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Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe by Ian Stewart
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the earth and the planets to the galaxy and the universe. He describes how galaxies, stars and planets form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's going to end. He considers parallel universes, fine-tuning of the cosmos, wheth ...Show more
Do Dice Play God? - The Mathematics of Uncertainty by Ian Stewart
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Professor Ian Stewart explores the development and limits of the mathematics that tame uncertainty.
Nature's Numbers - Discovering Order and Pattern in the Universe by Ian Stewart
$22.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Science Masters Ser.
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 ...Show more
The Beauty of Numbers in Nature - Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World by Ian Stewart
$29.99 AUD
Category: Natural History
From a zebra's stripes to a spider's web: an engaging examination of patterns in nature and the mathematics that underlie them. From a zebra's stripes to a spider's web, from sand dunes to snowflakes, nature is full of patterns underlaid by mathematical principles. In The Beauty of Numbers in Nature, Ia ...Show more
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