TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burger,Edward B.
AU  - Starbird,Michael P.
TI  - Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz: making light of weighty ideas 
SN  - 0393059456 (hardcover)
AV  - QA99 .B87 2005
U1  - 510 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Humor
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005011106.html
ER  -