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Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematical Imagination (Science Masters)
Nature's Numbers The Unreal Reality of Mathematical Imagination - Science Masters
Author: Ian Stewart
Why 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 st...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465072736
ISBN-10: 0465072739
Publication Date: 7/1995
Pages: 164
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3.9 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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SteveTheDM avatar reviewed Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematical Imagination (Science Masters) on + 204 more book reviews
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So this book is called "Nature's Numbers," but it's really more about nature's patterns than anything else. Essentially what we have here is a quick introduction into the importance of modern mathematics -- in particular chaos theory, symmetry, and pattern analysis -- in the study of biological and physical science.

The book is a quick read, aimed at people who want a quick understanding of the topic without having to actually get into the nitty gritty details. Still, it left me only mildly interested.

3 of 5 stars.
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