Mathematics category: 12022 books
Mathematics Curriculum in Pacific Rim Countries China, Japan, Korea, and Singapore
Proceedings of a Conference
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
This volume contains the proceedings of the First International Curriculum Conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum (CSMC). The CSMC is one of the National Science Foundation Centers for Learning and Teaching (Award No. ESI0333879). The countries—China, Japan, Korea,...
Essential Mathematics for the Physical Sciences, Volume 1
Homogenous Boundary Value Problems, Fourier Methods, and Special Functions
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Physics is expressed in the language of mathematics; it is deeply ingrained in how physics is taught and how it's practiced. A study of the mathematics used in science is thus asound intellectual investment for training as scientists and engineers. This first volume of two is centered on methods of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This anthology fosters an interdisciplinary dialogue between the mathematical and artistic approaches in the field where mathematical and artistic thinking and practice merge. The articles included highlight the most significant current ideas and phenomena, providing a multifaceted and extensive snapshot...
by Jennifer Prior
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Build third graders' conceptual knowledge and help them prepare for the STAAR Mathematics test through higher-level thinking problems and graphical representations from TIME For Kids. This resource provides practice problems across a wide range of question formats, including multistep problems, analytical...
by James D Louck, Myron L Stein*
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This monograph develops chaos theory from properties of the graphs inverse to the parabolic map of the interval [0, 2], where the height at the midpoint x = 1 may be viewed as a time-like parameter, which together with the x-coordinate, provide the two parameters that uniquely characterize the parabola,...
Edmond Halley’s Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius’s Conics
Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2011
Apollonius’s Conics was one of the greatest works of advanced mathematics in antiquity. The work comprised eight books, of which four have come down to us in their original Greek and three in Arabic. By the time the Arabic translations were produced, the eighth book had already been lost. In...
by John P. D'Angelo
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Linear and Complex Analysis for Applications aims to unify various parts of mathematical analysis in an engaging manner and to provide a diverse and unusual collection of applications, both to other fields of mathematics and to physics and engineering. The book evolved from several of the author’s...
String Figures as Mathematics?
An Anthropological Approach to String Figure-making in Oral Tradition Societies
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
This book addresses the mathematical rationality contained in the making of string figures. It does so by using interdisciplinary methods borrowed from anthropology, mathematics, history and philosophy of mathematics. The practice of string figure-making has long been carried out in many societies,...
by Edward Batschelet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
From the reviews: "...Here we have a book which we can wholeheartedly suggest. The mathematics is sound and pared to essentials; the examples are an impressive, well-chosen selection from the biomathematics literature, and the problem sets provide both useful exercises and some fine introductions...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
For various scientific and engineering problems, how to deal with variables and parameters of uncertain value is an important issue. Full analysis of the specific errors in measurement, observations, experiments, and applications are vital in dealing with the parameters taken to simplify the problem....
Intelligent Computer Mathematics
11th International Conference, CICM 2018, Hagenberg, Austria, August 13-17, 2018, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics, CICM 2018, held in Hagenberg, Austria, in August 2018.
The 23 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 36 submissions. The papers...
by Utkir A Rozikov
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
A mathematical billiard is a mechanical system consisting of a billiard ball on a table of any form (which can be planar or even a multidimensional domain) but without billiard pockets. The ball moves and its trajectory is defined by the ball's initial position and its initial speed vector. The ball's...
How to Measure the Infinite
Mathematics with Infinite and Infinitesimal Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
This book contains an original introduction to the use of infinitesimal and infinite numbers, namely, the Alpha-Theory, which can be considered as an alternative approach to nonstandard analysis.
The basic principles are presented in an elementary way by using the ordinary language of mathematics;...
Advanced Computing in Industrial Mathematics
12th Annual Meeting of the Bulgarian Section of SIAM December 20-22, 2017, Sofia, Bulgaria Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
This book gathers the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of the Bulgarian Section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, BGSIAM’17, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in December 2017. The general theme of BGSIAM’17 was industrial and applied mathematics, with a particular...