Keith Ball

Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, & Other Mathematical Explorations

• Author(s): Keith Ball

• Categories: Mathematics

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2003
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• Publisher: Princeton University Press

How does mathematics enable us to send pictures from space back to Earth? Where does the bell-shaped curve come from? Why do you need only 23 people in a room for a 50/50 chance of two of them sharing the same birthday? In Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, and Other Mathematical Explorations, Keith Ball highlights how ideas, mostly from pure math, can answer these questions and many more. Drawing on areas of mathematics from probability theory, number theory, and geometry, he explores a wide range of concepts, some more light-hearted, others central to the development of the field and used daily by mathematicians, physicists, and engineers. Each of the book's ten chapters begins by outlining...

The Law Reports

• Author(s): George Wirgman Hemming

• Categories: Law reports, digests, etc

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1887
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Law Reports

• Author(s): Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Chancery Division

• Categories: Bankruptcy

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1887
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Law Times Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the Court of Appeal ... [new Series].

• Categories: Law reports, digests, etc

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1878
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

• Author(s): Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1845
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• Publisher: Unknown

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