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Sophie's Diary
A Mathematical Novel
Häftad, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
542 kr
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Sophie Germain overcame gender stigmas and a lack of formal education to prove that for all prime exponents less than 100 Case I of Fermat's Last Theorem holds. Hidden behind a man's name, her brilliance as mathematician was first discovered by three of the greatest scholars of the eighteenth …
Mathematical Puzzle Tales
Häftad, 2000
429 kr
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Martin Gardner is widely known for his writing on recreational mathematics, not least for the myriad problems he has devised over some 25 years for Scientific American. In this book are 36 of his best brainteasers. These are not simply cunning puzzles, but serve to illustrate the art of the …
The G. H. Hardy Reader
Av Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1482 kr
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G. H. Hardy (1877-1947) ranks among the great mathematicians of the twentieth century. He did essential research in number theory and analysis, held professorships at Cambridge and Oxford, wrote important textbooks as well as the classic A Mathematician's Apology, and famously collaborated with J. …
The G. H. Hardy Reader
Av Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
780 kr
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G. H. Hardy (1877-1947) ranks among the great mathematicians of the twentieth century. He did essential research in number theory and analysis, held professorships at Cambridge and Oxford, wrote important textbooks as well as the classic A Mathematician's Apology, and famously collaborated with J. …
Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century
Av Michael Henle, Brian Hopkins
Häftad, 2012
429 kr
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Mistakes in mathematical reasoning can range from outlandish blunders to deep and subtle oversights that evade even the most watchful eye. This book represents the second collection of such errors to be compiled by Edward Barbeau. Like Barbeau's previous book, Mathematical Fallacies, Flaws and …
Proofs and Confirmations
The Story of the Alternating-Sign Matrix Conjecture
Av David M. Bressoud, William Watkins m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
699 kr
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This is an introduction to recent developments in algebraic combinatorics and an illustration of how research in mathematics actually progresses. The author recounts the story of the search for and discovery of a proof of a formula conjectured in the late 1970s: the number of n x n alternating sign …
Flatland
An Edition with Notes and Commentary
Av Edwin A. Abbott, William F. Lindgren m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
312 kr
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Flatland, Edwin Abbott's story of a two-dimensional universe, as told by one of its inhabitants who is introduced to the mysteries of three-dimensional space, has enjoyed an enduring popularity from the time of its publication in 1884. This fully annotated edition enables the modern-day reader to …
Flatland
An Edition with Notes and Commentary
Av Edwin A. Abbott, William F. Lindgren m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1432 kr
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Flatland, Edwin Abbott's story of a two-dimensional universe, as told by one of its inhabitants who is introduced to the mysteries of three-dimensional space, has enjoyed an enduring popularity from the time of its publication in 1884. This fully annotated edition enables the modern-day reader to …
Student Research Projects in Calculus
Av Marcus Cohen, Edward D. Gaughan m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
429 kr
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Changing the way students learn calculus at New Mexico State University. In the Spring of 1988, Marcus Cohen, Edward D. Gaughan, Arthur Knoebel, Douglas S. Kurtz, and David Penegelley began work on a student project approach to calculus. For the next two years, most of their waking hours (and some …
Search for E.T. Bell
Also Known As John Taine
Inbunden, 1993
429 kr
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Eric Temple Bell (1883-1960) was a distinguished mathematician and a best selling popularizer of mathematics. His Men of Mathematics, still in print after almost sixty years, inspired scores of young readers to become mathematicians. Under the name of John Taine, he also published science fiction …
Mathematical Reminiscences
Av Howard Eves
Häftad, 2001
429 kr
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Long known as a mathematical storyteller, Howard Eves writes his personal reminiscences, mostly mathematical, some not. The cast of characters includes Albert Einstein, Norbert Wiener, Julian Lowell Coolidge, Maurice Frechet, Nathan Altshiller-Court, G. H. Hardy, and many other interesting figures …
Musings of the Masters
An Anthology of Mathematical Reflections
Av Raymond Ayoub, Raymond G. Ayoub
Inbunden, 2004
795 kr
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The anthology is a collection of articles contiguous to the humanities written by renowned mathematicians of the twentieth century. The articles cover a variety of topics that, for want of a better name, shall be referred to as humanistic. An important criterion, thereby limiting the choice, is …
R.L. Moore
Mathematician and Teacher
Av John Parker
Inbunden, 2005
844 kr
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R. L. Moore: Mathematician and Teacher presents a full and frank biography of a mathematician recognized as one of the principal figures in the 20th Century progression of the American school of point set topology. He was equally well known as creator of the Moore Method (no textbooks, no lectures, …
Reality Conditions
Short Mathematical Fiction
Av Alex Kasman
Häftad, 2005
429 kr
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Where can you hear an old man in a nursing home tell of how he disproved Goldbach's Conjecture as part of an undergraduate research project? Get inside the mind of James Clerk Maxwell as he discovers electro-magnetic waves? Witness the 19th century's greatest mathematician finally get the credit …
99 Points of Intersection
Examples, Pictures, Proofs
Av Hans Walser
Inbunden, 2006
795 kr
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Translated from the original German by Peter Hilton and Jean Pedersen. The 99 points of intersection presented here were collected during a year-long search for surprising concurrence of lines. For each example we find compelling evidence for the sometimes startling fact that in a geometric figure …
