I. Numbers that Fool You 1. When does 2+2=5? 2. The Gullible Ratio: Why The Golden Ratio Isn't So Golden 3. How Many Infinities Are There? 4. Dollo's Law: Read This Before Committing Accounting Fraud 5. Stupid Number Tricks 6. Improbable Probabilities II. Turning Geometry Upside Down 1. Squash Those Dice: Why a 7-Sided Die is Impossible, and Why It Isn't 2. Finite Shapes That Can't Be Painted 3. Wheels That Aren't Round 4. Will The Real 4th Dimension Please Stand Up? 5. Your Five-Dimensional Kitchen 6. 11-Dimensional Spaghetti Monsters III. The Mathematical Mind 1. Synesthesia: Do Numbers Have Colors? 2. The Rain Man's Secret 3. Does Perspective Really Exist, or Do We Imagine It? 4. Why Statisticians Stink at Statistics 5. Psychochonometry: Watching Your Life Accelerate IV. Math and Your Favorite Historical Figure 1. Charles Dickens and the Folly of Tally Sticks 2. Candide's Calculus 3. Unlistenable Mathematical Fun from Mozart and John Cage 4. Florence Nightingale, Math Geek 5. You Can't Fool Bill Gates V. Politically Mathematical 1. Thomas Jefferson and America's Founding Theorem 2. The Real Solution to Close Elections 3. James Garfield, Abe Lincoln, and Presidential Math 4. How Polish Math Saved Europe 5. 'That's How We Do It In Government' 6. Modifying Pi & The Round Road to Damnation VI. Strange Mathematical Corners of the Universe 1. An Evolutionary Voyage into Animalspace 2. Observing The Universe, Light Years Beyond Our Sight 3. A New Numerology: Why Psychics Should Visit the Genetics Lab 4. Putting The Multiverse To Work with Quantum Computing 5. Too Much Math for Scientists? VII. Truth, Falsehood, and The Nature of Reality 1. Sacrificing a Goat to Calculus 2. Grue and Bleen: Why Your Lawn Will Change Color Next Week 3. Is There A Hippo In Your Basement? 4. The Mathematical Nuclear Bomb 5. A Twisted Take on Turing 6. You Are a Computer Simulation 7. Why (At Least) One Chapter of this Book Is Wrong 8. Mathematical Proof of Immortality § ascunde descrierea