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50 visions of mathematics / / edited by Sam Parc ; [with a foreword by Dara O Briain]
| 50 visions of mathematics / / edited by Sam Parc ; [with a foreword by Dara O Briain] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (198 pages, 16 pages of plates) |
| Disciplina | 510 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | O BriainDara <1972-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
Mathématiques MATHEMATICS - Essays MATHEMATICS - Pre-Calculus MATHEMATICS - Reference Mathematik Unterhaltungsmathematik Angewandte Mathematik |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Popular works. |
| ISBN |
9780191005336
0191005339 1306980143 9781306980142 9780191005343 0191005347 9780198701811 0198701810 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; FOREWORD: A BAD MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY; Dara o Briain; PREFACE; CONTENTS; Plates; 1 What's the problem with mathematics?; David Acheson; 2 The mathematics of messages; Alan J. Aw; 3 Decathlon: The art of scoring points; John D. Barrow; 4 Queen Dido and the mathematics of the extreme; Greg Bason; 5 Can strings tie things together?; David Berman; 6 Dimples, grooves, and knuckleballs; Ken Bray; 7 Pigs didn't fly but swine flu; Ellen Brooks-Pollock and Ken Eames; 8 Bill Tutte: Unsung Bletchley hero; Chris Budd; 9 What's the use of a quadratic equation?; Chris Budd and Chris Sangwin.
10 Tony Hilton Royle SkyrmeAlan Champneys; 11 The mathematics of obesity; Carson C. Chow; 12 It's a small world really; Tony Crilly; 13 How does mathematics help at a murder scene?; Graham Divall; 14 Mathematics: The language of the universe; Marcus Du Sautoy; 15 The troublesome geometry of CAT scanning; Richard Elwes; 16 The mathematics of sports gambling; Alistair Fitt; PYTHAGORAS'S THEOREM: a2; Hommage © Queneau; 17 A conversation with Freeman Dyson; Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas; 18 A glass of bubbly; Paul Glendinning; 19 The influenza virus: It's allin the packaging; Julia Gog. 20 Solving the Bristol bridge problemThilo Gross; 21 All ravens are black: Puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics; David Hand; 22 The Tower of Hanoi: Where mathematics meets psychology; Andreas M. Hinz and Marianne Freiberger; 23 Career: A sample path; Philip Holmes; 24 Sweets in the jar; Steve Humble; 25 Mary Cartwright; Lisa Jardine; 26 The fallibility of mathematics; Adam Jasko; 27 Anecdotes of Dr Barrow; Tom K©œrner; 28 Finding Apollo; Adam Kucharski; 29 The golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics; Mario Livio; 30 The high-power hypar; Peter Lynch. 31 This is not a carrot: Paraconsistent mathematicsMaarten Mckubre-Jordens; 32 The mystery of Groombridge Place; Alexander Masters and Simon Norton; PYTHAGORAS'S THEOREM: b2; Hommage © Queneau; 33 Mathematicians at the movies: Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty; Derek E. Moulton and Alain Goriely; 34 The mysterious number 6174; Yutaka Nishiyama; 35 Percolating possibilities; Colva Roney-Dougal and Vince Vatter; 36 Milestones on a non-Euclidean journey; Caroline Series; 37 Simpson's rule; Simon Singh; 38 Risking your life; David Spiegelhalter; 39 Networks and illusions; Ian Stewart. 40 Emmy Noether: Against the oddsDanielle Stretch; 41 Of catastrophes and creodes; Paul Taylor; 42 Conic section hide and seek; Rachel Thomas; 43 Sir James Lighthill: A life in waves; Ahmer Wadee; 44 Fail safe or fail dangerous?; Ahmer Wadee and Alan Champneys; 45 Leapfrogging into the future: How child's play is at the heart of weather and climate models; Paul Williams; 46 Motorway mathematics; Eddie Wilson; 47 The philosophy of applied mathematics; Phil Wilson; 48 Mighty morphogenesis; Thomas Woolley; 49 Called to the barcode; Andrew Wrigley; 50 Roughly fifty-fifty?; Gunter M. Ziegler. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Fifty visions of mathematics |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786790103321 |
| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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50 visions of mathematics / / edited by Sam Parc ; [with a foreword by Dara O Briain]
| 50 visions of mathematics / / edited by Sam Parc ; [with a foreword by Dara O Briain] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (198 pages, 16 pages of plates) |
| Disciplina | 510 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | O BriainDara <1972-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
Mathématiques MATHEMATICS - Essays MATHEMATICS - Pre-Calculus MATHEMATICS - Reference Mathematik Unterhaltungsmathematik Angewandte Mathematik |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Popular works. |
| ISBN |
9780191005336
0191005339 1306980143 9781306980142 9780191005343 0191005347 9780198701811 0198701810 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; FOREWORD: A BAD MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY; Dara o Briain; PREFACE; CONTENTS; Plates; 1 What's the problem with mathematics?; David Acheson; 2 The mathematics of messages; Alan J. Aw; 3 Decathlon: The art of scoring points; John D. Barrow; 4 Queen Dido and the mathematics of the extreme; Greg Bason; 5 Can strings tie things together?; David Berman; 6 Dimples, grooves, and knuckleballs; Ken Bray; 7 Pigs didn't fly but swine flu; Ellen Brooks-Pollock and Ken Eames; 8 Bill Tutte: Unsung Bletchley hero; Chris Budd; 9 What's the use of a quadratic equation?; Chris Budd and Chris Sangwin.
