Math Stuff

Theoni Pappas 

 Wide World Publishing, Tetra | 2002 | 225 páginas | rar - pdf | 6,7 Mb

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Whether one is adjusting the settings of a camera, doing financial planning, or just talking about the weather, everyone is involved in mathematics every day. Theoni Pappas explores some of the many areas in which one least expects to find "math stuff." Readers learn how computers get stressed out, how epaper works, and how codes and numbers affect the body.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction ix
The pea counts 2
mathematics behind your genes
The mathematics of peace 12
The millennium clock 16
Chaos theory 21
Cricket math 26
Mathematical private eyes 27
ratios hold the clues
Holyhedrons 30
Fractals, fractals everywhere 32
Smart dust, MEMS 40
What’s it all about?
Starcage 44
the works of Akio Hizume
In search of AI 50
mathematics & artificial intelligence
Art in nature/nature in art 60
Andy Goldsworthy
Do bees count? 64
e-paper & mathematics 65
Mathematics mints a coin 70
The sound of mathematics 72
music & mathematics
Mathematics engineers your finances 82
Numbers, numbers everywhere 85
You’ve come a long way ! 89
Icosa shelters 95
mathematically designed shelters
Computers get stressed out too! 98
lock-up, crash, freeze
mathematics & the pomegranate 101
rhombic dodecahedron & sphere packing