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Also by K. C. Cole:

Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens, July 2009
Hardcover
The Universe and the Teacup, April 1999
Paperback

THE UNIVERSE AND THE TEACUP
By: K. C. Cole

The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty

Harvest Books
April 1999
On Sale: April 15, 1999
224 pages
ISBN: 0156006561
EAN: 9780156006569
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

K. C. Cole's bestseller "provides fresh insights into the crucial role that mathematics plays" in our lives (San Francisco Chronicle). Mathematics, that breathtaking invention of ours that reveals the tiniest particles of matter and takes us to the outermost reaches of the cosmos, is found by many people to be intimidating. In The Universe and the Teacup, K. C. Cole demystifies mathematics and shows us-with humor and wonderfully accessible stories-why math need not be frightening. Using the O. J. Simpson trial, the bell curve, and Emmy Noether, the nineteenth- century woman scientist whose work was essential for Einstein's theory of relativity, Cole helps us see that more than just being a tool, math is a key to understanding the beauty of everything from rainbows to relativity.

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