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Khare, Apoorva; Lachowska, Anna

 
9780300190892: Beautiful, Simple, Exact, Crazy: Mathematics in the Real World
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ISBN 10: 0300190891 ISBN 13: 9780300190892
Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2015

Sinossi

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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Informazioni sull'autore

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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Editore
Yale Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0300190891
ISBN 13 
9780300190892
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
459
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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