Mathematics category: 12022 books
by Michael D. Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This classic text in applied mathematics, suitable for undergraduate- and graduate-level engineering courses, is also an excellent reference for professionals and students of applied mathematics. The precise and reader-friendly approach offers single-volume coverage of a substantial number of topics...
Ten Mathematical Essays on Approximation in Analysis and Topology
Ten Mathematical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
This book collects 10 mathematical essays on approximation in Analysis and Topology by some of the most influent mathematicians of the last third of the 20th Century. Besides the papers contain the very ultimate results in each of their respective fields, many of them also include a series of historical...
Compressed Sensing and its Applications
MATHEON Workshop 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
Since publication of the initial papers in 2006, compressed sensing has captured the imagination of the international signal processing community, and the mathematical foundations are nowadays quite well understood.
Parallel to the progress in mathematics, the potential applications of compressed...
Structures and Algorithms
Mathematics and the Nature of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
This book explains exactly what human knowledge is. The key concepts in this book are structures and algorithms, i.e., what the readers “see” and how they make use of what they see. Thus in comparison with some other books on the philosophy (or methodology) of science, which employ a syntactic...
Bridging Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering and Technology
Contributions from the Fall 2011 Seminar on Mathematical Sciences and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
This volume contains the invited contributions from talks delivered in the Fall 2011 series of the Seminar on Mathematical Sciences and Applications 2011 at Virginia State University. Contributors to this volume, who are leading...
A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing
The Sparse Way
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Mallat's book is the undisputed reference in this field - it is the only one that covers the essential material in such breadth and depth. - Laurent Demanet, Stanford University
The new edition of this classic book gives all the major concepts, techniques and applications of sparse representation,...
by Stanislas Dehaene
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 1997
The Number Sense is an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Describing experiments that show that human infants have a rudimentary number sense Stanislas Dehaene suggests that this sense is as basic as our perception of color and that it is wired into the brain. Dehaene shows that it was...
The New York Times Book of Mathematics
More Than 100 Years of Writing by the Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
From the archives of the world's most famous newspaper comes a collection of its very best writing on mathematics. Big and informative, The New York Times Book of Mathematics gathers more than 110 articles written from 1892 to 2010 that cover statistics, coincidences, chaos theory, famous problems, cryptography,...
The Emperor's New Mathematics
Western Learning and Imperial Authority During the Kangxi Reign (1662-1722)
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In 1644 the Qing dynasty seized power in China. Its Manchu elite were at first seen by most of their subjects as foreigners from beyond the Great Wall, and the consolidation of Qing rule presented significant cultural and political problems, as well as military challenges. It was the Kangxi emperor...
by Augustus De Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
One of the twentieth century's most eminent mathematical writers, Augustus De Morgan enriched his expositions with insights from history and psychology. On the Study and Difficulties of Mathematics represents some of his best work, containing points usually overlooked by elementary treatises, and written...
Rewriting the History of School Mathematics in North America 1607-1861
The Central Role of Cyphering Books
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
The focus of this book is the fundamental influence of the cyphering tradition on mathematics education in North American colleges, schools, and apprenticeship training classes between 1607 and 1861. It is the first book on the history of North American mathematics education to be written from that...
Algebraic Art
Mathematical Formalism and Victorian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The nineteenth century was a moment of extraordinary mathematical innovation, witnessing the development of non-Euclidean...
A History of Folding in Mathematics
Mathematizing the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to solve with a straightedge and compass – for example, it is impossible to construct a segment whose length is cube root of 2 with these instruments – the discovery of the Italian mathematician Margherita Beloch Piazzolla in 1934...
Cultures of Mathematics and Logic
Selected Papers from the Conference in Guangzhou, China, November 9-12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
This book gathers the proceedings of the conference "Cultures of Mathematics and Logic," held in Guangzhou, China. The event was the third in a series of interdisciplinary, international conferences emphasizing the cultural components of philosophy of mathematics and logic. It brought together...