Now the best-selling author of "The Mathematical Tourist" and "Islands of Truth" takes readers on an enlightening journey into the thrilling world of randomness in mathematics. Along the way, he explores how abstract mathematics can yield solutions to real-world problems and generate precise predictions and provides a connoisseur's selection of new and important theories and discoveries in everyday life. Includes 50 illustrations, including 8 pages of striking color images.
- ISBN10 0471295876
- ISBN13 9780471295877
- Publish Date 22 September 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 November 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English