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Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (245 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262342681
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Foolproof, and Other Mathematical MeditationsDDC classification:
  • 510
LOC classification:
  • QA93 .H394 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Young Gauss Sums It Up -- 2 Outside the Law of Averages -- 3 How to Avoid Yourself -- 4 The Spectrum of Riemannium -- 5 Unwed Numbers -- 6 Crinkly Curves -- 7 Wagering with Zeno -- 8 The Higher Arithmetic -- 9 First Links in the Markov Chain -- 10 Playing Ball in the nth Dimension -- 11 Quasirandom Ramblings -- 12 Pencil, Paper, and Pi -- 13 Foolproof -- Sources and Resources -- References -- Index.
Summary: A non-mathematician explores mathematical terrain, reporting accessibly and engagingly on topics from Sudoku to probability.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Young Gauss Sums It Up -- 2 Outside the Law of Averages -- 3 How to Avoid Yourself -- 4 The Spectrum of Riemannium -- 5 Unwed Numbers -- 6 Crinkly Curves -- 7 Wagering with Zeno -- 8 The Higher Arithmetic -- 9 First Links in the Markov Chain -- 10 Playing Ball in the nth Dimension -- 11 Quasirandom Ramblings -- 12 Pencil, Paper, and Pi -- 13 Foolproof -- Sources and Resources -- References -- Index.

A non-mathematician explores mathematical terrain, reporting accessibly and engagingly on topics from Sudoku to probability.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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