Math Bytes : : Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing / / Tim P. Chartier.
This book provides a fun, hands-on approach to learning how mathematics and computing relate to the world around us and help us to better understand it. How can reposting on Twitter kill a movie's opening weekend? How can you use mathematics to find your celebrity look-alike? What is Homer Simp...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (152 p.) :; 89 color illus. 19 halftones. 20 line illus. 10 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Your First Byte
- 2. Deceiving Arithmetic
- 3. Two By Two
- 4. Infinite Detail
- 5 Plot the Course
- 6. Doodling Into a Labyrinth
- 7. Obama-Cize Yourself
- 8. Painting with M&Ms
- 9. Distorting Reality
- 10. A Pretty Mathematical Face
- 11. March Mathness
- 12. Ranking a Googol of Bits
- 13. A Byte to Go
- 14. Up to the Challenge
- Bibliography
- Index
- Image Credits