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In this vibrant work, which is ideal for teaching and learning, Apoorva Khare and Anna Lachowska explain the mathematics essential for understanding and appreciating our quantitative world. They show with examples that mathematics is a key tool in the creation and appreciation of art, music, and literature, not just science and technology. The book covers basic mathematical topics from logarithms to statistics, but the authors eschew mundane finance and probability problems. Instead, they explain how modular arithmetic helps keep our online transactions safe, how logarithms justify the twelve-tone scale commonly used in music, and how deep space probe transmissions are similar to medieval knights. Ideal for undergraduate coursework in introductory mathematics and requiring no knowledge of calculus, Khare and Lachowska's enlightening mathematics tour will appeal to a wide audience.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Mathematics

• Full title: Beautiful, Simple, Exact, Crazy
• Subtitle: Mathematics in the Real World
• Author: Apoorva Khare, Anna Lachowska
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• EAN: 9780300190892
• ISBN: 0300190891
• ID: 09232116
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Weight: 680 g
• Dimensions: 159 × 235 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. November 2015

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