100 cose essenziali che non sapevate di non sapere. I meccanismi segreti nel mondo che ci circonda
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Perché, quando siamo in coda, la fila accanto è sempre più veloce della nostra? Qual è stata la partita più bizzarra della storia del calcio? Perché la forma del "giro della morte" sulle montagne russe non è perfettamente circolare? A questi e ad altri novantasette interrogativi risponde John D. Barrow con il suo stile brillante e rigoroso. Ogni singola domanda, infatti, diventa il pretesto, o meglio l'opportunità, per aprire una finestra su una dimensione del reale. Barrow riesce così a dimostrare che la matematica è la quintessenza stessa della realtà, poiché è alla base di ogni fenomeno naturale e di ogni aspetto della vita quotidiana, in modi a volte insospettati e stupefacenti.
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- Pagine: 284
- Data di uscita: 26-06-2012
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This collection of short, essay style chapters (100 chapters in 277 pages)is great for random reading (as I have done while eating breakfast). For those with an interest in sports, there are a great many interesting sports related math items, though the sports include those which are opaque to Ameri Leggi tutto
Tells us too little. In the 5-body gravitational problem, doesn't describe the motion or initial conditions of the small body, nor explain clearly what happens or why. Says the bodies would move apart with infinite speed by Newton's laws, and leaves it there. If you were going to say anything on thi Leggi tutto
I didn't know I didn't know it. Now I know that I didn't know it.
As a dedicated math hater and one who finds mathematical expressions of anything confusing and frustrating, I thought this might be a good book for me. It is quite fun and there are several items of interest among the 100 chapters. The book is written in small snippets - each chapter tackles a diffe Leggi tutto
Fun, enjoyable, and completely mistitled. These are little anecdotes and trivia with some mathematical twist, but one of the chapters is devoted to an anecdote about Igor Tamm solving a mathematical problem to establish his bona fides as a mathematician during the Russian Revolution -- great trivia, Leggi tutto
This book tries really hard to make mathematics interesting but even after compressing so many different short stories into brief chapters that cover a couple of pages each, I still couldn't find the topics covered to be at all interesting. There were a few nuggets in there that made it semi-worthwh Leggi tutto
As an engineer and fairly geeky person, I did know I did know a lot stuff in this book already. And I think even non-geeks would know some of these things. Or at least know they don't know it... Some of the explanations would have been easier to understand with a diagram, equation, or chart. And I th Leggi tutto
By all rights, I should have loved this book. I did not. It takes a special kind of writer to take an interesting topic and make a boring book out of it. And by "special," I mean, "bad." There you go.
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