Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing

by Tim Chartier

Book Overview

An inviting collection of fun, hands-on applications in mathematics and computing This book provides a fun, hands-on approach to learning how mathematics and computing relate to the world around us and help us to better understand it. How can reposting on Twitter kill a movie's opening weekend? How can you use mathematics to find your celebrity look-alike? What is Homer Simpson's method for disproving Fermat's Last Theorem? Each topic in this refreshingly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691160600
• ISBN13: 9780691160603
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.5"