Download or read book Life By the Numbers written by Keith Devlin and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999-03-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do leopards grow spots when tigers grow stripes? Is the universe round, square, or some other shape? How do the dimples in a golf ball give it greater lift? Is there such a thing as a public mood? If so, how can we accurately take its pulse? Only one tool of the human mind has the power and versatility to answer so many questions about our world—mathematics. Far from a musty set of equations and proofs, mathematics is a vital and creative way of thinking and seeing. It is the most powerful means we have of exploring our world and how it works, from the darkest depths of the oceans to the faintest glimmers of far-away galaxies, and from the aerodynamics of figure-skating jumps to the shadows of the fourth dimension. In this captivating companion to the landmark PBS series Life by the Numbers, acclaimed author Keith Devlin reveals the astonishing range of creative and powerful ways in which scientists, artists, athletes, medical researchers, and many others are using mathematics to explore our world and to enhance our lives. On this exhilarating tour you will explore deep-sea volcanoes with oceanographer Dawn Wright, go behind the scenes of blockbuster movies with special-effects designer Doug Trumbull, and probe the strange lives of viruses with microbiologist Sylvia Spengler. Listen to astronomer Robert Kirshner describe how he is charting the curve of space; discover how biologist Mike Labarbara visualizes the way a Tyrannosaurus rex carried its massive frame; and, along with brain researcher Brad Hatfield, peer into the mind of an Olympic markswoman at the moment she takes a shot. Glimpse a future of wearable computers and silicon "butlers" with computer scientist Pattie Maes, and watch a lilac come to life on screen with "computer botanist" Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully written, Life by the Numbers brings mathematical exploration and invention to life through the stories of some of the most creative practitioners of the art. It imparts an appreciation of the ingenuity and the sheer fun of seeing our world through mathematical eyes.
Download or read book The Life Changing Magic of Numbers written by Bobby Seagull and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you found maths lessons at school irrelevant and boring, that’s because you didn’t have a teacher like Bobby Seagull. ***As seen on Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain*** Long before his rise to cult fandom on University Challenge, Bobby Seagull was obsessed with numbers. They were the keys that unlocked the randomness of football results, the beauty of art and the best way to get things done. In his absorbing book, Bobby tells the story of his life through numbers and shows the incredible ways maths can make sense of the world around us. From magic shows to rap lyrics, from hobbies to outer space, from fitness to food – Bobby’s infectious enthusiasm for numbers will change how you think about almost everything. Told through fascinating stories and insights from Bobby’s life, and with head-scratching puzzles in every chapter, you’ll never look at numbers the same way again.
Download or read book Thinking In Numbers written by Daniel Tammet and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The irresistibly engaging book that "enlarges one's wonder at Tammet's mind and his all-embracing vision of the world as grounded in numbers" (Oliver Sacks, MD). Thinking in Numbers is the book that Daniel Tammet, mathematical savant and bestselling author, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes, everyday examples, and ruminations on history, literature, and more, Tammet allows us to share his unique insights and delight in the way numbers, fractions, and equations underpin all our lives. Inspired variously by the complexity of snowflakes, Anne Boleyn's eleven fingers, and his many siblings, Tammet explores questions such as why time seems to speed up as we age, whether there is such a thing as an average person, and how we can make sense of those we love. His provocative and inspiring new book will change the way you think about math and fire your imagination to view the world with fresh eyes.
Download or read book Your Life in Numbers Modeling Society Through Data written by Pablo Jensen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 300 years ago, Isaac Newton created a mathematical model of the solar system that predicted the existence of a yet unknown planet: Neptune. Today, driven by the digital revolution, modern scientists are creating complex models of society itself to shed light on topics as far-ranging as epidemic outbreaks and economic growth. But how do these scientists gather and interpret their data? How accurate are their models? Can we trust the numbers? With a rare background in physics, economics and sociology, the author is able to present an insider’s view of the strengths, weaknesses and dangers of transforming our lives into numbers. After reading this book, you’ll understand how different numerical models work and how they are used in practice. The author begins by exploring several simple, easy-to-understand models that form the basis for more complex simulations. What follows is an exploration of the myriad ways that models have come to describe and define our world, from epidemiology and climate change to urban planning and the world chess championship. Highly engaging and nontechnical, this book will appeal to any readers interested in understanding the links between data and society and how our lives are being increasingly captured in numbers.
