Mathematics category: 12022 books
Poor Robin's Prophecies
A curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Author, astrologer, journalist, satirist, and 'well-willer to the mathematics', Poor Robin of Saffron Walden was a fantastic, yet invented, figure of British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period. Poor Robin's Almanac first appeared in 1662, developing an enthusiastic...
by Tobias Dantzig
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
More than a history of mathematics, this lively book traces mathematical ideas and processes to their sources, stressing the methods used by the masters of the ancient world. Author Tobias Dantzig portrays the human story behind mathematics, showing how flashes of insight in the minds of certain gifted...
by E. T. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
"This important book … presents a broad account of the part played by mathematics in the evolution of civilization, describing clearly the main principles, methods, and theories of mathematics that have survived from about 4000 B.C. to 1940." — Booklist.
In this time-honored study, one...
by Mike Hockney
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The greatest catastrophe in intellectual history was to regard physics as real and mathematics as an unreal abstraction. In fact, mathematics is noumenal (true) reality, and physics is phenomenal (illusory) reality. Mathematics tells you what things are in themselves, and physics tells you how they...
by Mike Hockney
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The universe is a mathematical hologram. It’s made of ontological mathematics. It’s a living, thinking, self-optimising holographic organism composed of immortal, indestructible, ontological mathematical units called monads, defined by the most powerful and beautiful equation in the whole of mathematics:...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
This anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else--and you...
Games and Mathematics
Subtle Connections
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
The appeal of games and puzzles is timeless and universal. In this unique book, David Wells explores the fascinating connections between games and mathematics, proving that mathematics is not just about tedious calculation but imagination, insight and intuition. The first part of the book introduces...
Financial Mathematics
Theory and Problems for Multi-period Models
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
With the Bologna Accords a bachelor-master-doctor curriculum has been introduced in various countries with the intention that students may enter the job market already at the bachelor level. Since financial Institutions provide non negligible job opportunities also for mathematicians, and scientists...
Math Power
How to Help Your Child Love Math, Even If You Don't
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Any child can overcome the disadvantages of mediocre math teaching in school and parental math anxiety at home. Math Power offers easy-to-follow and concrete strategies for teaching math concepts. These lively techniques — including games, questions, conversations, and specific math activities —...
Forging Connections between Computational Mathematics and Computational Geometry
Papers from the 3rd International Conference on Computational Mathematics and Computational Geometry
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
This volume presents original research contributed to the 3rd Annual International Conference on Computational Mathematics and Computational Geometry (CMCGS 2014), organized and administered by Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF). Computational Mathematics and Computational Geometry are closely...
by W. W. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Here is a presentation of elementary mathematics that anyone can appreciate, especially those with imagination. As the title suggests, the author's technique relies on visual elements, and his approach employs the most graphic and least "forbidding" aspects of mathematics. Most people, he...
by Alan Sultan, Alice F. Artzt
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Designed to help pre-service and in-service teachers gain the knowledge they need to facilitate students' understanding, competency, and interest in mathematics, the revised and updated Second Edition of this popular text and resource bridges the gap between the mathematics learned in college and...
by Donald M. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
This captivating book explains some of mathematics' most fascinating ideas to nonspecialists. It explores items of philosophical and historical interest, discusses the often-surprising applicability of mathematics, and reveals the subject's intrinsic beauty. Author Donald M. Davis focuses on three...
The Dynamic Concepts of Philosophical Mathematics
A Philosophical Mathematical Britannica
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
In The Dynamic Concept of Philosophical Mathematics, author Anthony Ugochukwu O. Aliche delves deeply into a comprehensive discussion into the intertwined relationship between philosophy and mathematics. Aliche begins by defining philosophical mathematics and traces its origins and its branches. He...