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" Mathematical footprints : "
by Theoni Pappas
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BL
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| Record Number
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593684
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b422903
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| Main Entry
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Pappas, Theoni
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| Title & Author
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Mathematical footprints : : discovering mathematical impressions all around us /\ by Theoni Pappas
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| Publication Statement
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San Carlos, CA :: Wide World Publishing/Tetra,, c1999
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| Page. NO
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228 p. :: ill. ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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1884550215
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: 9781884550218
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Early mathematics artifacts -- The very pervasive golden ration -- Seeing is not believing -- Mathematics and your money -- Mathematics, the framework of archetecture -- Hyperspace and beyond -- Mathematics and cubism -- Le grande arche -- The mathematical Pandora's box -- Mathematics and the body -- Will computers take the quantum leap -- Mathematics, Guggenheim Bilbao and Frank Gehry -- The Pythagorean theorem, the survivor -- Rings, helices and dolphins -- The art of Claude Monet -- How knots are tied to mathematics -- Chinese remainder theorem, a problem from the past -- Solitons -- Mathematics of weather forecasting -- Mathematics and the architecture of Arata Isozaki -- Fuzzy numbers -- Mathematics and the art of Alexander Calder -- Wavelets -- The longitude problem -- Mathematics is in the creases -- Mathematics and nature's formations -- Mathematics and the architecture of the pyramids -- Cellular automata, pixels of life -- Art-manifeste -- Mathematics finds its way around mazes -- Meter is a meter is a meter, or is it -- Molecular computers -- A mathematical look at time -- The universe, what's with it anyway -- Numbers help nail errors -- Mathematics and the art of Tony Robbin -- Have we heard the last of Fermat's last theorem -- Mathematics and the game of life -- Mathematics and the architecture of SFMOMA -- Music, matter and mathematics -- Nanotechnology is big stuff -- Soft computing -- It's crystal clear, or is it, quasicrystals and Penrose tiles -- Smart machines
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Mathematics, Miscellanea
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| LC Classification
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QA99.P377 1999
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