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|a QA7 |b .N45 2013

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|a The New York Times book of mathematics : |b more than 100 years of writing by the numbers / |c edited by Gina Kolata ; foreword by Paul Hoffman.

|a New York : |b Sterling, |c [2013]

|a xvi, 480 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm

|a text |b txt |2 rdacontent

|a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia

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|a What is mathematics? -- Statistics, coincidences, and surprising facts -- Famous problems, solved and as yet unsolved -- Chaos, catastrophe, and randomness -- Cryptography and the emergence of truly unbreakable codes -- Computers enter the world of mathematics -- Mathematicians and their world.

|g Foreword / |r Paul Hoffman -- |g Introduction / |r Gina Kolata. -- |g Chapter 1. |t What is mathematics?: |t Useful invention or absolute truth : what is math? / |r George Johnson ; |t But aren't truth and beauty supposed to be enough? / |r James Gleick ; |t Mathematicians meet computerized ideas / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Mathematicians finally log on / |r James Gleick ; |t With major math proof, brute computers show flash of reasoning power / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Computers still can't do beautiful mathematics / |r Gina Kolata ; |t 100 quadrillion calculations later, eureka! / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Theorist applies computer power to uncertainty in statistics / |r Gina Kolata. -- |g Chapter 2. |t Statistics, coincidences, and surprising facts: |t 1-in-a-trillion coincidence, you say? Not really, experts find / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Sometimes heavier objects go to the top : here's why / |r James Gleick ; |t Behind Monty Hall's doors : puzzle, debate and answer? / |r John Tierney ; |t What if they closed 42nd Street and nobody noticed? / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Down for the count : why some numbers are only very good guesses / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Could it be? Weather has nothing to do with your arthritis pain? / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Electronics to aid weather figuring / |r Sidney Shalett ; |t Insurance as a study : something of the men who figure business by algebra ; Leontief's contribution / |r Leonard Silk ; |t Many small events may add up to one mass extinction / |r Malcolm W. Browne ; |t Metric mania / |r John Allen Paulos ; |t In shuffling cards, 7 is a winning number / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Can game theory predict when Iran will get the bomb? / |r Clive Thompson ; |t In modeling risk, the human factor was left out / |r Steve Lohr ; |t Playing the odds / |r George Johnson ; |t Monday puzzle : solution to birthday problem / |r Pradeep Mutalik ; |t Just what are your odds in genetic roulette? Go figure / |r Gina Kolata ; |t The 2000 election : the science of counting / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Prospectus : can a computer program figure out the market? A former analyst and a mathematician are betting that theirs can / |r Janet Stites ; |t New tools for the I.R.S. to sniff out tax cheats / |r David Cay Johnston.

|g Chapter 3. |t Famous problems, solved and as yet unsolved: |t New mathematics links two worlds / |r William L. Laurence ; |t An elusive proof and its elusive prover / |r Dennis Overbye ; |t Ask science : Poincaré's conjecture / |r Dennis Overbye ; |t Grigori Perelman's beautiful mind / |r Jascha Hoffman ; |t A math problem solver declines a $1 million prize / |r Dennis Overbye ; |t "Four-color problem" attacked / |r William L. Laurence ; |t Four-color proof ; Goldbach's conjecture : this one may be provable, but we may never know / |r George Johnson ; |t Mathematics expert may soon resolve a 350-year problem / |r James Gleick ; |t Fermat's theorem solved? Not this time / |r James Gleick ; |t Fermat's last theorem still has 0 solutions / |r James Gleick ; |t At last, shout of "Eureka!" in age-old math mystery / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Fermat's theorem / |r James Gleick ; |t Flaw is found in math proof, but repairs are under way / |r Gina Kolata ; |t A year later Fermat's puzzle is still not quite Q.E.D. / |r Gina Kolata ; |t How a gap in the Fermat proof was bridged / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Two key mathematics questions answered after quarter century / |r John A. Osmundsen ; |t Mathematical theory of poker is applied to business problems / |r Will Lissner ; |t Soap bubbles get a new role in old mathematics problem / |r Joseph Williams ; |t Math advance penetrates secrets of knots / |r James Gleick ; |t Packing tetrahedrons, and closing in on a perfect fit / |r Kenneth Chang ; |t Finding order in the apparent chaos of currents / |r Bina Venkataraman ; |t In bubbles and metal, the art of shape-shifting / |r Kenneth Chang ; |t The scientific promise of perfect symmetry / |r Kenneth Chang ; |t 143-year-old problem still has mathematicians guessing / |r Bruce Schechter ; |t What is the most important problem in math today? / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Solution to old puzzle : how short a shortcut? / |r Gina Kolata. -- |g Chapter 4. |t Chaos, catastrophe, and randomness: |t Chaos is defined by new calculus ; |t Experts debate the prediction of disasters / |r Malcolm W. Browne ; |t Solving the mathematical riddle of chaos / |r James Gleick ; |t The man who reshaped geometry / |r James Gleick ; |t Snowflake's riddle yields to probing of science / |r James Gleick ; |t Tales of chaos : tumbling moons and unstable asteroids / |r James Gleick ; |t Fluid math made simple-- sort of / |r James Gleick ; |t When chaos rules the market / |r James Gleick ; |t New appreciation of the complexity in a flock of birds / |r James Gleick ; |t Indestructible wave may hold key to superconductors / |r James Gleick ; |t The quest for true randomness finally appears successful / |r James Gleick ; |t Coin-tossing computers found to show subtle bias / |r Malcolm W. Browne ; |t Science squints at a future fogged by chaotic uncertainty / |r Malcolm W. Browne ; |t Probing disease clusters : easier to spot than prove / |r Gina Kolata ; |t The odds of that / |r Lisa Belkin ; |t Fractal vision / |r James Gleick.

