A FEW WORDS WITH THE READER |
9 |
Mathematician and physiologist get together in September |
12 |
Mathematician and physiologist get together in Decembers |
20 |
A radio engineer needs math |
25 |
One last word to the reader |
31 |
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MATHE- MATICS? |
33 |
What is mathematics all about? |
35 |
A little historical background |
36 |
RUBBER-SHEET MATHEMATICS |
41 |
Mathematics and art |
47 |
Continuous transformations |
47 |
A remarkable surface |
55 |
Graphs |
58 |
NUMBERS AND POINTS |
71 |
THE MATHEMATICS OF A SADDLE |
88 |
Extrema |
96 |
Extremal curves |
106 |
The epoch of Euler |
108 |
Soap bubbles |
110 |
MATHEMATICIANS ARE NOT ALL ALIKE |
114 |
Where do axioms come from? |
116 |
Two ways of reasoning |
117 |
Induction and mathematical induction |
125 |
The drama of equation solving-an historical sketch |
129 |
ENGINEER CONSULTS MATHEMATICIAN |
136 |
What is better? |
141 |
Criteria |
147 |
Optimization |
150 |
How close? |
152 |
Mary and Maude |
155 |
Integrals-not so terrible after all |
157 |
Space, distance, norm |
162 |
Terms and where they come from |
169 |
The problems of an oil engineer |
172 |
Choosing a job |
174 |
Model building |
184 |
Mathematical models |
187 |
Events and their models |
191 |
Does one really need a mathematical model? |
197 |
Modelling the oil-refining process |
206 |
YOU PROBABLY LIKE THIS BOOK |
209 |
Probability theory. Some background |
212 |
Random events |
213 |
Probability |
214 |
An experiment and what came of it |
216 |
Engineer consults mathematician |
222 |
Experimenter and statistician |
227 |
Decision making |
231 |
Intuition and birthdays |
234 |
Intuition and luck |
239 |
Random walks |
246 |
The drunkard's walk |
258 |
The random-walk student |
260 |
INFORMATION |
268 |
Memory and codes |
271 |
Information and what it's all about |
278 |
Quantitative measures |
282 |
The capacity of a communication channel |
288 |
Coding |
290 |
A language model and the transmission of information |
295 |
Basic principle of the theory of the trans- mission of information |
297 |
What about the content? |
300 |
MATHEMATICAL MACHINES AND WHAT THEY CAN DO |
303 |
The psychiatrist drops in for a talk |
310 |
Pattern recognition |
318 |
Technical diagnostics |
327 |
Medical diagnostics |
338 |
Replacing doc with a diagnostic machine |
347 |
What is our life? A game... |
349 |
One final word to the reader |
360 |