Download or read book Bringing Numbers to Life written by John Armitage and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Size Matters: How Visual Analytics Will Bring Numbers to Life The increasing volume of quantitative data in modern communication is calling for more effective visualization design techniques to improve clarity and decision-making. The LAVA visual analytic design language proposes a new vernacular to take big data to big audiences. Big Data. The Internet of Things. Cloud Computing. Predictive Analytics. Any trip through today's information technology news will surely include some of these terms. Just as the Web and social media allow more people and institutions to connect with each other to exchange sentiment and ideas, a parallel system exists to do the same thing with quantitative facts. An ever-more automated array of sensors and monitors embedded in our businesses, governments, physical infrastructures, vehicles, the environment, and even our bodies, are being added to the more traditional practice of manual observation and data entry in the effort to record and store the daily up-and-down states of stuff we care about. The variables are called Measures, and include things like sales, windspeed, steps taken, or heart rate. The things being measured are called Entities, such as a car model, an airport, your family, or your heart. Combining Measures with Entities creates Metrics - Sales at a cash register or of a car model, windspeed at the airport, steps taken by your family today, your resting heart rate. Metrics are how we understand quantitative data from the world around us. Analytics is the science of working with metrics to make better, more informed decisions in our work and lives. Visual Analytics is the expression of metrics geometrically - with lines and shapes versus with numbers in spreadsheets - so as to make them easier to understand and interpret. As more metrics are made available and relevant to more people, presenting them visually is a key aspect of ensuring that audiences find them legible - or clear and able to be read - and readable - or enticing and likely to be read. While these dual masters of function and elegance are present in all design practice, visual analytics require a balance skewed in favor of clarity, efficiency, mathematical precision, and measureable audience cognition.
Download or read book Trust in Numbers written by Theodore M. Porter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.
Download or read book Living by Numbers written by Steven Connor and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas about numbers, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do. In Living by Numbers, Steven Connor explores the many ways in which we live in, and by, a world of numbers. Connor homes in on the unsuspected weirdness of the number one, the links between horror, counting and the uncountable, and the close associations of numbers and death. He considers the way we make sense of crowds, swarms, masses and multitudes, and demonstrates the work of calculation that is always present in poems, jokes, laughter and pleasure. He shows how we use numbers to adjust ourselves to chance and uncertainty, examines the pressure of numbers in the experience of music, explains how they exert their force in painting, and reveals the many different ways in which numbers and quantities have taken visual form in diagrams, charts and infographics. Against the lazy and conventional assumption that human life needs to be defended against the alien and malign power of numbers, this book illustrates how essential the feeling for numbers is in all aspects of contemporary existence, arguing that no creativity or invention is in fact possible without numbers. Living by Numbers opens up for the first time the richness, variety and subtlety of how we do things with numbers and, just as importantly, how they do things with us. --
Download or read book One to Nine The Inner Life of Numbers written by Andrew Hodges and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-05-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Lynne Truss did for grammar in Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Andrew Hodges now does for mathematics. Andrew Hodges, one of Britain’s leading biographers and mathematical writers, brings numbers to three-dimensional life in this delightful and illuminating volume, filled with illustrations, which makes even the most challenging math problems accessible to the layperson. Inspired by millennia of human attempts to figure things out, this pithy book, which tackles mathematical conundrums from the ancient Greeks to superstring theory, finds a new twist to everything from musical harmony to code breaking, from the chemistry of sunflowers to the mystery of magic squares. Starting with the puzzle of defining unity, and ending with the recurring nines of infinite decimals, Hodges tells a story that takes in quantum physics, cosmology, climate change, and the origin of the computer. Hodges has written a classic work, at once playful but satisfyingly instructional, which will be ideal for the math aficionado and the Sudoku addict as well as for the life of the party.
