Nature s Numbers

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Nature s Numbers
Nature s Numbers
Author : Ian Stewart
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Publisher : Unknown
Language : English
Release Date : 19 April 1995
ISBN : 0753805308
Pages : 192 pages
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A mathematical sightseeing tour of the natural world from the author of THE MAGICAL MAZE Why do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but leopards have spots? Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence. Mathematics can look at a single snowflake and deduce the atomic geometry of its crystals; it can start with a violin string and uncover the existence of radio waves. And mathematics still has the power to open our eyes to new and unsuspected regularities - the secret structure of a cloud or the hidden rhythms of the weather. There are patterns in the world we are now seeing for the first time - patterns at the frontier of science, yet patterns so simple that anybody can see them once they know where to look.

Nature s Numbers

Nature s Numbers by Ian Stewart

A mathematical sightseeing tour of the natural world from the author of THE MAGICAL MAZE Why do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but leopards have spots? Mathematics is to nature as

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Nature s Numbers

Nature s Numbers by Ian Stewart

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Growing Patterns

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The Beauty of Numbers in Nature

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Think of a zebra's stripes, the complexities of a spider's web, the uniformity of desert dunes, or the spirals in a sunflower head ... think of a snowflake. The Beauty of Numbers in Nature shows how life on Earth forms the principles of mathematics. Starting with the simplest patterns, each chapter

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The number of points on a starfish or on a snowflake, the number of moons in the night sky. Let's count how many surprises nature has all around us.

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Nature s Numbers

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