Figuring It Out (Record no. 111650)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 978-3-642-04833-3 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | DE-He213 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20140220084527.0 |
| 007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9783642048333 |
| -- | 978-3-642-04833-3 |
| 024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 10.1007/978-3-642-04833-3 |
| Source of number or code | doi |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QA1-939 |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | PB |
| Source | bicssc |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | MAT000000 |
| Source | bisacsh |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 510 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Crato, Nuno. |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Figuring It Out |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | Entertaining Encounters with Everyday Math / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | by Nuno Crato. |
| 264 #1 - | |
| -- | Berlin, Heidelberg : |
| -- | Springer Berlin Heidelberg : |
| -- | Imprint: Copernicus, |
| -- | 2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | IX, 227 p. |
| Other physical details | online resource. |
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| -- | computer |
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| 338 ## - | |
| -- | online resource |
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| 347 ## - | |
| -- | text file |
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| -- | rda |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Everyday Matters -- The Dinner Table Algorithm -- Cutting the Christmas Cake -- Oranges and Computers -- When Two and Two Don’t Make Four -- Getting More Intelligent Every Day -- The Other Lane Always Goes Faster -- Shoelaces and Neckties -- Number Puzzles -- Tossing a Coin -- The Switch -- Eubulides, The Heap and The Euro -- The Earth is Round -- How GPS Works -- Gear Wheels -- February 29 -- The Nonius Scale -- Pedro Nunes’ Map -- Lighthouse Geometry -- Asteroids and Least Squares -- The Useful Man and the Genius -- Secret Affairs -- Alice and Bob1 -- Inviolate Cybersecrets -- Quantum Cryptography -- The FBI Wavelet -- The Enigma Machine -- Art and Geometry -- The Vitruvian Man -- The Golden Number -- The Geometry of A4 Paper Sizes -- The Strange Worlds of Escher -- Escher and the Möbius Strip -- Picasso, Einstein and the Fourth Dimension -- Pollock’s Fractals -- Voronoi Diagrams -- The Platonic Solids -- Pythagorean Mosquitoes -- The Most Beautiful of All -- Mathematical Objects -- The Power of Math -- Doubts in the Realm of Certainty -- When Chance Enhances Reliability -- The Difficulty of Chance -- Conjectures and Proofs -- Mr. Benford -- Financial Fractals -- Turing’s Test -- DNA Computers -- Magical Multiplication -- ? Day -- The Best Job in the World -- Out of this World -- Electoral Paradoxes -- The Melon Paradox -- The Cupcake Paradox -- Infinity -- Unfair Games -- Monsieur Bertrand -- Boy or Girl? -- A Puzzle for Christmas -- Crisis Time for Easter Eggs. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This is a book of mathematical stories — funny and puzzling mathematical stories. They tell of villains who try to steal secrets, heroes who encode their messages, and mathematicians who spend years on end searching for the best way to pile oranges. There are also stories about highway confusions occurring when the rules of Cartesian geometry are ignored, small-change errors due to ignorance of ancient paradoxes, and mistakes in calendars arising from poor numerical approximations. This book is about the power and beauty of mathematics. It shows mathematics in action, explained in a way that everybody can understand. It is a book for enticing youngsters and inspiring teachers. Nuno Crato is a leading science writer and mathematician, whose entertaining essays have won a number of international awards. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mathematics. |
| 650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mathematics. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mathematics, general. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology. |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| 773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY | |
| Title | Springer eBooks |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Display text | Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9783642048326 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04833-3 |
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