The Beauty Of Numbers In Nature: Mathematical Patterns And Principles
From The Natural World

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This is a marvellous book not only because of its abundance of colour pictures but also because of the knowledgeable text written in Stewart's pleasing style that is never pedantic always informative & smooth
- European Mathematical Society Think of a zebra's stripes the complexities of a spider's web the uniformity of desert dunes or the spirals in a sunflower head think of a snowflake The Beauty of Numbers in Nature shows how life on Earth forms the principles of mathematics Starting with the simplest patterns each chapter looks at a different kind of patterning system & the mathematics that underlies it In doing so the book also uncovers some universal patterns both in nature & man-made from the basic geometry of ancient Greece to the visually startling fractals that we are familiar with today Elegantly illustrated The Beauty of Numbers in Nature is an illuminating & engaging vision of how the apparently cold laws of mathematics find expression in the beauty of nature