10 Tony Hilton Royle SkyrmeAlan Champneys; 11 The mathematics of obesity; Carson C. Chow; 12 It's a small world really; Tony Crilly; 13 How does mathematics help at a murder scene?; Graham Divall; 14 Mathematics: The language of the universe; Marcus Du Sautoy; 15 The troublesome geometry of CAT scanning; Richard Elwes; 16 The mathematics of sports gambling; Alistair Fitt; PYTHAGORAS'S THEOREM: a2; Hommage © Queneau; 17 A conversation with Freeman Dyson; Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas; 18 A glass of bubbly; Paul Glendinning; 19 The influenza virus: It's allin the packaging; Julia Gog. 20 Solving the Bristol bridge problemThilo Gross; 21 All ravens are black: Puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics; David Hand; 22 The Tower of Hanoi: Where mathematics meets psychology; Andreas M. Hinz and Marianne Freiberger; 23 Career: A sample path; Philip Holmes; 24 Sweets in the jar; Steve Humble; 25 Mary Cartwright; Lisa Jardine; 26 The fallibility of mathematics; Adam Jasko; 27 Anecdotes of Dr Barrow; Tom K©œrner; 28 Finding Apollo; Adam Kucharski; 29 The golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics; Mario Livio; 30 The high-power hypar; Peter Lynch. 31 This is not a carrot: Paraconsistent mathematicsMaarten Mckubre-Jordens; 32 The mystery of Groombridge Place; Alexander Masters and Simon Norton; PYTHAGORAS'S THEOREM: b2; Hommage © Queneau; 33 Mathematicians at the movies: Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty; Derek E. Moulton and Alain Goriely; 34 The mysterious number 6174; Yutaka Nishiyama; 35 Percolating possibilities; Colva Roney-Dougal and Vince Vatter; 36 Milestones on a non-Euclidean journey; Caroline Series; 37 Simpson's rule; Simon Singh; 38 Risking your life; David Spiegelhalter; 39 Networks and illusions; Ian Stewart. 40 Emmy Noether: Against the oddsDanielle Stretch; 41 Of catastrophes and creodes; Paul Taylor; 42 Conic section hide and seek; Rachel Thomas; 43 Sir James Lighthill: A life in waves; Ahmer Wadee; 44 Fail safe or fail dangerous?; Ahmer Wadee and Alan Champneys; 45 Leapfrogging into the future: How child's play is at the heart of weather and climate models; Paul Williams; 46 Motorway mathematics; Eddie Wilson; 47 The philosophy of applied mathematics; Phil Wilson; 48 Mighty morphogenesis; Thomas Woolley; 49 Called to the barcode; Andrew Wrigley; 50 Roughly fifty-fifty?; Gunter M. Ziegler. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Fifty visions of mathematics |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828235803321 |
| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Grete Hermann - between physics and philosophy / / Elise Crull, Guido Bacciagaluppi, editors
| Grete Hermann - between physics and philosophy / / Elise Crull, Guido Bacciagaluppi, editors |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht, The Netherlands : , : Springer, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 281 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Disciplina | 193 |
| Collana | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematicians - Germany
Philosophers - Germany Physics - Philosophy History Ethics Modern philosophy Philosophy of nature Political philosophy History of Science Modern Philosophy Philosophy of Nature Political Philosophy Ethics & moral philosophy Western philosophy, from c 1900 Philosophy Social & political philosophy History of science MATHEMATICS - Essays MATHEMATICS - Pre-Calculus MATHEMATICS - Reference Mathematicians Philosophers |
| ISBN |
9789402409703
940240970X 9789402409680 9402409688 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ; Part I. Hermann’s Background -- ; 1. A Biographical Sketch of Prof. Dr Grete Henry-Hermann (1901 – 1984) / Inge Hansen-Schaberg -- ; 2. Grete Hermann as a Philosopher / Fernando Leal -- ; 3. Understanding Hermann’s Philosophy of Nature / Giulia Paparo -- ; Part II. Hermann on Quantum Mechanics -- ; 4. The Convergence of Transcendental Philosophy and Quantum Physics: Grete Henry-Hermann’s 1935 Pioneering Proposal / Léna Soler -- ; 5. Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker’s ‘Ortsbestimmung eines Elektrons’ and its Influence on Grete Hermann / Thomas Filk -- ; 6. ‘In the No-Man’s-Land Between Physics and Logic’ : On the Dialectical Role of the Microscope Experiment / Mélanie Frappier -- ; 7. Challenging the Gospel: Grete Hermann on von Neumann’s No-Hidden-Variables Proof / Michiel Seevinck -- ; 8. Grete Hermann’s Lost Manuscript on Quantum Mechanics / Elise Crull and Guido Bacciagaluppi -- ; 9. Bohr’s Slit and Hermann’s Microscope / Guido Bacciagaluppi -- ; 10. Hermann and the Relative Context of Observation / Elise Crull -- ; Part III. Discussions at the Hermann Workshop -- ; 11. Panel Discussion / Dieter Krohn, Rene Saran and Fernando Leal -- ; 12. General Discussion -- ; Part IV. Translations -- ; 13. Letter from G. Heckmann to G. Hermann, 17 December 1933 / Gustav Heckmann -- ; 14. Determinism and Quantum Mechanics / Grete Hermann -- ; 15. Natural-Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics / Grete Hermann. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910254777003321 |
| Dordrecht, The Netherlands : , : Springer, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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