Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos, and Other Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics
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Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos, and Other Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics
EN USISBN: 0471322334 bzw. 9780471322337, in Englisch, Wiley, gebraucht.
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20th century,applied,business and finance,business and investing,education and reference,history,humanities,humor and entertainment,math,math games, Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos and Other Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics, Bring more joy to your favorite math-head with Five More Golden Rules from science writer and national treasure John L. Casti. Though a quick glance through the book will cause an intense fight-or-flight response in the numerophobic, Casti's writing is lovely and lucid as ever, explaining not just equations and theorems but their significance in our lives. Having discovered in Five Golden Rules that he couldn't restrict himself to just five important 20th-century mathematical theories, this follow-up explores the intricacies of knot theory, functional analysis, control theory, chaotic systems, and information theory. Each of the five lively chapters introduces its subject with a seemingly unrelated anecdote that is (of course) informed by the theory in question. Then it's headlong into the wonderful details of postulation and demonstration that make math so much fun. Unlike a textbook, Five More Golden Rules meanders and breaks away from its proofs to discover relations between the symbols and the real world, from the stock market to the coastline of Norway. Besides giving the reader a break, this makes the abstract, almost ethereal concepts concrete and provides a definite advantage to the interested student. Perhaps textbook publishers should take note of this technique; until they do, we'll have to curl up with Casti's Five More Golden Rules if we want to have fun with our higher math. --Rob Lightner.
20th century,applied,business and finance,business and investing,education and reference,history,humanities,humor and entertainment,math,math games, Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos and Other Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics, Bring more joy to your favorite math-head with Five More Golden Rules from science writer and national treasure John L. Casti. Though a quick glance through the book will cause an intense fight-or-flight response in the numerophobic, Casti's writing is lovely and lucid as ever, explaining not just equations and theorems but their significance in our lives. Having discovered in Five Golden Rules that he couldn't restrict himself to just five important 20th-century mathematical theories, this follow-up explores the intricacies of knot theory, functional analysis, control theory, chaotic systems, and information theory. Each of the five lively chapters introduces its subject with a seemingly unrelated anecdote that is (of course) informed by the theory in question. Then it's headlong into the wonderful details of postulation and demonstration that make math so much fun. Unlike a textbook, Five More Golden Rules meanders and breaks away from its proofs to discover relations between the symbols and the real world, from the stock market to the coastline of Norway. Besides giving the reader a break, this makes the abstract, almost ethereal concepts concrete and provides a definite advantage to the interested student. Perhaps textbook publishers should take note of this technique; until they do, we'll have to curl up with Casti's Five More Golden Rules if we want to have fun with our higher math. --Rob Lightner.
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Five More Golden Rules (2000)
EN HC NWISBN: 9780471322337 bzw. 0471322334, in Englisch, Wiley John + Sons, gebundenes Buch, neu.
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Mathematik - spannend und lebendig! Anknüpfend an sein erfolgreiches Werk ´´Five Golden Rules´´ erzählt der Populärwissenschaftler John Casti hier die Geschichte von fünf weiteren bahnbrechenden mathematischen Entdeckungen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dem Leser werden zum Beispiel die Zusammenhänge zwischen der Knotentheorie und der klassischen Legende von Alexander dem Grossen und dem Gordischen Knoten erläutert, und er erfährt, wie die Shannon-Codierungstheorie bei der Entschlüsselung des mensc, Critical Praise for Five Golden Rules ´´Five Golden Rules is caviar for the inquiring reader. . Casti´s gift is to be able to let the nonmathematical reader share in his understanding of the beauty of a good theory.´´ -Christian Science Monitor ´´Casti is One of the great science writers of the 1990s. His new book ranges into exotic fields such as game theory (which played a role in the Cuban Missile Crisis) and topology (which explains how to turn a doughnut into a coffee cup, or vice versa). If you´d like to have fun while giving your brain a first-class workout, then check this book out.´´ -San Francisco Examiner ´´I urge every reader of New Scientist to get this book.´´ -New Scientist ´´This book has meat! It is solid fare, food for thought. . Casti´s Five Golden Rules makes math less forbidding and much more interesting.´´ -Hartford Courant ´´With this volume, Casti has done more than his share of the professional duty of mathematicians. It is one more brick to be used in the construction of a mathematics that is cherished by all people.´´ -Journal of Recreational Mathematics ´´An excellent exposition of five of the most interesting mathematical theories of the twentieth century that are still undergoing significant study.´´ -Library Journal, gebundene Ausgabe, 20.03.2000.
Mathematik - spannend und lebendig! Anknüpfend an sein erfolgreiches Werk ´´Five Golden Rules´´ erzählt der Populärwissenschaftler John Casti hier die Geschichte von fünf weiteren bahnbrechenden mathematischen Entdeckungen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dem Leser werden zum Beispiel die Zusammenhänge zwischen der Knotentheorie und der klassischen Legende von Alexander dem Grossen und dem Gordischen Knoten erläutert, und er erfährt, wie die Shannon-Codierungstheorie bei der Entschlüsselung des mensc, Critical Praise for Five Golden Rules ´´Five Golden Rules is caviar for the inquiring reader. . Casti´s gift is to be able to let the nonmathematical reader share in his understanding of the beauty of a good theory.´´ -Christian Science Monitor ´´Casti is One of the great science writers of the 1990s. His new book ranges into exotic fields such as game theory (which played a role in the Cuban Missile Crisis) and topology (which explains how to turn a doughnut into a coffee cup, or vice versa). If you´d like to have fun while giving your brain a first-class workout, then check this book out.´´ -San Francisco Examiner ´´I urge every reader of New Scientist to get this book.´´ -New Scientist ´´This book has meat! It is solid fare, food for thought. . Casti´s Five Golden Rules makes math less forbidding and much more interesting.´´ -Hartford Courant ´´With this volume, Casti has done more than his share of the professional duty of mathematicians. It is one more brick to be used in the construction of a mathematics that is cherished by all people.´´ -Journal of Recreational Mathematics ´´An excellent exposition of five of the most interesting mathematical theories of the twentieth century that are still undergoing significant study.´´ -Library Journal, gebundene Ausgabe, 20.03.2000.
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Five More Golden Rules
EN NWISBN: 9780471322337 bzw. 0471322334, in Englisch, Wiley, United States of America, neu.
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Mathematik - spannend und lebendig! Anknüpfend an sein erfolgreiches Werk "Five Golden Rules" erzählt der Populärwissenschaftler John Casti hier die Geschichte von fünf weiteren bahnbrechenden mathematischen Entdeckungen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dem Leser werden zum Beispiel die Zusammenhänge zwischen der Knotentheorie und der klassischen Legende von Alexander dem Grossen und dem Gordischen Knoten erläutert, und er erfährt, wie die Shannon-Codierungstheorie bei der Entschlüsselung des mensc, Critical Praise for Five Golden Rules "Five Golden Rules is caviar for the inquiring reader. . Casti's gift is to be able to let the nonmathematical reader share in his understanding of the beauty of a good theory." -Christian Science Monitor "Casti is One of the great science writers of the 1990s. His new book ranges into exotic fields such as game theory (which played a role in the Cuban Missile Crisis) and topology (which explains how to turn a doughnut into a coffee cup, or vice versa). If you'd like to have fun while giving your brain a first-class workout, then check this book out." -San Francisco Examiner "I urge every reader of New Scientist to get this book." -New Scientist "This book has meat! It is solid fare, food for thought. . Casti's Five Golden Rules makes math less forbidding and much more interesting." -Hartford Courant "With this volume, Casti has done more than his share of the professional duty of mathematicians. It is one more brick to be used in the construction of a mathematics that is cherished by all people." -Journal of Recreational Mathematics "An excellent exposition of five of the most interesting mathematical theories of the twentieth century that are still undergoing significant study." -Library Journal.
Mathematik - spannend und lebendig! Anknüpfend an sein erfolgreiches Werk "Five Golden Rules" erzählt der Populärwissenschaftler John Casti hier die Geschichte von fünf weiteren bahnbrechenden mathematischen Entdeckungen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dem Leser werden zum Beispiel die Zusammenhänge zwischen der Knotentheorie und der klassischen Legende von Alexander dem Grossen und dem Gordischen Knoten erläutert, und er erfährt, wie die Shannon-Codierungstheorie bei der Entschlüsselung des mensc, Critical Praise for Five Golden Rules "Five Golden Rules is caviar for the inquiring reader. . Casti's gift is to be able to let the nonmathematical reader share in his understanding of the beauty of a good theory." -Christian Science Monitor "Casti is One of the great science writers of the 1990s. His new book ranges into exotic fields such as game theory (which played a role in the Cuban Missile Crisis) and topology (which explains how to turn a doughnut into a coffee cup, or vice versa). If you'd like to have fun while giving your brain a first-class workout, then check this book out." -San Francisco Examiner "I urge every reader of New Scientist to get this book." -New Scientist "This book has meat! It is solid fare, food for thought. . Casti's Five Golden Rules makes math less forbidding and much more interesting." -Hartford Courant "With this volume, Casti has done more than his share of the professional duty of mathematicians. It is one more brick to be used in the construction of a mathematics that is cherished by all people." -Journal of Recreational Mathematics "An excellent exposition of five of the most interesting mathematical theories of the twentieth century that are still undergoing significant study." -Library Journal.
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Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos, and Other Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics
EN HC NWISBN: 9780471322337 bzw. 0471322334, in Englisch, Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, gebundenes Buch, neu.
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Five-More-Golden-Rules~~John-L-Casti, Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos, and Other Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics, Hardcover.
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