02364cam a22003374a 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003201000170007302000270009002000180011702000150013504000180015004200080016805000200017608200120019610000360020824501640024425000120040826000370042030000330045750400510049050511280054165000300166970000310169985600780173090600450180894200120185399900130186595201480187813938395MWNLS20060315153608.0050421s2005    nyua     b    001 0 eng    a  2005011106  a0393059456 (hardcover)  a9780393329313  a0393329313  aDLCcDLCdDLC  apcc00aQA99b.B87 200500a5102221 aBurger, Edward B.,d1963-9247910aCoincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz :bmaking light of weighty ideas /cEdward B. Burger, Michael Starbird ; original illustrations by Alan Witschonke.  a1st ed.  aNew York :bW.W. Norton,cc2005.  aix, 276 p. :bill. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aUnderstanding 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. 0aMathematicsvHumor.924801 aStarbird, Michael P.92481413Table of contentsuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005011106.html  a7bcbccorignewd1eecipf20gy-gencatlg  2ddccBK  c955d955  00102ddc40708NFICaBTbBTcGENd2010-06-04eBook Aid Internationalg3000.00o510 BURp0001666r2010-06-04 00:00:00v3500.00w2010-06-04yBK