Download or read book Numbers and You A Numerology Guide for Everyday Living written by Lloyd Strayhorn and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harness the power of numbers! Numerology has been around since the sixth century B.C. and has been used throughout the ages to reveal the secrets of personality . . . to determine the numerical vibrations surrounding different aspects of life . . . and to select the key numbers in your life that will lead to happiness and prosperity. If you can count on your fingers, you can use this ancient system to discover: • What is the purpose of your life? • Which day is your sexuality highest? • Which lottery numbers should you choose? • When is the best time to make decisions? • What cities are the best for you to live in? • How can you tell if someone's right for you? Featuring numerological profiles of famous people and trends!
Download or read book The Social Life of Numbers written by Gary Urton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unraveling all the mysteries of the khipu--the knotted string device used by the Inka to record both statistical data and narrative accounts of myths, histories, and genealogies--will require an understanding of how number values and relations may have been used to encode information on social, familial, and political relationships and structures. This is the problem Gary Urton tackles in his pathfinding study of the origin, meaning, and significance of numbers and the philosophical principles underlying the practice of arithmetic among Quechua-speaking peoples of the Andes. Based on fieldwork in communities around Sucre, in south-central Bolivia, Urton argues that the origin and meaning of numbers were and are conceived of by Quechua-speaking peoples in ways similar to their ideas about, and formulations of, gender, age, and social relations. He also demonstrates that their practice of arithmetic is based on a well-articulated body of philosophical principles and values that reflects a continuous attempt to maintain balance, harmony, and equilibrium in the material, social, and moral spheres of community life.
Download or read book Exploring Numerology written by Shirley Lawrence and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By following the easy directions in this book, you will learn more about yourself than you ever believed possible. This book will give you the answers you have been looking for about your life's path, karmic lessons in this life, inner guidance, your personality, and what your soul desires. The book gives you the keys you need to unlock your personal information. You will be able to unlock secrets for your friends and family, also. Shirley makes it a point to not only teach you how to use numerology but to uncover the answers as to why it works.
Download or read book The Numbers of Life written by Kevin Quinn Avery and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easily the most comprehensive and detailed guide to practical and theoretical numerology on the market, Kevin Quinn Avery's The Numbers of Life stands alone as the definitive work in its field. Drawing on a long and storied career advising New York's celebrities, intelligentsia, and politicians, as well as years of professional study in the areas of astronumerology, astrology, and kabala, Avery has neatly compiled a lifetime of knowledge in this one useful volume. If you are just beginning to dip your toes into the waters of numerology or if you are a seasoned expert, Avery's wisdom is guaranteed to help as you endeavor to derive meaning from the numbers that surround you. The Numbers of Life combines practical instruction with years of collected wisdom about the nature of numerology, astrology, and the occult. Replete with charts and figures about personality, habits, and soul urge, this book will help you to deepen your own understanding of yourself and the world around you. Equipped with knowledge about the details of your future, you can prepare to meet your destiny with positivity and strength.
Download or read book Mark Gruner s Numbers of Life written by Mark Gruner and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Live Your Life by the Numbers written by Sylvia E. Di Pietro and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the magic of numbers! Discover the numbers in your name and birthdate that influence your destiny and life. In this exciting guidebook, the study of numerology, followed by ancient philosophers and mystics throughout the ages becomes clear and simple. You can: Discover your personal life path; Gain insight into the quality of your lover; Learn how to pick your lucky numbers and learn how to spot golden opportunities. Now available to the modern reader is a fascinating and modern guilde to the ancient study of numerology. Easy to read, it teaches the meaning of numbers and how to use them in all aspects of your life.
