Coincidences, Chaos And All That Math Jazz

Making Light of Weighty Ideas Improbable? Yes. Impossible? No. An irreverent, entertaining, readable, and completely understandable explanation of lofty mathema... » 

Making Light of Weighty Ideas Improbable? Yes. Impossible? No. An irreverent, entertaining, readable, and completely understandable explanation of lofty mathematical ideas. By starting in the familiar world and using a few simple steps of imagination this book sneaks up on weighty mathematical ideas. The spirals on a pineapple quickly lead to the famous Fibonacci numbers and the alluring Golden Ratio and from there to aesthetic forms in nature, art, and music. The edge of a twisted strip of paper leads to an image of the shape of the universe. These and other foreign and familiar mysteries share two features: they appear inexplicable and they are all explained with great humor and clarity in this book. «