| The book under review Nature's Numbers by Ian | | | | the same for all the six planets! |
| Stewart is worth reading by one and all. | | | | Io, Europa, and Ganymede are three of Jupiter's |
| Ian Stewart is the author of over sixty books. In | | | | larger satellites. They orbit the planet in, |
| a very lucid style he explains the complicated | | | | respectively, 1.77. 3.55, and 7.16 days. Each of |
| mathematics that is found in nature to a layman. | | | | these numbers is almost exactly twice the |
| He writes the well-known 'Mathematical | | | | previous one. There is a significant pattern. |
| Recreations' column in the famous magazine | | | | It is interesting to note about the Ship/Dock |
| 'Scientific American'. | | | | theorem. That is, if you want to change the word |
| To the non-mathematical readers the book is a | | | | ship into the word dock by changing one letter at |
| boon. | | | | a time and getting a valid word at every stage, |
| The book has nine chapters namely, The natural | | | | you will find that all solutions have one thing at |
| order, What mathematics is for, What | | | | common: at least one of the intermediate words |
| mathematics is about, The constants of change, | | | | must contain two vowels. Readers will be |
| From violins to videos, Broken Symmetry, The | | | | motivated to do this puzzle on their own to find |
| rhythm of life, Do dice play God, Drops, | | | | out the result. |
| Dynamics, and Daisies. All the chapters are with | | | | The rhythm of life is wonderful. In nature |
| very interesting examples. | | | | everything is rhythmic! There are numerous |
| In chapter one titled, Natural Order, the author | | | | examples given in the chapter 'The rhythm of life'. |
| explains the amazing facts of patterns that are | | | | The author analyses the chaos theory in the |
| found in the nature! In nearly all flowers, the | | | | chapter 'Do dice play God'. |
| number of petals is one of the numbers that | | | | There is a list of books for further reading to |
| occur in the strange sequence 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, | | | | those who are interested to know more about |
| 55, 89! | | | | natures' secrets. |
| The great scientist Kepler found that if you take | | | | It is highly recommended that all should read this |
| the cube of the distance of any planet from the | | | | book to understand natures' secrets or rather |
| Sun and divide it by the square of its orbital | | | | secrets of God! |
| period, you always get the same number. It was | | | | |