The heart of mathematics : an invitation to effective thinking /

"Mathematicians encounter surprising and fascinating ideas such as infinity, chaos, fractals, the fourth dimension, rubber sheet geometry, coincidences, and other intriguing topics ... These ideas portray effective strategies in everyday thinking that add value to how people make real-life deci...

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Autor principal: Burger, Edward B., 1963-
Otros Autores: Starbird, Michael
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2013.
Edición:4th ed.
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250 |a 4th ed. 
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500 |a Incluye índice. 
505 0 |a Fun and games -- Number contemplation -- Infinity -- Geometric gems -- Contortions of space -- Modeling our world through graphs -- Fractals and chaos -- Taming uncertainty -- Meaning from data -- Deciding wisely. 
520 |a "Mathematicians encounter surprising and fascinating ideas such as infinity, chaos, fractals, the fourth dimension, rubber sheet geometry, coincidences, and other intriguing topics ... These ideas portray effective strategies in everyday thinking that add value to how people make real-life decisions in areas of love and business to art and politics. This book makes these ideas accessible to all students"--Contratapa. 
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