Engels | 25-05-2021 |
9780241510452
Paperback / softback
€ 19,00
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How should a democracy choose its representatives? How does Covid-19 spread? How do computers teach themselves chess, and why is chess easier for them than analyzing a sentence? What should your kids study in school if they really want to learn to think? All of these are questions about geometry. Seriously!
Jordan Ellenberg reveals the mathematics behind some of the most important scientific, political and philosophical conundrums we face. The word 'geometry', from the Greek, means 'measuring the world'. If anything, geometry doesn't just measure the world, it explains it. Shape shows us how.
Jordan Ellenberg is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, and the Sunday Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong, as well as an award-winning novel, The Grasshopper King. He has lectured around the world on his research in number theory, and writes regularly for The New York Times, Washington Post and Wired.
EAN : | 9780241510452 |
Uitgever : | Penguin Books Ltd (UK)-Penguin Books Ltd (UK) |
Publicatie datum : | 25-05-2021 |
Uitvoering : | Paperback / softback |
Taal : | Engels |
Hoogte : | 233 mm |
Breedte : | 156 mm |
Dikte : | 40 mm |
Gewicht : | 587 gr |
Status : | Wachten op heruitgave |
Keywords : | humble pi; the theory of everything; computer science; how to own the world; weapons of math destruction; chess computer; professor puzzle; alex bellos; matt parker; maths on the back of an envelope; rob eastaway; rob parker; books by stephen hawking; math; education; maths; physics; mathematical logic; mathematical thinking; numbers; math book; golden ratio; fractals |