Mathematics category: 12022 books
by Colin McGregor, Jonathan Nimmo, Wilson Stothers
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
The third edition of this popular and effective textbook provides in one volume a unified treatment of topics essential for first year university students studying for degrees in mathematics. Students of computer science, physics and statistics will also find this book a helpful guide to all the basic...
Doing Mathematics
Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Doing Mathematics discusses some ways mathematicians and mathematical physicists do their work and the subject matters they uncover and fashion. The conventions they adopt, the subject areas they delimit, what they can prove and calculate about the physical world, and the analogies they discover and...
by Valerio Lucarini, Davide Faranda, Ana Cristina Gomes Monteiro Moreira de Freitas
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Written by a team of international experts, Extremes and Recurrence in Dynamical Systems presents a unique point of view on the mathematical theory of extremes and on its applications in the natural and social sciences. Featuring an interdisciplinary approach to new concepts in pure and applied mathematical...
Functional Differential Equations
Advances and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Features new results and up-to-date advances in modeling and solving differential equations
Introducing the various classes of functional differential equations, Functional Differential Equations: Advances and Applications presents the needed tools and topics to study the various classes of...
Applications of Mathematics in Models, Artificial Neural Networks and Arts
Mathematics and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
The book shows a very original organization addressing in a non traditional way, but with a systematic approach, to who has an interest in using mathematics in the social sciences.
The book is divided in four parts: (a) a historical part, written by Vittorio Capecchi which helps us understand...
Applications + Practical Conceptualization + Mathematics = fruitful Innovation
Proceedings of the Forum of Mathematics for Industry 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
This book is a collection of papers presented at the conference “Forum Math-for-Industry 2014” for which the unifying theme was “Applications + Practical Conceptualization + Mathematics = fruitful Innovation” in October 2014. This epigram encapsulates the dynamics of the process that takes...
by Daniel Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Peter Rosenthal
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Designed for an undergraduate course or for independent study, this text presents sophisticated mathematical ideas in an elementary and friendly fashion. The fundamental purpose of this book is to teach mathematical thinking while conveying the beauty and elegance of mathematics. The book contains...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years geometry seems to have lost large parts of its former central position in mathematics teaching in most countries. However, new trends have begun to counteract this tendency. There is an increasing awareness that geometry plays a key role in mathematics and learning mathematics. Although...
How We Understand Mathematics
Conceptual Integration in the Language of Mathematical Description
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
This volume examines mathematics as a product of the human mind and analyzes the language of "pure mathematics" from various advanced-level sources. Through analysis of the foundational texts of mathematics, it is demonstrated that math is a complex literary creation, containing objects,...
What Mathematics Do Students Know and How is that Knowledge Changing?
Evidence from the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This volume is intended for researchers, curriculum developers, policy makers, and classroom teachers who want comprehensive information on what students at grades 4, 8, and 12 (the grades assessed by NAEP) can and cannot do in mathematics. After two introductory chapters on the design of NAEP, the...
Algorithms and Complexity in Mathematics, Epistemology, and Science
Proceedings of 2015 and 2016 ACMES Conferences
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
ACMES (Algorithms and Complexity in Mathematics, Epistemology, and Science) is a multidisciplinary conference series that focuses on epistemological and mathematical issues relating to computation in modern science. This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the 2015 and 2016 conferences...
by Xin-She Yang
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
This unique book provides a comprehensive introduction to computational mathematics, which forms an essential part of contemporary numerical algorithms, scientific computing and optimization. It uses a theorem-free approach with just the right balance between mathematics and numerical algorithms....
Logic, Mathematics, and Computer Science
Modern Foundations with Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
This text for the first or second year undergraduate in mathematics, logic, computer science, or social sciences, introduces the reader to logic, proofs, sets, and number theory. It also serves as an excellent independent study reference and resource for instructors. Adapted from Foundations of Logic...
Advances in Mathematics and Applications
Celebrating 50 years of the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing, University of Campinas
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
This book celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing (IMECC) of the University of Campinas, Brazil, by offering reviews of selected research developed at one of the most prestigious mathematics institutes in Latin America. Written by senior...