Mathematicians Don't Work With Numbers (Record no. 60686)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9783031589164 |
| -- | 978-3-031-58916-4 |
| 024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 10.1007/978-3-031-58916-4 |
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| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QA1-939 |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | PB |
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| Subject category code | MAT000000 |
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| Subject category code | PB |
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| Personal name | Poulo, Richard. |
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| 9 (RLIN) | 78606 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Mathematicians Don't Work With Numbers |
| Medium | [electronic resource] / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | by Richard Poulo. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. 2024. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Cham : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Springer Nature Switzerland : |
| -- | Imprint: Birkhäuser, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2024. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | XV, 195 p. 77 illus., 1 illus. in color. |
| Other physical details | online resource. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| File type | text file |
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| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction -- A Citizen’s Dilemma -- The Structure of Mathematics -- A Danger Scale -- Public Key Encryption I -- Public Key Encryption II -- Fractals -- Graphs -- Military Math -- Statistics – A Rant -- Estimation -- Ramanujan -- Hardy -- It’s Obvious -- Chaos -- Recognition -- Map Coloring -- Groups -- Topology I -- Topology II -- Non-existence Proofs -- Existence Proofs -- Can’t Be Computed -- Can’t Be Proved -- Games -- The Greatest Three -- Sets -- Infinity -- The Largest Hotel Ever -- Tied Up in Knots -- Probably -- Rush Hour Traffic -- Fermat and His Last Theorem -- A Million Bucks -- Russia vs. America -- Cardano, Viète and Notation -- President James Garfield -- Error-Correcting Codes -- Mercator Maps -- Ball and Saddle Geometries -- The Spherical Earth -- Consistency -- Can Be Proved -- Cycloids -- C******* of Variations -- Amazing Waves -- How to Push a Pendulum -- Surprising Theorems -- Mathematical Aesthetics -- Katherine Johnson’s Math -- My Career as a Mathematician -- Afterword -- Further Reading -- Movies About Real Mathematicians. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This book answers, in the form of short and entertaining vignettes, the question: "What do mathematicians really do?" Readers will learn that mathematicians use numbers in the same way that novelists use letters. The individual letters are typed while the author thinks on a much grander scale, invisible to the observer. Requiring only familiarity with the multiplication table (and that for only one vignette), the book makes accessible a variety of mathematical concepts, such as game theory, chaos, and, as the author puts it, the c******* of variations. The author accomplishes this with a light, engaging style, and a range of real-world examples that includes everything from barbershops to President James Garfield. Mathematicians Don't Work With Numbers will be of interest to the large audience of people who have always assumed that mathematicians do, in fact, work with numbers. |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| 773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY | |
| Title | Springer Nature eBook |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9783031589157 |
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| Relationship information | Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9783031589171 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58916-4">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58916-4</a> |
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