Screen LibraryPrime suspects : the anatomy of integers and permutations /
Integers and permutations--two of the most basic mathematical objects--are born of different fields and analyzed with separate techniques. Yet when the Mathematical Sciences Investigation team of crack forensic mathematicians, led by Professor Gauss, begins its autopsies of the victims of two seemin...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Integers and permutations--two of the most basic mathematical objects--are born of different fields and analyzed with separate techniques. Yet when the Mathematical Sciences Investigation team of crack forensic mathematicians, led by Professor Gauss, begins its autopsies of the victims of two seemingly unrelated homicides, Arnie Integer and Daisy Permutation, they discover the most extraordinary similarities between the structures of each body. |
| Carrier Form: | 225 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), music ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218). |
| ISBN: |
9780691149158 (paperback) : 0691149151 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | QA155 |
| CLC: | J238.4(561) |
| Call Number: | J238.4(561)/G765 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Prime Suspects -- Dramatis personae -- Character references / The mathematics of Prime Suspects -- Bibliography -- The music of Prime Suspects / The unfinished cover art of Spain Rodriguez. |