Think of a Number
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Think of a Number

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eBook - ePub

Think of a Number

About this book

How many colors are needed to color a map? Must hailstones numbers always fall to the ground? Can statistics prove anything? What is a perfect square, and who has found the ultimate one? How do numbers affect national security? What kinds of problems confront the traveling salesman? Does anyone know how best to pack balls together? What is life like in 4 (or 3 1/2) dimensions? How does a clock count, and why should we care? What number secrets do sunflowers and pine cones conceal? What is a monster doing in mathematics? These and many other fascinating questions about familiar numbers like 1, 2, and 3 are explored in Malcolm Line's second adventure into the world of numbers. Written in a lively and readable style, Think of a Number relates the story of some of the most famous problems that have confronted the world's experts over the centuries, from the earliest interests of the ancient Greeks to the very cutting-edge of modern research involving today's most powerful computers. The book explores the relationship between numbers and nature in its broadest sense and discovers the beauty of fractals and chaos. Requiring little or no prior knowledge of mathematics, this resource will be fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in numbers and their role in the natural world.

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2021
Topic
Mathematics
eBook ISBN
9781000153910
Subtopic
Games in Mathematics
Index
Mathematics

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 The Fibonacci family and friends
  9. 3 Rising and falling with the hailstone numbers
  10. 4 Lies, damned lies, and statistics
  11. 5 The pluperfect square; an ultimate patio decor
  12. 6 The trouble with Euclid’s fifth
  13. 7 Clock numbers; an invention of the master
  14. 8 Cryptography; the science of secret writing
  15. 9 Numbers and national security
  16. 10 Are four colours enough7
  17. 11 Rulers, ominoes, and Professor Golomb
  18. 12 What on earth is an NP problem 1
  19. 13 How many balls can you shake into a can?
  20. 14 In-between dimensions
  21. 15 TThe road to chaos
  22. 16 Super-mathematics and the monster
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index

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