Ian Stewart
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 353
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
Ian Stewart demonstrates symmetry's deep implications, describing how symmetry's applications range across the entire field of mathematics and how symmetry governs the structure of crystals, innumerable types of pattern formation, and how systems change their state as parameters vary. Symmetry is also highly visual, with applications that include animal markings, locomotion, evolutionary biology, elastic buckling, waves, the shape of the Earth, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"We would like to believe we can know things for certain. We want to be able to figure out who will win an election, if the stock market will crash, or is a suspect committed a crime. But the odds are not in our favor. Life is full of uncertainty-- indeed, scientific advances indicate that the universe might be fundamentally inexact-- and humans are terrible at guessing. Stewart reveals that, over the course of history, mathematics has given us some...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 519
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this 'Very Short Introduction', Ian Stewart discusses infinity in mathematics while also drawing in the various other aspects of infinity and explaining some of the major problems and insights arising from this concept. He argues that working with infinity is not just an abstract, intellectual exercise but that it is instead a concept with important practical everyday applications, and considers how mathematicians use infinity and infinitesimals...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Anchor Books edition.
Language
English
Description
"In The Science of Discworld, the wizards of Unseen University unwittingly created Earth (aka Roundworld) and our universe. At the time, they were so concerned with the rules of this new universe that they overlooked its inhabitants completely. Now, they have finally noticed humanity. And humanity has company: Elves, who want very much to take over human society. In this second installment in the Science of Discworld miniseries, Terry Pratchett and...
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