How Math Explains the World.pdf

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Contents Preface Introduction Prologue: Why Your Car Never Seems to Be Ready When They Promised 1  Section I: Describing the ...

About the Author Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher ...

Preface The November Statement My first glimpse into mathematics, as opposed to arithmetic, came on a Saturday afternoon in lat ...

a two-digit number, reversed the digits, and subtracted one from the other, the result was always divisible by 9.^1 Seeing as I ...

tradition of excellence in science writing. I’d be happy if this book was mentioned in the same breath as any of the above. I’ve ...

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Introduction Not Just a Rock We advance, both as individuals and as a species, by solving problems. As a rule of thumb, the rew ...

submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and ...

opens doors for us to learn fascinating things and, even better, to use what we learn to make our lives richer beyond imagining. ...

knowledge of their properties could help with problems in surveying. The properties of the functions discussed in Arrow’s theore ...

in a password or take money from an ATM, because this difficulty in fac- toring large numbers that are the product of two primes ...

twice the length of a single square of the chessboard, and whose width is the length of one square of the chessboard, so that ea ...

maticians and scientists are keenly aware that nature may frustrate all their efforts. Sometimes, there is no music out there. P ...

ones—and the only way we are going to do that is to train highly compe- tent people, and some brilliant ones, to attack those pr ...

ematics of Galois theory or quantum mechanics). As a result, there are many references to Web sites in the appendix—but Web site ...

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