50 Visions of Mathematics

Author:   Sam Parc (Insitute of Mathematics and its Applications) ,  Dara O' Briain
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198701811


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 May 2014
Format:   Hardback
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"Relax: no one understands technical mathematics without lengthy training but we all have an intuitive grasp of the ideas behind the symbols. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), this book is designed to showcase the beauty of mathematics - including images inspired by mathematical problems - together with its unreasonable effectiveness and applicability, without frying your brain. The book is a collection of 50 original essays contributed by a wide variety of authors. It contains articles by some of the best expositors of the subject (du Sautoy, Singh and Stewart for example) together with entertaining biographical pieces and articles of relevance to our everyday lives (such as Spiegelhalter on risk and Elwes on medical imaging). The topics covered are deliberately diverse and involve concepts from simple numerology to the very cutting edge of mathematics research. Each article is designed to be read in one sitting and to be accessible to a general audience. There is also other content. There are 50 pictorial 'visions of mathematics' which were supplied in response to an open call for contributions from IMA members, Plus readers and the worldwide mathematics community. You'll also find a series of ""proofs "" of Phythagoras's Theorem - mathematical, literary and comedy - after this, you'll never think of Pythagoras the same way again."

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Author:   Sam Parc (Insitute of Mathematics and its Applications) ,  Dara O' Briain
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.698kg
ISBN:  

9780198701811


ISBN 10:   0198701810
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 May 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: David Acheson: What's the problem with mathematics? 2: Alan J. Aw: The mathematics of messages 3: John D. Barrow: Decathlon: The art of scoring points 4: Greg Bason: Queen Dido and the mathematics of the extreme 5: David Berman: Can strings tie things together? 6: Ken Bray: Grooves and knuckleballs 7: Ellen Brooks-Pollock and Ken Eames: Pigs didn't fly but swine flu 8: Chris Budd: Bill Tutte: Unsung Bletchley hero 9: Chris Budd and Chris Sangwin: What's the use of a quadratic equation? 10: Alan Champneys: Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme 11: Carson C. Chow: The mathematics of obesity 12: Tony Crilly: It's a small world really 13: Graham Divall: How does mathematics help at a murder scene? 14: Marcus du Sautoy: Mathematics: The language of the universe 15: Richard Elwes: The troublesome geometry of CAT scanning 16: Alistair Fitt: The mathematics of sports gambling Pythagoras's Theorem: a2 17: Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas: A conversation with Freeman Dyson 18: Paul Glendinning: A glass of bubbly 19: Julia Gog: The influenza virus: It's all in the packaging 20: Derek Moulton and Alain Goriely: Mathematicians at the movies: Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty 21: Thilo Gross: Solving the Bristol bridge problem 22: David Hand: All ravens are black: Puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics 23: Andreas Hinz and Marianne Freiberger: The Tower of Hanoi: Where mathematics meets psychology 24: Philip Holmes: Career: A sample path 25: Steve Humble: Sweets in the jar 26: Lisa Jardine: Mary Cartwright 27: Adam Jasko: The fallibility of mathematics 28: Tom Körner: Anecdotes of Dr Barrow 29: Adam Kucharski: Finding Apollo 30: Mario Livio: The golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics 31: Peter Lynch: The high-power hypar 32: Maarten McKubre-Jordens: This is not a carrot: Paraconsistent mathematics 33: Alexander Masters and Simon Norton: The mystery of Groombridge Place Pythagoras's Theorem: b2 34: Yutaka Nishiyama: Mysterious number 6174 35: Colva Roney-Dougal & Vince Vatter: Percolating possibilities 36: Caroline Series: Milestones on a non-Euclidean journey 37: Simon Singh: Simpson's rule 38: David Spiegelhalter: Risking your life 39: Ian Stewart: Networks and illusions 40: Danielle Stretch: Emmy Noether: Against the odds 41: Paul Taylor: Of catastrophes and creodes: How maths benefits from collaboration with other fields 42: Rachel Thomas: Conic section hide and seek 43: Ahmer Wadee: Sir James Lighthill: A life in waves 44: Ahmer Wadee and Alan Champneys: Fail safe or fail dangerous 45: Paul Williams: Leapfrogging into the future: How child's play is at the heart of weather and climate models 46: Eddie Wilson: Motorway mathematics 47: Phil Wilson: The philosophy of applied mathematics 48: Thomas Woolley: Mighty Morphogenesis 49: Andrew Wrigley: Called to the barcode 50: Günter Ziegler: Roughly fifty-fifty? Pythagoras's Theorem: c2

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Motorways; Sherlock Holmes; networks; mysterious numbers; sweets; champagne; interviews; mathematical poetry; ravens and even The Simpsons - this book has them all and more! Don't miss it! Alan Stevens, Mathematics Today


Author Information

Sam Parc studied mathematics and engineering in the UK, Germany and Australia and has previously worked at the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cambridge, Manchester and Newcastle and at Imperial College London. She works for the UK's Institute of Mathematics and its Applications where she provides a passion for popularising mathematics. Her previous work has involved writing a mathematical agony aunt column in a provincial newspaper and maintaining a popular online mathematical magazine. She lives in Southend-on-Sea with her large family and dog, Benji. This is her first book.

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