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020			_a0393059456 (hardcover)
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050	0	0	_aQA99 _b.B87 2005
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100	1		_aBurger, Edward B., _d1963-
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. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
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.
700	1		_aStarbird, Michael P.
856	4	1	_zTable of contents _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005011106.html
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