Mathematics category: 12022 books
by Shaun Bullett, Tom Fearn, Frank Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
This book leads readers from a basic foundation to an advanced level understanding of dynamical and complex systems. It is the perfect text for graduate or PhD mathematical-science students looking for support in topics such as applied dynamical systems, Lotka–Volterra dynamical systems, applied...
A Strange Wilderness
The Lives of the Great Mathematicians
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
“Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.”-- Mathematics historian W. S. Anglin From the internationally bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem comes a landmark publication on the eccentric lives...
by Mark A. Lewis, Sergei V. Petrovskii, Jonathan R. Potts
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
This book investigates the mathematical analysis of biological invasions. Unlike purely qualitative treatments of ecology, it draws on mathematical theory and methods, equipping the reader with sharp tools and rigorous methodology. Subjects include invasion dynamics, species interactions, population...
The Philosophy of Set Theory
An Historical Introduction to Cantor's Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
A century ago, Georg Cantor demonstrated the possibility of a series of transfinite infinite numbers. His methods, unorthodox for the time, enabled him to derive theorems that established a mathematical reality for a hierarchy of infinities. Cantor's innovation was opposed, and ignored, by the establishment;...
Applied Mathematics
Data Compression, Spectral Methods, Fourier Analysis, Wavelets, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This textbook, apart from introducing the basic aspects of applied mathematics, focuses on recent topics such as information data manipulation, information coding, data approximation, data dimensionality reduction, data compression, time-frequency and time scale bases, image manipulation, and image...
Pythagoras' Revenge
A Mathematical Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These questions are the inspiration for the mathematical mystery novel Pythagoras' Revenge. Suspenseful...
Yearning for the Impossible
The Surprising Truths of Mathematics, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truth of Mathematics, Second Edition explores the history of mathematics from the perspective of the creative tension between common sense and the "impossible" as the author follows the discovery or invention of new concepts that have marked mathematical...
by Robert B. Banks
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Have you ever daydreamed about digging a hole to the other side of the world? Robert Banks not only entertains such ideas but, better yet, he supplies the mathematical know-how to turn fantasies into problem-solving adventures. In this sequel to the popular Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes (Princeton,...
by Carlo Cellucci
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
This volume examines the limitations of mathematical logic and proposes a new approach to logic intended to overcome them. To this end, the book compares mathematical logic with earlier views of logic, both in the ancient and in the modern age, including those of Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Descartes,...
Probabilistic Thinking
Presenting Plural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
This volume provides a necessary, current and extensive analysis of probabilistic thinking from a number of mathematicians, mathematics educators, and psychologists. The work of 58 contributing authors, investigating probabilistic thinking across the globe, is encapsulated in 6 prefaces, 29 chapters...
by Orin Chein, Bonnie Averbach
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Historically, many of the most important mathematical concepts arose from problems that were recreational in origin. This book takes advantage of that fact, using recreational mathematics — problems, puzzles and games — to teach students how to think critically. Encouraging active participation...
An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning
Numbers, Sets and Functions
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1997
The purpose of this book is to introduce the basic ideas of mathematical proof to students embarking on university mathematics. The emphasis is on helping the reader in understanding and constructing proofs and writing clear mathematics. This is achieved by exploring set theory, combinatorics and...
A Certain Ambiguity
A Mathematical Novel (New in Paper)
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in...
by Jan Dereziński, Christian Gérard
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Unifying a range of topics that are currently scattered throughout the literature, this book offers a unique and definitive review of mathematical aspects of quantization and quantum field theory. The authors present both basic and more advanced topics of quantum field theory in a mathematically consistent...