Name: Mathematical Mysteries in the Natural World: Why the Small Outnumbers the big (en Inglés)
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Author: Alex Ely Kossovsky
ISBN: 9789819801824

portada Mathematical Mysteries in the Natural World: Why the Small Outnumbers the big (en Inglés)

Mathematical Mysteries in the Natural World: Why the Small Outnumbers the big (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

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World Scientific Publishing Company

Autor

Alex Ely Kossovsky

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

250

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9789819801824

Mathematical Mysteries in the Natural World: Why the Small Outnumbers the big (en Inglés)

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Why are there more poor people with small bank accounts than rich people with big bank accounts? Why are there more small planets and stars than big ones in the cosmos? And why are there more small rivers than big rivers, and more harmless tremors than devastating earthquakes? Empirical examinations of real-life data overwhelmingly confirm the existence of such uneven size proportions in favor of the small, leaving us only the question: Why?This law of nature carries through a vast list of topics and disciplines, confirming it to be nearly universal. In the biological world there are only approximately two million whales and over three billion birds; in number theory there are more small prime numbers than there are big ones; in census data there are more villages than towns, more towns than cities, and more cities than metropolises; in history there have been more minor conflicts than great wars.In a landmark, first-ever study on the distribution of relative sizes, this book discusses several real-life case studies such as those above in extensive detail, and presents three distinct explanations for the phenomenon. Readers of all disciplines and levels of expertise will find an easily accessible yet original exploration that concludes with a numerical quantification demonstrating precisely by how much the relatively small is more numerous than the relatively big.