00865nam a2200253 i 450099100026864970753620020527111156.0010810s1975 us ||| | eng 0837181275b10054005-39ule_instPARLA218544ExLDip.to Filosofiaita194Winwar, Frances192091Jean-Jacques Rousseau :conscience of an era /Frances WinwarWestport :Greenwood press,1975366 p. ;22 cm.Rousseau, Jean Jacques.b1005400521-09-0627-06-02991000268649707536LE005 MF 23 A 241LE005A-8801le005-E0.00-l- 00000.i1006225727-06-02Jean-Jacques Rousseau193559UNISALENTOle00501-01-01ma -engus 0104327nam 22005895 450 991078113260332120200630132617.01-282-98275-397866129827503-642-04833-110.1007/978-3-642-04833-3(CKB)2550000000020029(EBL)646123(OCoLC)681900080(SSID)ssj0000449454(PQKBManifestationID)11924027(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000449454(PQKBWorkID)10429388(PQKB)10458496(DE-He213)978-3-642-04833-3(MiAaPQ)EBC646123(PPN)149030290(EXLCZ)99255000000002002920101029d2010 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFiguring It Out[electronic resource] Entertaining Encounters with Everyday Math /by Nuno Crato1st ed. 2010.Berlin, Heidelberg :Springer Berlin Heidelberg :Imprint: Copernicus,2010.1 online resource (212 p.)Original Portuguese edition: A matemática das coisas ; Lisboa, Portugal : Gradiva Publicações lda., 2008.3-642-04832-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Everyday Matters -- The Dinner Table Algorithm -- Cutting the Christmas Cake -- Oranges and Computers -- When Two and Two Don’t Make Four -- Getting More Intelligent Every Day -- The Other Lane Always Goes Faster -- Shoelaces and Neckties -- Number Puzzles -- Tossing a Coin -- The Switch -- Eubulides, The Heap and The Euro -- The Earth is Round -- How GPS Works -- Gear Wheels -- February 29 -- The Nonius Scale -- Pedro Nunes’ Map -- Lighthouse Geometry -- Asteroids and Least Squares -- The Useful Man and the Genius -- Secret Affairs -- Alice and Bob1 -- Inviolate Cybersecrets -- Quantum Cryptography -- The FBI Wavelet -- The Enigma Machine -- Art and Geometry -- The Vitruvian Man -- The Golden Number -- The Geometry of A4 Paper Sizes -- The Strange Worlds of Escher -- Escher and the Möbius Strip -- Picasso, Einstein and the Fourth Dimension -- Pollock’s Fractals -- Voronoi Diagrams -- The Platonic Solids -- Pythagorean Mosquitoes -- The Most Beautiful of All -- Mathematical Objects -- The Power of Math -- Doubts in the Realm of Certainty -- When Chance Enhances Reliability -- The Difficulty of Chance -- Conjectures and Proofs -- Mr. Benford -- Financial Fractals -- Turing’s Test -- DNA Computers -- Magical Multiplication -- ? Day -- The Best Job in the World -- Out of this World -- Electoral Paradoxes -- The Melon Paradox -- The Cupcake Paradox -- Infinity -- Unfair Games -- Monsieur Bertrand -- Boy or Girl? -- A Puzzle for Christmas -- Crisis Time for Easter Eggs.This is a book of mathematical stories — funny and puzzling mathematical stories. They tell of villains who try to steal secrets, heroes who encode their messages, and mathematicians who spend years on end searching for the best way to pile oranges. There are also stories about highway confusions occurring when the rules of Cartesian geometry are ignored, small-change errors due to ignorance of ancient paradoxes, and mistakes in calendars arising from poor numerical approximations. This book is about the power and beauty of mathematics. It shows mathematics in action, explained in a way that everybody can understand. It is a book for enticing youngsters and inspiring teachers. Nuno Crato is a leading science writer and mathematician, whose entertaining essays have won a number of international awards.MathematicsPopular worksMathematics, generalhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M00009Popular Science, generalhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q00007Mathematics.Popular works.Mathematics, general.Popular Science, general.510.02Crato Nunoauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1333754BOOK9910781132603321Figuring It Out3673635UNINA