Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality Of Mathematics
Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematics
By: Ian Stewart
The main purpose of this book is to show how many uncertain things that are involved in math. The chapters dive into the deeper meanings of what is meant by some of math's most complicated questions. The chapters are entitled; The Natural Order, What Mathematics Is For, What Mathematics Is About, The Constants of Change, From Violins to Videos, Broken Symmetry, The Rhythm of Life, Do Dice Play God? and Drops, Dynamics, and Daisies.
My favorite chapter is chapter 8, Do Dice Play God. I like this chapter the best because it talks about some of the more interesting questions in math. One of the topics that is discussed is something that we encounter almost everyday. The scenario that they is the fact that we walk down stairs almost everyday and never have a problem, and then comes the day that we twist our ankle. Another scenario that they give that hit close to home because we talked about it in class, was......
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