Mathematics category: 12022 books
The History of Mathematics
A Brief Course
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Praise for the Second Edition
"An amazing assemblage of worldwide contributions in mathematics and, in addition to use as a course book, a valuable resource . . . essential."
—CHOICE
This Third Edition of The History of Mathematics examines the elementary arithmetic, geometry,...
Engineering Mathematics II
Algebraic, Stochastic and Analysis Structures for Networks, Data Classification and Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This book highlights the latest advances in engineering mathematics with a main focus on the mathematical models, structures, concepts, problems and computational methods and algorithms most relevant for applications in modern technologies and engineering. It addresses mathematical methods of algebra,...
Quite Right
The Story of Mathematics, Measurement, and Money
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Mathematics did not spring spontaneously into life, with rules set in stone for all time. Its story is closely linked with the problems of measurement and money that have often driven its progress. Quite Right explains how mathematical ideas have gradually emerged since prehistoric times, so that...
The Digital and the Real World
Computational Foundations of Mathematics, Science, Technology, and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
In the 21st century, digitalization is a global challenge of mankind. Even for the public, it is obvious that our world is increasingly dominated by powerful algorithms and big data. But, how computable is our world? Some people believe that successful problem solving in science, technology, and economies...
The Mathematics That Power Our World
How Is It Made?
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
"It appears the best use of the text to be as a resource for educators interested in providing individual case studies of applications of mathematics to their students while diving beyond the why and thoroughly into the how."
Mathematical Association of America
The Mathematics...
by Donald Bindner, Martin J. Erickson, Joe Hemmeter
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Presents a clear bridge between mathematics and the liberal arts
Mathematics for the Liberal Arts provides a comprehensible and precise introduction to modern mathematics intertwined with the history of mathematical discoveries. The book discusses mathematical ideas in the context of the unfolding...
Indian Mathematics
Engaging with the World from Ancient to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Indian Mathematics gives a unique insight into the history of mathematics within a historical global context. It builds on research into the connection between mathematics and the world-wide advancement of economics and technology. Joseph draws out parallel developments in other cultures and carefully...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The depth and breadth of a mathematics teacher’s understanding of mathematics matter most as the teacher engages in the daily work of teaching. One of the major challenges to teachers is to be ready to draw on the relevant mathematical ideas from different areas of the school curriculum and from...
Beliefs and Mathematics
Festschrift in honor of Guenter Toerner's 60th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Beliefs and Mathematics is a Festschrift honoring the contributions of Günter Törner to mathematics education and mathematics. Mathematics Education as a legitimate area of research emerged from the initiatives of well known mathematicians of the last century such as Felix Klein and Hans Freudenthal....
by Mike Hockney
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
“Without mathematics we cannot penetrate deeply into philosophy. Without philosophy we cannot penetrate deeply into mathematics. Without both we cannot penetrate deeply into anything.” – LeibnizIn intellectual history, perhaps nothing has been more misinterpreted than Gödel’s incompleteness...
Math Makes Sense!
A Constructivist Approach to the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
The methods for teaching mathematics usually follow the structure of mathematics. The problem with this is that the structure of mathematics took centuries of elaboration to develop and is not the same as how one originally experiences mathematics. Based on research of how mathematics is actually...
by Dr. Weihu Hong
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Art of Mathematics
by Dr. Weihu Hong
Author Dr. Weihu Hong, with his book, Art of Mathematics, has brought us a lot of excitement by showing many methods of constructing surfaces with a lot of examples of imagination, based on different methods of constructing surfaces...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practise it. It addresses questions of who creates mathematics, who uses it, and how. A broader understanding of mathematical practitioners...
by Roshdi Rashed
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This book follows the development of classical mathematics and the relation between work done in the Arab and Islamic worlds and that undertaken by the likes of Descartes and Fermat.
‘Early modern,’ mathematics is a term widely used to refer to the mathematics which developed in the West...