The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity

基本信息

Format Paperback | 336 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 23mm | 326g

Publication date 06 Mar 2014

Publisher ATLANTIC BOOKS

Language English

Edition Statement Main

Illustrations note 16pp b/w line drawings

ISBN10 1848878451

ISBN13 9781848878457

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在《x的奇幻之旅》中，世界*数学家、《纽约时报》专栏作者史蒂夫·斯托加茨，将引领我们踏上一段领略最伟大的数学思想的赏心悦目之旅。沿途你会看到数学如何与文学、哲学、法律、医学、艺术、商业彼此交融，甚至流行文化也能以我们意想不到的方式与数学共舞。辛普森到底有没有谋杀他的前妻？多长时间、以何种方式翻转你的床垫才会让它的磨损率*小？谷歌搜索引擎是如何找到你想要的网页的？在步入婚姻殿堂之前，你应该和多少位异性约会？不管你是否相信，数学在回答这些问题时，都扮演着至关重要的角色！

在这段从企鹅吃鱼到无穷大的数学之旅中，每一章都是一道美丽的“风景”：斑马身上黑白条纹中的正弦波；美国《独立宣言》中欧几里得几何定理的身影；流星雨划过夜空时留下的美丽抛物线；罗密欧和朱丽叶爱情悲剧背后的微积分方程式；拆穿小布什减税计划谎言的长尾分布……

不管你是否喜欢数学、了解数学，每个人的生活却都离不开数学，相信读完这本启迪智慧又妙趣横生的书后，不少人会从此爱上数学，重新发现和欣赏数学之美，成为“数学发烧友”。

Award-winning Steven Strogatz, one of the foremost popularisers of maths, has written a witty and fascinating account of maths' most compelling ideas and how, so often, they are an integral part of everyday life.

Maths is everywhere, often where we don't even realise. Award-winning professor Steven Strogatz acts as our guide as he takes us on a tour of numbers that - unbeknownst to the unitiated - connect pop culture, literature, art, philosophy, current affairs, business and even every day life. In The Joy of X, Strogatz explains the great ideas of maths - from negative numbers to calculus, fat tails to infinity - with clarity, wit and insight. He is the maths teacher you never had and this book is perfect for the smart and curious, the expert and the beginner.

作者简介

史蒂夫·斯托加茨现为康奈尔大学应用数学系名誉教授，是一位颇有声望的教师，也是世界上观点被引用最多的数学家之一。他经常担任美国国家公共广播电台“广播实验室”栏目的嘉宾，还为《纽约时报》撰写“数学的要素”在线专栏，奠定了本书的写作基础。

Steven Strogatz is the professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University. A renowned teacher, and one of the world's most highly-cited mathematicians, he received MIT's E.M. Baker Award, the only institute-wide teaching prize selected solely by students. He is the author of several textbooks, as well as the bestseller Sync and The Calculus of Friendship. He lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife Carole and their two daughters.