The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty

by: K. C. Cole (Author)

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Publication Date: 1998/1/15

Language: English

Print Length: 224 pages

ISBN-10: 9780151003235

ISBN-13: 9780151003235

Book Description

Filled with “a thousand fascinating facts and shrewd observations (Martin Gardner, Los Angeles Times), this “beguiling and lucid book” (San Francisco Chronicle) demonstrates how the truth and beauty of everything, from relativity to rainbows, is all in the numbers. Line drawings.

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Filled with “a thousand fascinating facts and shrewd observations (Martin Gardner, Los Angeles Times), this “beguiling and lucid book” (San Francisco Chronicle) demonstrates how the truth and beauty of everything, from relativity to rainbows, is all in the numbers. Line drawings.