Download or read book Numerology Deciphered written by Lisa Lazuli and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are interested in astrology, numerology, palm reading, psychic readings, clairvoyance etc then you are already aware that life is not one big coincidence, but a series of patterns and puzzles from which we can decipher clues as to our unique potentials and destiny. As many of you know I write books on astrology, however numerology is the perfect complement to astrology in terms of gaining an insight into your personality and life path. Numerology is a simple way of gaining insights into yourself and others via those most fundamental letters and numbers connected to you ie your name and date of birth. The date of birth is key as it is the one constant in life: our name and place we live changes, but as the compass always points North, our date of birth is fixed and fundamental to who we are. The are number associations which you can use to calculate your numbers from your name and derive meaning from that. The purpose of this book is to dive right into numerology with a hands on guide to how to calculate your numbers and what they mean. This is an ideal introduction, but it is not just an introduction but full of revealing information. We will mainly be looking at the numbers 1-9 and the master numbers 11 and 22, but I will go over the exact meanings of the compound numbers in Book 2.
Download or read book Numerology written by William Field and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a combination of many systems, traditions, and beliefs, learn what numbers are significant for you and what they say about your personality, your life, and your future.
Download or read book Numbers Can Change Your Life written by Baldev Bhatia and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NUMBER CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFEKNOW YOUR LUCKY NUMBERABOUT THE BOOKNumbers Can Change Your Life - Know Your Lucky Number, deals with science of numbers. It is a cosmic Science, which reveals, the hidden mysteries of numbers. Its origin can be traced to earlier times, when a person first began to identify various causes, in his immediate behavior, environment, and his nature of controlling over his temperament. Research and deep studies done in the past have revealed that every number has a different characteristic and has different occult significance with very specific power. This power of difference n numbers has reflected not only a distinctive character on the basis of their qualities, with the cosmic force, and influencing the laws of nature by governing them in different ways.The commencement begins with number one, indicating a powerful dynamic force, and great abilities over everything. These are followed by number 2, 3, 4 and 0. This zero number has not been assigned any distinct role, but in association with other numbers it does play an important part. As anything multiplied by zero becomes zero. There are various types of numbers. These are called Birth Numbers (the prime number), the lucky Numbers, the Year Numbers and the Name Numbers. As such there are also the House Numbers, the Vehicle numbers, your Telephone Numbers etc. Now these different numbers of an individual when vibrates and influences well, life becomes much more interesting and fruitful for the person. Name number is the number obtained from the addition of all the alphabets in our name, which is further divided into various other types of numbers such as, Personality Number and Destiny Number and Ambition Number. Number 7 are great visualizers, thinkers and philosophers. Number 9 is highly suitable for politics as it confers qualities of aggressive approach dynamism, and good organization capacity.It often makes them courageous and fearless. Though number 9 natives tend to face difficulties and hassles initially but later on, by their own persistent and hard work, they can ensure success and often hit the target and become head-liners. Numbers 1 and 9 are more stable, strong than number 7. People with number 7 are more comfortable with regards to their religion and their religious and spiritual matter and have the capability of preserving and strengthening their cultural heritage, but on the face of it, this number is full of uncertainties, tribulations, dirty and foul play. Whereas, number 7 is good on the spiritual world, number 9 happens to be a top number on the materialistic world and is good for great success on the political front. Number 9 has qualities of diplomacy, tact, ability to take the masses which is inbuilt in them, among the weaker sections of society. Number 9 people feel restless when their leadership is questioned but once their leadership is well established, they march easily to their road to victory.When any one changes his name, a grand new set of cosmic vibrations start influencing his luck and fortune. These have tremendous impact on all aspects of his life. Whereas it is often said, that when a lady changes, her first name, after her marriage her style life and fortune too takes a new turn. In many circumstances and communities, when a man is suffering and is not in perfect health or is ill and is not good at responding to treatment, he is advised to change his name and that is changed for his speedy recovery and with this the new vibrations are set in him to respond to a more positive and fast manner.
