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Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science

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ISBN-10: 0060926716

ISBN-13: 9780060926717

Edition: 2015

Authors: Michael S. Schneider

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The Universe May Be a Mystery, But It's No Secret Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture. This is a new view of mathematics, not the one we learned at school but a comprehensive guide to the patterns that recur through the universe and underlie human affairs. A Beginner's Guide to Constructing, the Universe shows you: Why cans, pizza, and manhole covers are round. Why one and two weren't considered…    
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/29/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.38" wide x 9.25" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 1.144