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100 1 _aBurger, Edward B.,
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245 1 0 _aCoincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz :
_bmaking light of weighty ideas /
_cEdward B. Burger, Michael Starbird ; original illustrations by Alan Witschonke.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton,
_cc2005.
300 _aix, 276 p. :
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336 _2rdacontent
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337 _2rdamedia
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aUnderstanding 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.
650 0 _aMathematics
_vHumor.
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700 1 _aStarbird, Michael P.
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