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Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas
Coincidences Chaos and All That Math Jazz Making Light of Weighty Ideas Author:Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird "A profusely illustrated, bemusingly unorthodox introduction to math."Booklist — A book for the eternally curious, Coincidences fuses a professor's understanding of the hidden mathematical skeleton of the universe with the sensibility of a stand-up comedian, making life's big questions accessible and compelling. Each chapter o... more »pens with a surprising insightnot a mathematic formula, but a common observation. From there, the authors leapfrog over math and anecdote toward profound ideas about nature, art, and music. Coincidences is a book for lovers of puzzles and posers of outlandish questions, lapsed math aficionados and the formula-phobic alike. 160 illustrations.« less