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- catalog abstract ""Mathematics is, Ian Stewart admits, totally unreal - an entirely mental construct. Furthermore, the complicated equations and lengthy proofs we usually identify as math are no more the essence of math than a musical score is a Beethoven symphony. Yet math is the best tool we have for understanding the world around us. By looking at the universe through mathematical eyes, we have discovered a great secret: nature's patterns are clues to the deep regularities that govern the way the world works." "Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence. It can look at a single snowflake and deduce the atomic structure of ice crystals; it can start with a violin string and uncover the existence of radio waves. And mathematics still has the power to open our eyes to new and unsuspected regularities: the secret structure of a cloud or the hidden rhythms of the weather." "Nature's Numbers will equip you with a mathematician's eyes. It will take you sight-seeing in a mathematical universe. And it will change the way you view your own world."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b8406526.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description ""Mathematics is, Ian Stewart admits, totally unreal - an entirely mental construct. Furthermore, the complicated equations and lengthy proofs we usually identify as math are no more the essence of math than a musical score is a Beethoven symphony. Yet math is the best tool we have for understanding the world around us. By looking at the universe through mathematical eyes, we have discovered a great secret: nature's patterns are clues to the deep regularities that govern the way the world works." "Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence. It can look at a single snowflake and deduce the atomic structure of ice crystals; it can start with a violin string and uncover the existence of radio waves. And mathematics still has the power to open our eyes to new and unsuspected regularities: the secret structure of a cloud or the hidden rhythms of the weather." "Nature's Numbers will equip you with a mathematician's eyes. It will take you sight-seeing in a mathematical universe. And it will change the way you view your own world."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-154) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: the virtual unreality machine (p.vii) -- 1. The natural order (p.1) -- 2. What mathematics is for (p.13) -- 3. What mathematics is about (p.31) -- 4. The constants of change (p.47) -- 5. From violins to videos (p.61) -- 6. Broken symmetry (p.73) -- 7. The rhythm of life (p.93) -- 8. Do dice play God? (p.107) -- 9. Drops, dynamics, and daisies (p.127) -- Epilogue: morphomatics (p.145) -- Further reading (p.151) -- Index (p.155).".
- catalog extent "x, 164 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Nature's numbers.".
- catalog identifier "0465072739".
- catalog isFormatOf "Nature's numbers.".
- catalog isPartOf "Science masters series".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : BasicBooks,".
- catalog relation "Nature's numbers.".
- catalog subject "510 20".
- catalog subject "Mathematics Popular works.".
- catalog subject "QA93 .S737 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: the virtual unreality machine (p.vii) -- 1. The natural order (p.1) -- 2. What mathematics is for (p.13) -- 3. What mathematics is about (p.31) -- 4. The constants of change (p.47) -- 5. From violins to videos (p.61) -- 6. Broken symmetry (p.73) -- 7. The rhythm of life (p.93) -- 8. Do dice play God? (p.107) -- 9. Drops, dynamics, and daisies (p.127) -- Epilogue: morphomatics (p.145) -- Further reading (p.151) -- Index (p.155).".
- catalog title "Nature's numbers : the unreal reality of mathematical imagination / Ian Stewart.".
- catalog type "Popular works. fast".
- catalog type "text".