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Mathematics and the Unexpected

Mathematics and the Unexpected

Paperback

General Mathematics

ISBN10: 0226199908
ISBN13: 9780226199900
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Jan 15 1990
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.29 Depth: 8.08
Language: English
Not the least unexpected thing about Mathematics and the Unexpected is that a real mathematician should write not just a literate work, but a literary one.-Ian Stewart, New Scientist

In this brief, elegant treatise, assessable to anyone who likes to think, Ivar Ekelund explains some philosophical implications of recent mathematics. He examines randomness, the geometry involved in making predictions, and why general trends are easy to project (it will snow in January) but particulars are practically impossible (it will snow from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the 21st).-Village Voice

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