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Mathematics everywhere / Martin Aigner, Ehrhard Behrends, editors ; translated by Philip G. Spain
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Miscellaneous Books, v. 72
- Standardized Title:
- Alles Mathematik. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Providence, R.I. American Mathematical Society [2010]
- System Details:
- Mode of access : World Wide Web
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Math becomes a cult
- description of a hope Chapter 2. The mathematics of the compact disc Chapter 3. Image processing and imaging for operation planning in liver surgery Chapter 4. The quickest path to the goal Chapter 5. Romeo and Juliet, spontaneous pattern formation, and Turing's instability Chapter 6. Mathematics and intelligent materials Chapter 7. Discrete tomography: from battleship to nanotechnology Chapter 8. Reflections on reflections Chapter 9. The role of mathematics in the financial markets Chapter 10. Electronic money: an impossibility or already a reality? Chapter 11. Spheres in the computer
- the Kepler conjecture Chapter 12. How do quanta compute? The new world of the quantum computer Chapter 13. Fermat's Last Theorem
- the solution of a 300 year old problem Chapter 14. A short history of the Nash equilibrium Chapter 15. Mathematics in the climate of global change Chapter 16. Prime numbers, secret codes and the boundaries of computability Chapter 17. The mathematics of knots Chapter 8. On soap bubbles Chapter 19. Heat diffusion, the structure of space and the Poincaré Conjecture Chapter 20. Chance and mathematics: a late love Chapter 21. The prospects for mathematics in a multi-media civilization
- Notes:
- Translated from the German: Alles Mathematik. 3rd edition Wiesbaden : Vieweg + Teubner, 2009
- Includes bibliographical references
- Electronic reproduction. Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society. 2012
- Description based on print version record
- Other Format:
- Print version: Mathematics everywhere /
- ISBN:
- 9781470416058
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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