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• Title:Beautiful, simple, exact, crazy : mathematics in the real world / Apoorva Khare and Anna Lachowska.
  
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• Author/Creator:Khare, Apoorva, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Lachowska, Anna, author.
  
• Published/Created:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
  ©2015
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QA11.2 .K53 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mathematics--Study and teaching.
  Mathematics.
  Mathematics--Philosophy.
  
• Description:xv, 459 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"In this vibrant work, which is ideal for 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 deep space probe transmissions are similar to medieval knights. Ideal for undergraduate coursework in introductory mathematics and requiring no knowledge of calculus, Khare and Lachowska's enlightening mathematics tour will appeal to a wide audience"--Back cover.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0300190891 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
  9780300190892 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Algebra : the art and craft of computation
  Velocity : on the road
  Acceleration : after the apple falls
  Irrational : the golden mean and other roots
  Exponents : how much would you pay for the island of Manhattan?
  Logarithms I. : money grows on trees, but it takes time
  Logarithms II : rescaling the world
  e : the queen of growth and decay
  Finite series : summing up your mortgage, geometrically
  Infinite series : fractals and the myth of forever
  Estimation : what is your first guess?
  Modular arithmetic I : around the clock and the calendar
  Modular arithmetic II : how to keep (and break) secrets
  Probability : dice, coins, cards, and winning streaks
  Permutations and combinations : counting your choices
  Bayes' law : how to win a car. or a goat
  Statistics : Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds
  Regression : chasing connections in big data
  The bigger story.