How Math Explains the World
Subtitle: A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repair to Modern Physics
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Collins
Published: April 22, 2008
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780061241765
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: General; Mathematics / General; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics
Table of contents: title: Preface / ix; title: Introduction / xiii; title: Prologue: Why Your car Never Seems to be Ready When They Promised / 1; title: Section I: / Describing the Universe / 11; title: Section II: / The Incomplete Toolbox / 65; title: Section III: / Information: The Goldilocks Dilemma / 153; title: Section IV: / The Unattainable Utopia / 203; title: Index / 249