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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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AASRI procedia
| AASRI procedia |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Amsterdam], : Elsevier, ©2012- |
| Soggetto topico |
Science
Engineering Mathematics Medicine Technology Linguistics Architecture Sciences Ingénierie Mathématiques Médecine Technologie Linguistique |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Conference papers and proceedings.
Periodicals. |
| ISSN | 2212-6724 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910384444303321 |
| [Amsterdam], : Elsevier, ©2012- | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Abstracts of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society
| Abstracts of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Providence, R.I., : American Mathematical Society |
| Disciplina |
510.5
510/.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
Mathématiques Wiskunde |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Bibliographies.
Abstracts. Periodicals. |
| ISSN | 2689-4831 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910895620503321 |
| Providence, R.I., : American Mathematical Society | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Acta applicandae mathematicae
| Acta applicandae mathematicae |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht, : Kluwer Academic Publishers |
| Disciplina | 510 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
Mathématiques |
| ISSN | 1572-9036 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996218053203316 |
| Dordrecht, : Kluwer Academic Publishers | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Acta applicandae mathematicae
| Acta applicandae mathematicae |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht, : Kluwer Academic Publishers |
| Disciplina | 510 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
Mathématiques Mathematik |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Periodicals.
Zeitschrift Elektronische Publikation |
| ISSN | 1572-9036 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910145771603321 |
| Dordrecht, : Kluwer Academic Publishers | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Acta mathematica
| Acta mathematica |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Djursholm, Sweden], : Institut Mittag-Leffler, 1882- |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
Mathématiques Wiskunde Mathématique |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
periodicals.
Periodicals. Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme) Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme) Périodiques. |
| ISSN | 1871-2509 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | swe |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910133011803321 |
| [Djursholm, Sweden], : Institut Mittag-Leffler, 1882- | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Acta mathematica Hungarica
| Acta mathematica Hungarica |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Budapest : , : Akadémiai Kiadó, , 1983]- |
| Disciplina | 510 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
Mathématiques |
| ISSN | 1588-2632 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996207916303316 |
| [Budapest : , : Akadémiai Kiadó, , 1983]- | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Acta mathematica Hungarica
| Acta mathematica Hungarica |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Budapest] : , : [Akadémiai Kiadó], , [1983]- |
| Disciplina | 510 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
Mathématiques |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Periodicals. |
| ISSN | 1588-2632 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | Acta Math. Hung |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910142428503321 |
| [Budapest] : , : [Akadémiai Kiadó], , [1983]- | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Acta mathematicae applicatae Sinica
| Acta mathematicae applicatae Sinica |
| Edizione | [English series.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Beijing, China, : Science Press, 1984- |
| Disciplina | 510/.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
Mathématiques Matemàtica |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Periodicals.
Revistes electròniques. |
| ISSN | 1618-3932 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | Acta mathematicae applicatae Sinica, English series |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910131737203321 |
| Beijing, China, : Science Press, 1984- | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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