Ebook: Mathematical footprints: discovering mathematics everywhere

Early mathematics artifacts -- The very pervasive golden ration -- Seeing is not believing -- Mathematics and your money -- Mathematics, the framework of archetecture -- Hyperspace and beyond -- Mathematics and cubism -- Le grande arche -- The mathematical Pandora's box -- Mathematics and the body -- Will computers take the quantum leap -- Mathematics, Guggenheim Bilbao and Frank Gehry -- The Pythagorean theorem, the survivor -- Rings, helices and dolphins -- The art of Claude Monet -- How knots are tied to mathematics -- Chinese remainder theorem, a problem from the past -- Solitons -- Mathematics of weather forecasting -- Mathematics and the architecture of Arata Isozaki -- Fuzzy numbers -- Mathematics and the art of Alexander Calder -- Wavelets -- The longitude problem -- Mathematics is in the creases -- Mathematics and nature's formations -- Mathematics and the architecture of the pyramids -- Cellular automata, pixels of life -- Art-manifeste -- Mathematics finds its way around mazes -- Meter is a meter is a meter, or is it -- Molecular computers -- A mathematical look at time -- The universe, what's with it anyway -- Numbers help nail errors -- Mathematics and the art of Tony Robbin -- Have we heard the last of Fermat's last theorem -- Mathematics and the game of life -- Mathematics and the architecture of SFMOMA -- Music, matter and mathematics -- Nanotechnology is big stuff -- Soft computing -- It's crystal clear, or is it, quasicrystals and Penrose tiles -- Smart machines.;MATHEMATICAL FOOTPRINTS takes a creative look at the role mathematics has played since prehistoric times, and will play in the future, and uncovers mathematics where you least expect to find it from its many uses in medicine, the sciences, and its appearance in art to its patterns in nature and its central role in the development of computers. Pappas presents mathematical ideas in a readable non-threatening manner. MATHEMATICAL FOOTPRINTS is another gem by the creator of THE MATHEMATICS CALENDAR and author of THE JOY OF MATHEMATICS. "Pappas's books have been gold mines of mathematical ent.