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"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
- Russell Baker
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| | The Universe and the Teacup:
The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty
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| | by K. C. Cole
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ZIN Product Number: 10031830
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Harcourt
ISBN: 0156006561
Release Date: Jan 10, 2001
Average Reader Review:    (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Mathematics is the breathtaking invention of ours that expands the reach of the human mind, puts us in touch with the tiniest particles of physics, and takes us to the outermost reaches of the cosmos. Perhaps because of its power and its abstraction, math scares many people. The Universe and the Teacup is a poetic and passionate book that reveals how the tools of mathematics get us to these fundamental truths and shows us why math need not be intimidating. Using the O. J. Simpson trial and the Lani Guinier affair, the bell curve and Emmy Noether, the nineteenth-century woman scientist whose work was essential for Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Cole shows how mathematics breaks the mind barrier.
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Layman's Guide to More Comprehensive Thinking About Religion and Science
-- Karen Ard, a teacher, geologist, from Chicago, January 5, 1999
Also Recommended: Nature's Destiny, How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe by Michael J Denton and God the Evidence, the Reconciliation of Faith & Reason in a Postsecular World by Patrick Glynn
A book about other books
-- Mike Trout, July 8, 1999
| |  | | | ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.....................................................IX
INTRODUCTION The Sentimental Fruits................................1
CHAPTER 1 What's Math Got to Do with It?............................5
PART I / WHERE MIND MEETS MATH
PART II / INTERPRETING THE PHYSICAL WORLD
PART III / INTERPRETING THE SOCIAL WORLD
PART IV / THE MATHEMATICS OF TRUTH
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY..............................................203 INDEX..............................................................209
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