Beautiful, Simple, Exact, Crazy: Mathematics in the Real World - Couverture souple

Khare, Apoorva; Lachowska, Anna

 
9780300190892: Beautiful, Simple, Exact, Crazy: Mathematics in the Real World
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0300190891 ISBN 13 : 9780300190892
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2015

Synopsis

In this vibrant work, which is ideal for both teaching and learning, Apoorva Khare and Anna Lachowska explain the mathematics essential for understanding and appreciating our quantitative world. They show with examples that mathematics is a key tool in the creation and appreciation of art, music, and literature, not just science and technology. The book covers basic mathematical topics from logarithms to statistics, but the authors eschew mundane finance and probability problems. Instead, they explain how modular arithmetic helps keep our online transactions safe, how logarithms justify the twelve-tone scale commonly used in music, and how transmissions by deep space probes are similar to knights serving as messengers for their traveling prince. Ideal for coursework in introductory mathematics and requiring no knowledge of calculus, Khare and Lachowska's enlightening mathematics tour will appeal to a wide audience.

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À propos de l'auteur

Apoorva Khare is currently a research associate in mathematics and statistics at Stanford University. Anna Lachowska is a lecturer in mathematics at Yale University.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300190891
ISBN 13 
9780300190892
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
480
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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