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Table of Contents
Title Page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Preface
Part One NUMBERS
1. From Fish to Infinity
2. Rock Groups
3. The Enemy of My Enemy
4. Commuting
5. Division and Its Discontents
6. Location, Location, Location
Part Two RELATIONSHIPS
7. The Joy of x
8. Finding Your Roots
9. My Tub Runneth Over
10. Working Your Quads
11. Power Tools
Part Three SHAPES
12. Square Dancing
13. Something from Nothing
14. The Conic Conspiracy
15. Sine Qua Non
16. Take It to the Limit
Part Four CHANGE
17. Change We Can Believe In
18. It Slices, It Dices
19. All about e
20. Loves Me, Loves Me Not
21. Step Into the Light
Part Five DATA
22. The New Normal
23. Chances Are
24. Untangling the Web
Part Six FRONTIERS
25. The Loneliest Numbers
26. Group Think
27. Twist and Shout
28. Think Globally
29. Analyze This!
30. The Hilbert Hotel
Acknowledgments
Notes
Credits
Index
About the Author
Copyright © 2012 by Steven Strogatz
All rights reserved
For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write
to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park
Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.
www.hmhbooks.com
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Strogatz, Steven H. (Steven Henry)
The joy of x : a guided tour of math, from one to infinity / Steven Strogatz.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-547-51765-0 (hardback)
1. Mathematics—Popular works. I. Title.
QA93.S77 2012
510—dc23 2012017320
Illustrations by Margaret Nelson
eISBN 978-0-547-51766-7
v1.1012
Chapters 1–3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 16–18, 20, 23, 26, 28, and 30 are adapted, with
permission, from pieces originally published in the New York Times.
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint an excerpt from the
following copyrighted work: [>], from p. 111 of The Solitude of Prime Numbers:
A Novel by Paolo Giordano, translated by Shaun Whiteside, copyright © 2008
by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., translation copyright © 2009 by Shaun
Whiteside. Used by permission of Pamela Dorman Books, an imprint of Viking
Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Credits appear on [>].

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