03320nam a22003975i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001200153072001500165072002300180072001400203100007700217245008700294250001800381264007300399300006300472336002600535337002600561338003600587347002400623505108500647520089501732650001702627650002502644650003602669650003902705710003402744773002602778776003602804776003602840856004602876978-3-031-58916-4DE-He21320251030112309.0cr nn 008mamaa240612s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315891647 a10.1007/978-3-031-58916-42doi 4aQA1-939 7aPB2bicssc 7aMAT0000002bisacsh 7aPB2thema1 aPoulo, Richard.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aMathematicians Don't Work With Numbersh[electronic resource] /cby Richard Poulo.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Birkhäuser,c2024.  aXV, 195 p. 77 illus., 1 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aIntroduction -- 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.  aThis 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. 0aMathematics.14aGeneral Mathematics.24aMathematics in Popular Science.24aGeneral Mathematics and Education.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303158915708iPrinted edition:z978303158917140uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58916-4