The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty
Explores how mathematics can explain such events as the O.J. Simpson verdict and the errors undermining the infamous "Bell Curve," and introduces a little-known woman without whom the theory of relativity never would have worked
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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.
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