Umfang:
1 online resource (679 pages)
,
62 illustrations
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780429151385
Inhalt:
part 1 Part I: Mathematics Is Connected to Everything -- chapter 1 Earth’s Climate and Some Basic Principles -- chapter 2 Economic Instability: Ongoing Causes -- chapter 3 What Is Mathematics? More Basics -- chapter 4 We All Soak in a Synthetic Chemical Soup -- chapter 5 Mathematics: Food, Soil, Water, Air, Free Speech -- chapter 6 Mathematics and Energy -- chapter 7 The Brower–Cousteau Model of the Earth -- chapter 8 Fuzzy Logic, Sharp Logic, Frames, and Bigger Pictures -- chapter 9 The Dunbar Number, Political Power, Public Relations, and Fear: Can Humans Act Sustainably? -- part 2 Part II: Math and Nature: The Nature of Math -- chapter 10 One Pattern Viewed via Geometry and Numbers: Mathese -- chapter 11 Axioms and Atoms -- chapter 12 Five More Axioms for Numbers -- chapter 13 What Patterns Can Be Deduced in Our Deductive System? -- part 3 Part III: One of the Oldest Mathematical Patterns -- chapter 14 A Short Story and Some Numberless Mathematics -- chapter 15 A Set of Social Rules for the Warlpiri People -- part 4 Part IV: Counting -- chapter 16 Counting Exactly -- chapter 17 Equivalence Relations and Counting -- part 5 Part V: Box Models: Population, Money, Recycling -- chapter 18 Some Population Numbers -- chapter 19 Basic Mathematical Patterns in Population Growth -- chapter 20 Box Models: Money, Recycling, Epidemics -- part 6 Part VI: Chance: Health, Surveillance, Spies, and Voting -- chapter 21 Chance: Health and News -- chapter 22 Surveillance, Spies, Snitches, Loss of Privacy, and Life -- chapter 23 Identity Theft, Encryption, Torture, Planespotting -- chapter 24 Voting in the 21st Century -- part 7 Part VII: Economics -- chapter 25 What Exactly Is Economics? -- chapter 26 Mathematical Concepts and Economics -- chapter 27 The Concept of Money -- chapter 28 Distributed vs. Centralized Control and Decision Making -- chapter 29 Energy and Thermodynamics -- chapter 30 The Financial Mathematics of Loans, Debts, and Compound Interest -- part 8 Part VIII: Media Literacy -- chapter 31 Information Flow in the 21st Century -- chapter 32 Media Literacy: Censorship and Propaganda.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781439834725
Sprache:
Englisch
