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Figuring It Out

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The Dinner Table Algorithm
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    Chapter 2 Cutting the Christmas Cake
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    Chapter 3 Oranges and Computers
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    Chapter 4 When Two and Two Don’t Make Four
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    Chapter 5 Getting More Intelligent Every Day
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    Chapter 6 The Other Lane Always Goes Faster
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    Chapter 7 Shoelaces and Neckties
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    Chapter 8 Number Puzzles
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    Chapter 9 Tossing a Coin
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    Chapter 10 The Switch
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    Chapter 11 Eubulides, The Heap and The Euro
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    Chapter 12 How GPS Works
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    Chapter 13 Gear Wheels
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    Chapter 14 February 29
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    Chapter 15 The Nonius Scale
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    Chapter 16 Pedro Nunes’ Map
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    Chapter 17 Lighthouse Geometry
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    Chapter 18 Asteroids and Least Squares
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    Chapter 19 The Useful Man and the Genius
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    Chapter 20 Alice and Bob 1
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    Chapter 21 Inviolate Cybersecrets
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    Chapter 22 Quantum Cryptography
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    Chapter 23 The FBI Wavelet
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    Chapter 24 The Enigma Machine
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    Chapter 25 The Vitruvian Man
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    Chapter 26 The Golden Number
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    Chapter 27 The Geometry of A4 Paper Sizes
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    Chapter 28 The Strange Worlds of Escher
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    Chapter 29 Escher and the Möbius Strip
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    Chapter 30 Picasso, Einstein and the Fourth Dimension
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    Chapter 31 Pollock’s Fractals
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    Chapter 32 Voronoi Diagrams
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    Chapter 33 The Platonic Solids
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    Chapter 34 Pythagorean Mosquitoes
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    Chapter 35 The Most Beautiful of All
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    Chapter 36 The Power of Math
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    Chapter 37 Doubts in the Realm of Certainty
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    Chapter 38 When Chance Enhances Reliability
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    Chapter 39 The Difficulty of Chance
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    Chapter 40 Conjectures and Proofs
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    Chapter 41 Mr. Benford
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    Chapter 42 Financial Fractals
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    Chapter 43 Turing’s Test
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    Chapter 44 DNA Computers
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    Chapter 45 Magical Multiplication
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    Chapter 46 π Day
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    Chapter 47 The Best Job in the World
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    Chapter 48 Electoral Paradoxes
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    Chapter 49 The Melon Paradox
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    Chapter 50 The Cupcake Paradox
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    Chapter 51 Infinity
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    Chapter 52 Unfair Games
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    Chapter 53 Monsieur Bertrand
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    Chapter 54 Boy or Girl?
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    Chapter 55 A Puzzle for Christmas
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    Chapter 56 Crisis Time for Easter Eggs
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Title
Figuring It Out
Published by
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, October 2010
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-04833-3
ISBNs
978-3-64-204832-6, 978-3-64-204833-3
Authors

Crato, Nuno

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Unknown 6 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 1 17%
Student > Master 1 17%
Unknown 4 67%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 1 17%
Engineering 1 17%
Unknown 4 67%