TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hayes,Brian
TI  - Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations
T2  - The MIT Press Series
SN  - 9780262342681
AV  - QA93 .H394 2017 
U1  - 510 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - A non-mathematician explores mathematical terrain, reporting accessibly and engagingly on topics from Sudoku to probability
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ER  -