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02173cam a22003374a 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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2005011106 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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DLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20190729103014.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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050421s2005 nyua b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2005011106 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0393059456 (hardcover) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
EY8Z |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
QA99 |
| Item number |
.B87 2005 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
510 |
| Edition number |
22 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Burger, Edward B., |
| Dates associated with a name |
1963- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz : |
| Remainder of title |
making light of weighty ideas / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird ; original illustrations by Alan Witschonke. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
W.W. Norton, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c2005. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
ix, 276 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Understanding 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. |
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1 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Mathematics |
| Form subdivision |
Humor. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Starbird, Michael P. |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Public note |
Table of contents |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005011106.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005011106.html</a> |
| 948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN) |
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| Series part designator, SPT (RLIN) |
u175993 |
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EY8Z |
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33039000759323 |
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9968 |