Weird math : a teenage genius & his teacher reveal the strange connections between math & everyday life / David Darling & Agnijo Banerjee.
Everyone has stared at the crumpled page of a math assignment and wondered, where on Earth will I ever use this? It turns out, Earth is precisely the place. As teen math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his teacher David Darling reveal, complex math surrounds us. If we think long enough about the univers...
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| Other title: | Teenage genius & his teacher reveal the strange connections between math & everyday life Teenage genius and his teacher reveal the strange connections between math and everyday life |
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The math behind the world
- How to see in 4-D
- Chance is a fine thing
- Patterns at the brink of chaos
- Turing's fantastic machine
- Music of the spheres
- Prime mysteries
- Can chess be solved?
- What is and what should never be
- You can't get there from here
- The biggest number of all
- Bend it, stretch it, any way you want to
- God, Gödel, and the search for proof.