Pine cones. Stock-market quotations. Sunflowers. Classical architecture. Reproduction of bees. Roman poetry. What do they have in common? In one way or another, these and many more creations of nature ...
Two veteran math educators team up to produce a lighthearted, informal look at "the thing behind the symbol"%E2%80%94the history and weirdness of numbers. Posamentier ...
Mathematical truths are often born of the conflict between order and disorder. Mathematicians discover patterns, and, to better understand the mysterious forces at play, they look for countervailing ...