02474cam a22003494a 4500 13938395 MWNLS 20060315153608.0 050421s2005 nyua b 001 0 eng 2005011106 0393059456 (hardcover) 9780393329313 0393329313 DLC DLC DLC pcc QA99 .B87 2005 510 22 Burger, Edward B., 1963- 2479 Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz : making light of weighty ideas / Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird ; original illustrations by Alan Witschonke. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2005. ix, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Understanding uncertainty : coincidences -- Chaos, and confusion -- Unbridled coincidences : likelihood, lady luck, and lady love -- Chaos reigns : why we can't predict the future -- Digesting life's data : statistical surprises -- Embracing figures: sensing secrecy -- Magnificent magnitudes, and nature's numbers -- Secrets held, secrets revealed : cryptography decrypted -- Sizing up numbers : how many? how big? how quick? -- A synergy between nature and number : a search for -- Pattern -- Exploring aesthetics: sexy rectangles -- Fiery fractals, and contortions of space -- From precise beauty to pure chaos: picturing aesthetics -- Through the lens of mathematics -- Origami for the origamically challenged: from paper folding -- To computers and fiery fractals -- A twisted turn in an amorphous universe: an exploration of -- An elasticized world -- transcending reality: the fourth -- Dimension and infinity -- The universe next door: the magic of the fourth dimension -- Moving beyond the confines of our nutshell: a journey into -- Infinity -- In search of something still larger: a journey beyond -- Infinity. Mathematics Humor. 2480 Starbird, Michael P. 2481 Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005011106.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 955 955 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC BT BT GEN 2010-06-04 Book Aid International 3000.00 510 BUR 0001666 2010-06-04 00:00:00 3500.00 2010-06-04 BK