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Nature's Numbers: Discovering Order and Pattern in the Universe (Science Masters)
Nature's Numbers Discovering Order and Pattern in the Universe - Science Masters
Author: Ian Stewart
Why do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but leopards have spots? Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence. Mathematics can look at a single snowflake and deduce the atomic geometry of its crystals; it can start with a violin ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780753805305
ISBN-10: 0753805308
Publication Date: 12/7/1998
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Book Type: Paperback
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