Edge of the Universe
Celebrating Ten Years of Math Horizons
Av Deanna Haunsperger, Stephen Kennedy
Inbunden, 2006
795 kr
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Beautifully printed with 24 pages of full color. Ideal for Math Clubs. Math Horizons is a magazine that celebrates the people and ideas which are mathematics. Containing the editor.s selections from the first ten years of the magazine.s existence, this volume features exquisite expositions of …
Magic Numbers of the Professor
Av Owen O'Shea, Underwood Dudley
Inbunden, 2007
429 kr
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A fascinating collection of numerical curiosities and wonders. The Professor in Owen O Shea s book is the imaginary American Richard Stein. As Owen O Shea and the Professor travel through Ireland, O Shea notes the Professor s collection of amazing magic numbers in fascinating detail. His …
Harmony of the World
75 Years of Mathematics Magazine
Av Gerald L. Alexanderson, Gerald L. Alexanderson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
795 kr
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Who would expect to find in the pages of Mathematics Magazine the first full treatment of one of the more important and oft-cited twentieth-century theorems in analysis, the Stone-Weierstrass Theorem in an article by Marshall Stone himself? Where else would one look for proofs of trigonometric …
Euler and Modern Science
Av N.N. Bogolyubov, G.K. Mikhailov m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
429 kr
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This book is an English translation of a collection of papers in Russian from a conference held in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1983, 200 years after Euler's death. Two of the Russian papers in the collection are themselves translations from the German. The present English translation appears in …
Is Mathematics Inevitable?
A Miscellany
Av Underwood Dudley, Underwood Dudley
Inbunden, 2008
795 kr
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This is a collection of gems from the literature of mathematics that shine as brightly today as when they first appeared in print. They deserve to be seen and admired. The selections include two opposing views on the purpose of mathematics, The Strong Law of Small Numbers, the treatment of calculus …
Who Gave You the Epsilon?
And Other Tales of Mathematical History
Av Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
795 kr
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This book picks up the history of mathematics from where Sherlock Holmes in Babylon left it. The forty articles of Who Gave You the Epsilon? continue the story of the development of mathematics into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The articles have all been published in the Mathematical …
Expeditions in Mathematics
Av Tatiana Shubin, David F. Hayes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
795 kr
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This book is the second volume based on lectures for pre-college students given by prominent mathematicians in the Bay Area Mathematical Adventures (BAMA). This book reflects the flavor of the BAMA lectures and the excitement they have generated among the high school and middle school students in …
Historian Looks Back
The Calculus As Algebra and Selected Writings
Inbunden, 2010
795 kr
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Judith Grabiner, the author of A Historian Looks Back, has long been interested in investigating what mathematicians actually do, and how mathematics actually has developed. She addresses the results of her investigations not principally to other historians, but to mathematicians and teachers of …
Calculus and Its Origins
Inbunden, 2012
795 kr
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Calculus and Its Origins is an overview of calculus as an intellectual pursuit having a 2,000-year history. Author David Perkins examines the extent to which mathematicians and scholars from Egypt, Persia, and India absorbed and nourished Greek geometry, and details how the scholars wove their …
Beautiful Mathematics
Inbunden, 2011
795 kr
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This book is about beautiful mathematical concepts and creations. Mathematical ideas have an aesthetic appeal that can be appreciated by those who have the time and dedication to investigate. Mathematical topics are presented in the categories of words, images, formulas, theorems, proofs, …
Mathematician Comes of Age
Inbunden, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
795 kr
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This book is about the concept of mathematical maturity. Mathematical maturity is central to a mathematics education. The goal of a mathematics education is to transform the student from someone who treats mathematical ideas empirically and intuitively to someone who treats mathematical ideas …
Six Sources of Collapse
A Mathematician's Perspective on How Things Can Fall Apart in the Blink of an Eye
Inbunden, 2013
795 kr
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Beginning with one of the most remarkable ecological collapses of recent times, that of the passenger pigeon, this book surveys collapse processes across the entire spectrum of the natural and man-made world. The reader is taken through extreme weather events, crashing financial markets and …
How Euler Did Even More
Häftad, 2015
429 kr
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C. Edward Sandifer has been studying Euler for decades and is one of the world's leading experts on his work. This book is the second collection of Sandifer's 'How Euler Did It' columns. Each is a jewel of historical and mathematical exposition. The sum total of years of work and study of the most …
I, Mathematician
Av Peter Cassaza, Steven Krantz m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
795 kr
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What do mathematicians think of themselves, and what do others think of them? These musings, the theme of a special session at the San Jose MathFest of 2007, resonate with a large and diverse group of mathematicians and students, for these are the questions that govern the way that mathematicians …
Century of Advancing Mathematics
Av Stephen F. Kennedy, Donald J. Albers m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
795 kr
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The MAA was founded in 1915 to serve as a home for The American Mathematical Monthly. The mission of the Association-to advance mathematics, especially at the collegiate level-has, however, always been larger than merely publishing world-class mathematical exposition. MAA members have explored more …
