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    Title
    A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Michael S. Schneider
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 384
    Width: 187 mm
    Height: 237 mm
    Thickness: 27 mm
    Weight: 513 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780060926717
    ISBN 10: 0060926716
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: SCI000000
    BISAC category code: SCI005000
    Dewey: 516.001
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T8.0
    BISAC category code: SCI004000
    BISAC category code: MAT022000
    Dewey: 516.001
    BISAC category code: SCI075000
    Publisher
    HarperCollins Publishers Inc
    Imprint name
    AVON BOOKS
    Publication date
    12 November 2003
    Publication City/Country
    New York, NY/US
    Main description
    The Universe May Be a Mystery, But It's No SecretMichael 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 numbers by the ancient Greeks. Why squares show up so often in goddess art and board games. What property makes the spiral the most widespread shape in nature, from embryos and hair curls to hurricanes and galaxies. How the human body shares the design of a bean plant and the solar system. How a snowflake is like Stonehenge, and a beehive like a calendar. How our ten fingers hold the secrets of both a lobster and a cathedral. And much more.
    Review quote
    "Highly informative . . . [shows] Schneider's particular gift of transforming everyday experience into something magical . . . Highly recommended."-- "New Frontier"In this book you will find something that cannot be obtained elsewhere, a complete introduction to the geometric code of nature, written and illustrated by the most perceptive of its modern investigators."-- from the Preface by John Mitchell