Book:Ian Stewart/Nature's Numbers: Discovering Order and Pattern in the Universe

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Ian Stewart: Nature's Numbers: Discovering Order and Pattern in the Universe

Published $\text {1995}$, Weidenfeld & Nicolson


Contents

Prologue: The Virtual Unreality Machine
$1$ The Natural Order
$2$ What Mathematics Is For
$3$ What Mathematics Is About
$4$ The Constants of Change
$5$ From Violins to Videos
$6$ Broken Symmetry
$7$ The Rhythm of Life
$8$ Do Dice Play God?
$9$ Drops, Dynamics, and Daisies
Epilogue: Morphomatics
Further Reading
Index