Life by the numbers /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Devlin, Keith J.
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York : Wiley, �1998.
• Θέματα: Life by the numbers (Television program); Life by the numbers (�Emission de t�el�evision); Mathematics > Popular works.; Math�ematiques > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.; MATHEMATICS > Pre-Calculus.; MATHEMATICS > Reference.; MATHEMATICS > Essays.; Mathematics.; Wiskunde.; Toepassingen.; Electronic books.; Popular works.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: 1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps
• Μορφή: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
• Βιβλιογραφία: Includes bibliographical references (page 210) and index.
• ISBN: 0585304114; 9780585304113

Keith Devlin reveals the astonishing range of creative and powerful ways in which scientists, artists, athletes, medical researchers, and many others are using mathematics to explore our world and to enhance our lives. On this tour you will explore deep-sea volcanoes with oceanographer Dawn Wright, go behind the scenes of blockbuster movies with special-effects designer Doug Trumbull, and probe the strange lives of viruses with microbiologist Sylvia Spengler. Listen to astronomer Robert Kirshner describe how he is charting the curve of space; discover how biologist Mike Labarbara visualizes the way a Tyrannosaurus rex carried its massive frame; and, along with brain researcher Brad Hatfield, peer into the mind of an Olympic markswoman at the moment she takes a shot. Glimpse a future of wearable computers and silicon "butlers" with computer scientist Pattie Maes, and watch a lilac come to life on screen with "computer botanist" Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz.