill Tutte: Unsung Bletchley hero
What's the use of a quadratic equation?
Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme
The mathematics of obesity
It's a small world really
How does mathematics help at a murder scene?
Mathematics: The language of the universe
The troublesome geometry of CAT scanning
The mathematics of sports gambling
Pythagoras's Theorem: a2
A conversation with Freeman Dyson
A glass of bubbly
The influenza virus: It's all in the packaging
Mathematicians at the movies: Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty
Solving the Bristol bridge problem
All ravens are black: Puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics
The Tower of Hanoi: Where mathematics meets psychology
Career: A sample path
Sweets in the jar
Mary Cartwright
The fallibility of mathematics
Anecdotes of Dr Barrow
Finding Apollo
The golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics
The high-power hypar
This is not a carrot: Paraconsistent mathematics
The mystery of Groombridge Place
Pythagoras's Theorem: b2
Mysterious number 6174
Percolating possibilities
Milestones on a non-Euclidean journey
Simpson's rule
Risking your life
Networks and illusions
Emmy Noether: Against the odds
Of catastrophes and creodes: How maths benefits from collaboration with other fields
Conic section hide and seek
Sir James Lighthill: A life in waves
Fail safe or fail dangerous
Leapfrogging into the future: How child's play is at the heart of weather and climate models
Motorway mathematics
The philosophy of applied mathematics
Mighty Morphogenesis
Called to the barcode
Roughly fifty-fifty?
Pythagoras's Theorem: c2
