Beautiful, Simple, Exact, Crazy: Mathematics in the Real World - Softcover

Khare, Apoorva; Lachowska, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300190891 ISBN 13: 9780300190892

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Apoorva Khare is currently a research associate in mathematics and statistics at Stanford University. Anna Lachowska is a lecturer in mathematics at Yale University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0300190891
• ISBN 13: 9780300190892
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar