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050 0 0 _aQA93
_b.D285 2020
100 1 _aDarling, David J.
245 1 0 _aWeirdest maths :
_bat the frontiers of reason /
_cDavid Darling & Agnijo Banerjee.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bOneworld Publications,
_c2020.
264 4 _c©2020.
300 _axi, 243 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c20 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntro -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Genius -- Chapter 2 Sporting Chance -- Chapter 3 For Your Eyes Only -- Chapter 4 Fantasia Mathematica -- Chapter 5 In Beauty Lies Truth? -- Chapter 6 The Shape of Space -- Chapter 7 Life by Numbers -- Chapter 8 Stats Weird -- Chapter 9 Easier Said Than Done -- Chapter 10 Anything You Can Do... -- Chapter 11 Logic: Formal, Fallacious, and Fuzzy -- Chapter 12 Is Everything Mathematical? -- Chapter 13 The Next Fifty Years -- Acknowledgements
520 _aMaths is everywhere, in everything. It's in the finest margins of modern sport. It's in the electrical pulses of our hearts and the flight of every bird. It is our key to secret messages, lost languages and perhaps even the shape of the universe of itself. David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee reveal the mathematics at the farthest reaches of our world ' from its role in the plots of novels to how animals employ numerical skills to survive. Along the way they explore what makes a genius, why a seemingly simple problem can confound the best and brightest for decades, and what might be the great discovery of the twenty-first century. As Bertrand Russell once said, 'mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty'. Banerjee and Darling make sure we see it right again.
650 0 _aMathematics
_vPopular works.
_94226
700 1 _aBanerjee, Agnijo,
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