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• Title:Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, & Other Mathematical Explorations / Keith Ball.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ball, Keith.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Princeton University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
  
• Published/Created:Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]
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• In:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
  Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Univ. Press eBook Package 2000-2013
  Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
  Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014
  

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  • Call Number: QA93
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Mathematics--Miscellanea.
  Mathematics--Popular works.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  MATHEMATICS / Recreations & Games.
  
• Edition:Course Book
  
• Description:1 online resource
  
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• Summary:How does mathematics enable us to send pictures from space back to Earth? Where does the bell-shaped curve come from? Why do you need only 23 people in a room for a 50/50 chance of two of them sharing the same birthday? In Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, and Other Mathematical Explorations, Keith Ball highlights how ideas, mostly from pure math, can answer these questions and many more. Drawing on areas of mathematics from probability theory, number theory, and geometry, he explores a wide range of concepts, some more light-hearted, others central to the development of the field and used daily by mathematicians, physicists, and engineers. Each of the book's ten chapters begins by outlining key concepts and goes on to discuss, with the minimum of technical detail, the principles that underlie them. Each includes puzzles and problems of varying difficulty. While the chapters are self-contained, they also reveal the links between seemingly unrelated topics. For example, the problem of how to design codes for satellite communication gives rise to the same idea of uncertainty as the problem of screening blood samples for disease. Accessible to anyone familiar with basic calculus, this book is a treasure trove of ideas that will entertain, amuse, and bemuse students, teachers, and math lovers of all ages.
  
• Notes:In English.
  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
  
• ISBN:9781400841240
  
• Contents: Frontmatter
  Contents
  Preface
  Acknowledgements
  Chapter one. Shannon's Free Lunch
  Chapter Two. Counting Dots
  Chapter Three. Fermat's Little Theorem and Infinite Decimals
  Chapter Four. Strange Curves
  Chapter Five. Shared Birthdays, Normal Bells
  Chapter Six. Stirling Works
  Chapter Seven. Spare Change, Pools of Blood
  Chapter Eight. Fibonacci's Rabbits Revisited
  Chapter Nine. Chasing the Curve
  Chapter Ten. Rational and Irrational
  Index