100 essential things you didn't know you didn't know : math explains your world

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100 essential things you didn't know you didn't know : math explains your world

John D. Barrow

W.W. Norton, 2009

1st American ed

  • : hbk

タイトル別名

One hundred essential things you didn't know you didn't know

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Includes bibliographical references

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内容説明

Mathematics can reveal and illuminate things about the complex world we live in that can't be found any other way. In this hugely informative and entertaining book, John D. Barrow takes the most perplexing of everyday phenomena-from the odds of winning the lottery and the method of determining batting averages to the shapes of roller coasters and the reasoning behind the fairest possible divorce settlements-and explains why things work the way they do. With elementary math and accompanying illustrations, he sheds light on the mysterious corners of the world we encounter every day. Have you ever considered why you always seem to get stuck in the longest line? Why two's company but three's a crowd? Or why there are six degrees of separation instead of seven? This clever little book has all the answers to these puzzling, everyday questions of existence that need not perplex us anymore.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB01490700
  • ISBN
    • 9780393070071
  • LCCN
    2008055910
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    xiv, 284 p.
  • 大きさ
    22 cm
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