Nature's Numbers
Discovering Order and Pattern in the Universe
A mathematical sightseeing tour of the natural world from the author of THE MAGICAL MAZEWhy 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 ar…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7538-0530-5
- EAN: 9780753805305
- Produktnummer: 9362311
- Verlag: Orion Publishing Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.6 cm 200 g
- Abbildungen: 10 Line Drawing(s)
- Gewicht: 200
Über den Autor
Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Mathematics Awareness Centre at the University of Warwick. He was awarded the 1995 Michael Faraday Medal by the Royal Society for his significant contribution to the public understanding of science.
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