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245 00 $a 50 visions of mathematics / $c edited by Sam Parc ; [with a foreword by Dara O Briain].
246 3  $a Fifty visions of mathematics
250    $a 1st ed.
260    $a Oxford, [England] : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2014.
300    $a ill. (some col.) ; $a ill. (some col.) ; $c 26 cm.
504    $a Includes bibliographical references.
505 00 $t Pythagoras's theorem: c² . $r Günter M. Ziegler -- $t Mathematics of messages / $r Alan J. Aw -- $t Decathlon : the art of scoring points / $r John D. Barrow -- $t Queen Dido and the mathematics of the extreme / $r Greg Bason -- $t Can strings tie things together? / $r David Berman -- $t Dimples, grooves and knuckleballs / $r Ken Bray -- $t Pigs didn't fly but swine flu / $r Ellen Brooks-Pollock, Ken Eames -- $t Bill Tutte : Unsung Bletchley hero / $r Chris Budd -- $t What's the use of a quadratic equation? / $r Chris Budd, Chris Sangwin -- $t Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme / $r Alan Champneys -- $t Mathematics of obesity / $r Carson C. Chow -- $t It's a small world really / $r Tony Crilly -- $t How does mathematics help at a murder scene? / $r Graham Divall -- $t Mathematics : the language of the universe / $r Marcus Du Sautoy -- $t Troublesome geometry of CAT scanning / $r Richard Elwes -- $t Mathematics of sports gambling / $r Alistair Fitt -- $t Pythagoras's Theorem : a². A conversation with Freeman Dyson / $r Marianne Freiberger, Rachel Thomas -- $t Glass of bubbly / $r Paul Glendinning -- $t Influenza virus : it's all in the packaging / $r Julia Gog -- $t Solving the Bristol bridge problem / $r Thilo Gross -- $t All ravens are black : puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics / $r David Hand -- $t Tower of Hanoi : where mathematics meets psychology / $r Andreas M. Hinz, Marianne Freiberger -- $t Career : a sample path / $r Philip Holmes -- $t Sweets in the jar / $r Steve Humble -- $t Mary Cartwright / $r Lisa Jardine -- $t Fallibility of mathematics / $r Adam Jasko -- $t Anecdotes of Dr Barrow / $r Tom Körner -- $t Finding Apollo / $r Adam Kucharski -- $t Golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics / $r Mario Livio -- $t High-power hypar / $r Peter Lynch -- $t This is not a carrot : Paraconsistent mathematics / $r Maarten McKubre-Jordens -- $t Mystery of Groombridge Place / $r Alexander Masters, Simon Norton -- $t Pythagoras's Theorem : b². Mathematicians at the movies : Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty / $r Derek E. Moulton, Alain Goriely -- $t Mysterious number 6174 / $r Yutaka Nishiyama -- $t Percolating possibilities / $r Colva Roney-Dougal, Vince Vatter -- $t Milestones on a non-Euclidean journey / $r Caroline Series -- $t Simpson's rule / $r Simon Singh -- $t Risking your life / $r David Spiegelhalter -- $t Networks and illusions / $r Ian Stewart -- $t Emmy Noether : against the odds / $r Danielle Stretch -- $t Of catastrophes and creodes / $r Paul Taylor -- $t Conic section hide and seek / $r Rachel Thomas -- $t Sir James Lighthill : a life in waves / $r Ahmer Wadee -- $t Fail safe or fail dangerous / $r Ahmer Wadee, Alan Champneys -- $t Leapfrogging into the future / $r Paul Williams -- $t Motorway mathematics / $r Eddie Wilson -- $t Philosophy of applied mathematics / $r Phil Wilson -- $t Mighty morphogenesis / $r Thomas Woolley -- $t Called to the barcode / $r Andrew Wrigley -- $t Roughly fifty-fifty? / $r Günter M. Ziegler -- $t Pythagoras's theorem: c² .
520 8  $a To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), this book is designed to showcase the beauty of mathematics - including images inspired by mathematical problems - together with its unreasonable effectiveness and applicability, without frying your brain.
700 1  $a Parc, Sam.
700 1  $a O Briain, Dara, $d 1972-
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