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Index
Cover Title Contents Preface 1. The Art of Mathematics 2. How Many Guards Does an Art Gallery Need? 3. Aspects of Aspect Ratios 4. Vickrey Auctions 5. How to Sing in Tune 6. The Grand Jeté 7. Impossible Beliefs 8. Xerography – Déjà Vu All Over Again 9. Making Pages Look Nice 10. The Sound of Silence 11. A Most Unusual Cake Recipe 12. Designing Roller Coasters 13. The Beginning of the Universe Live on TV 14. Coping with Stress 15. Art Is Critical 16. Culinary Arts 17. Curved Triangles 18. The Days of the Week 19. The Case for Procrastination 20. Diamonds Are Forever 21. How Do You Doodle? 22. Why Are Eggs Egg-Shaped? 23. The El Greco Effect 24. Eureka 25. What the Eye Tells the Brain 26. Why the Flag of Nepal Is Unique 27. The Indian Rope Trick 28. An Image That Defeats the Eye 29. It’s Friday the Thirteenth Again 30. Strip Friezes 31. The Gherkin 32. Hedging Your Bets 33. Infinity at the Theater 34. Shedding Light on (and with) the Golden Ratio 35. Magic Squares 36. Mondrian’s Golden Rectangles 37. Monkey Business with Tiles 38. Pleasing Sounds 39. New Tiles from Old 40. The Nine-Degree Solution 41. Paper Sizes and a Book in the Hand 42. Penny Blacks and Penny Reds 43. Prime Time Cycles 44. If You Can’t Measure It, Why Not? 45. The Art of Nebulae 46. Reverse Auctions: Going Backward for Christmas 47. Ritual Geometry for the Gods 48. Prize Rosettes 49. Getting a Handle on Water Music: Singing in the Shower 50. Sizing Up Pictures 51. Triquetra 52. Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow 53. Some Perils of Pictures 54. Drinking with Socrates 55. Strange Formulae 56. Stylometry: Mathematics Rules the Waves 57. Getting It Together 58. When Time Has to Reckon with Space 59. How to Watch TV 60. Curvaceous Vase Profiles 61. All the Wallpapers in the Universe 62. The Art of War 63. Shattering Wineglasses 64. Let the Light Shine In 65. Special Triangles 66. Gnomons Are Golden 67. The Upside-down World of Scott Kim 68. How Many Words Did Shakespeare Know? 69. The Strange and Wonderful Law of First Digits 70. Organ Donor Preferences 71. Elliptical Whispering Galleries 72. The Tunnel of Eupalinos 73. A Time-and-Motion Study of the Great Pyramid 74. Picking Out Tigers in the Bushes 75. The Art of the Second Law 76. On a Clear Day . . . 77. Salvador Dalí and the Fourth Dimension 78. The Sound of Music 79. Chernoff’s Faces 80. The Man from Underground 81. Möbius and His Band 82. The Bells, the Bells 83. Following the Herd 84. Finger Counting 85. The Other Newton’s Hymn to the Infinite 86. Charles Dickens Was No Average Man; Florence Nightingale No Average Woman 87. Markov’s Literary Chains 88. From Free Will to the Russian Elections 89. Playing with Supreme Beings 90. The Drawbacks of Being a Know-all 91. Watching Paint Crack 92. Pop Music’s Magic Equation 93. Random Art 94. Jack the Dripper 95. The Bridge of Strings 96. Lacing Problems 97. Where to Stand to Look at Statues 98. The Hotel Infinity 99. The Color of Music 100. Shakespeare’s Monkeys: The New Generation Notes Also by John D. Barrow Copyright
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