Mathematics category: 12022 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This book is the fruit of a symposium in honor of Ted Eisenberg concerning the growing divide between the mathematics community and the mathematics education community, a divide that is clearly unhealthy for both. The work confronts this disturbing gap by considering the nature of the relationship...
The Role and Importance of Mathematics in Innovation
Proceedings of the Forum “Math-for-Industry” 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
This book is a collection of papers presented at the “Forum Math-for-Industry 2015” for which the unifying theme was “The Role and Importance of Mathematics in Innovation”, held at the Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University, October 26–30, 2015. The theme highlights two...
Mathematics Matters in Education
Essays in Honor of Roger E. Howe
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book is inspired by Roger E. Howe's contributions to the international communities of mathematics and mathematics education. Renowned for his research contributions in the fields of representation theory, automorphic forms, harmonic analysis, and invariant theory, Dr. Howe has also fundamentally...
A Mathematical Odyssey
Journey from the Real to the Complex
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Mathematics is a poem. It is a lucid, sensual, precise exposition of beautiful ideas directed to specific goals. It is worthwhile to have as broad a cross-section of mankind as possible be conversant with what goes on in mathematics. Just as everyone knows that the Internet is a powerful and important...
Models for Life
An Introduction to Discrete Mathematical Modeling with Microsoft Office Excel
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Features an authentic and engaging approach to mathematical modeling driven by real-world applications
With a focus on mathematical models based on real and current data, Models for Life: An Introduction to Discrete Mathematical Modeling with Microsoft® Office Excel® guides readers in the...
Connections in Discrete Mathematics
A Celebration of the Work of Ron Graham
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Discrete mathematics has been rising in prominence in the past fifty years, both as a tool with practical applications and as a source of new and interesting mathematics. The topics in discrete mathematics have become so well developed that it is easy to forget that common threads connect the different...
Understanding Numbers: Simplify life's mathematics. Decode the world around you.
20 thought-provoking lessons
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
**"Simple, clear explanations of twenty ways in which mathematics helps us to understand practical issues of everyday life. Suitable for teenagers and adults, and beautifully produced. Highly recommended!" **- Professor Ian Stewart, bestselling author of The Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
This book is a compilation of 21 papers presented at the International Cramér Symposium on Insurance Mathematics (ICSIM) held at Stockholm University in June, 2013. The book comprises selected contributions from several large research communities in modern insurance mathematics and its applications.
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by Carl B. Boyer, Uta C. Merzbach
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the history of mathematics
For more than forty years, A History of Mathematics has been the reference of choice for those looking to learn about the fascinating history of humankind’s relationship with numbers, shapes, and...
How Mathematicians Think
Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitive...
by Ian Hacking
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This truly philosophical book takes us back to fundamentals - the sheer experience of proof, and the enigmatic relation of mathematics to nature. It asks unexpected questions, such as 'what makes mathematics mathematics?', 'where did proof come from and how did it evolve?', and 'how did the distinction...
by Øystein Linnebo
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of mathematics from one of its leading contemporary scholars
Mathematics is one of humanity's most successful yet puzzling endeavors. It is a model of precision and objectivity, but appears distinct from the empirical sciences because...
by Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard, John Woods
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
One of the most striking features of mathematics is the fact that we are much more certain about the mathematical knowledge we have than about what mathematical knowledge is knowledge of. Are numbers, sets, functions and groups physical entities of some kind? Are they objectively existing objects...
Mathematics and the Body
Material Entanglements in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
This book explores alternative ways to consider the relationship between mathematics and the material world. Drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Châtelet and the post-humanist materialism of Karen Barad, the authors present an 'inclusive materialist' approach to studying mathematics education. This...