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Chargement... Islands of Truth: A Mathematical Mystery Cruise (édition 1991)par Ivars Peterson
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Ivars Peterson has come up with another itinerary of Mathland - where the habitat is mysterious and the inhabitants fascinating. He explores uncharted islands, introducing strange vibrations in the shadows of chaos, new twists in knot physics, and the straight side of circles. The tour is enjoyable to experienced travellers and first-time tourists alike. Peterson, a journalist with Science News, makes the arcane intelligible by interpreting mathematics into engaging prose. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Math is such a hard subject to put into enjoyable narrative that I tend to be relieved when I realize I'm already 100 pages into a math book and don't feel like putting it back on the shelf. Peterson's narrative is engaging and should provide a comfortable realm in which to explore his examples of applied and advanced math studies. While the book itself does contain some discussion of advanced math, the author is careful to offer the reader solid analogies and models to help understand some of the concepts. The book is heavily peppered with graphics, charts, models, and other visual representations of the subjects, which helps enormously in visualizing what the author describes.
This book was written in 1990, so many of the discussions regarding computers and their function in math (generally the last 1/3 or so) are greatly out of date. However, all is not lost since Peterson's underlying points are often untouched by such concerns. Just keep that in mind as you read about things that aren't yet possible on computers, or feats which have surely been bested, such as disussion of Deep Thought (chess playing computer Deep Thought eventually gave way to Deep Blue which scored a highly controversial victory over master and champion Kasparov in 1997 before being dismantled). All in all, well worth a read for most any level of math reader or general science reader. Four stars. ( )