|g Chapter 5. |t Cryptography and the emergence of truly unbreakable codes: |t Harassment alleged over code research / |r Malcolm W. Browne ; |t Researchers to permit pre-publication review by U.S. / |r Richard Severo ; |t Tighter security rules for advances in cryptology / |r Walter Sullivan ; |t A new approach to protecting secrets is discovered / |r James Gleick ; |t Brief U.S. suppression of proof stirs anger ; A most ferocious math problem tamed / |r Malcolm W. Browne ; |t Biggest division a giant leap in math / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Scientists devise math tool to break a protective code / |r John Markoff ; |t Tied up in knots, cryptographers test their limits / |r Gina Kolata ; |t A public battle over secret codes / |r John Markoff ; |t U.S. code agency is jostling for civilian turf / |r John Markoff ; |t Researchers demonstrate computer code can be broken / |r Sara Robinson ; |t Nick Patterson, a cold war cryptologist takes a crack at deciphering DNA's deep secrets / |r Ingfei Chen ; |t Adding math to list of security threats / |r John Markoff ; |t Prizes aside, the P-NP puzzler has consequences / |r John Markoff. -- |g Chapter 6. |t Computers enter the world of mathematics: |t "Thinking machine" does higher mathematics, solves equations that take humans months ; |t New giant "brain" does wizard work ; |t "Brain" speeded up for war problems / |r Will Lissner ; |t The electronic digital computer : how it started, how it works and what it does / |r Henry L. Lieberman and Dr. Louis Robinson ; |t New shortcut found for long math proofs / |r Gina Kolata ; |t New technique stores images more efficiently / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Giant computer virtually conquers space and time / |r George Johnson ; |t Rear Adm. Grace M. Hopper dies, innovator in computers was 85 / |r John Markoff ; |t Frances E. Holberton, 84, early computer programmer / |r Steve Lohr ; |t Squeezing data like an accordion / |r Peter Wayner ; |t A digital brain makes connections / |r Anne Eisenberg ; |t A Soviet discovery rocks world of mathematics / |r Malcolm W. Browne ; |t The health care debate : finding what works / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Step 1 : post elusive proof. Step 2 : watch fireworks / |r John Markoff. -- |g Chapter 7. |t Mathematicians and their world: |t Paul Erdos, 83, a wayfarer in math's vanguard, is dead / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Journeys to the distant fields of prime / |r Kenneth Chang ; |t Highest honor in mathematics is refused / |r Kenneth Chang ; |t Scientist at work : John H. Conway, at home in the elusive world of mathematics / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Claude Shannon, B. 1916-- bit player / |r James Gleick ; |t An isolated genius is given his due / |r James Gleick ; |t Scientist at work : Andrew Wiles, math whiz who battled 350-year-old problem / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Scientist at work : Leonard Adleman, hitting the high spots of computer theory / |r Gina Kolata ; |t Dr. Kurt Gödel, 71, mathematician / |r Peter B. Flint ; |t Genius or gibberish? The strange world of the math crank / |r George Johnson.

|a Presents a selection from the archives of the New York newspaper of its writings on mathematics from 1892 to 2010, covering such topics as chaos theory, statistics, cryptography, and computers.

|a Mathematics.

|a Kolata, Gina Bari, |d 1948- |e editor.

|a New York times.

|a QA7

|a Math Library |b MARX LIBRARY >> QA7 .N45 2013 (LC)|DELIM|12154391

|a 2014-08-12T15:53:47.000Z