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Mircea Pitici holds a PhD mathematics education from Cornell University, where he teaches math and writing. He has edited The Best Writing on Mathematics since 2010.
The year's most memorable writing on mathematics
This anthology brings together the year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in mathematics, The Best Writing on Mathematics makes available to a wide...
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Michael Huber is associate professor of mathematics at Muhlenberg College.
Fun math puzzles based on the Twelve Labors of Hercules
How might Hercules, the most famous of the Greek heroes, have used mathematics to complete his astonishing Twelve Labors? From conquering the Nemean Lion and cleaning out the Augean Stables, to capturing the Erymanthean Boar and entering the Underworld to defeat the three-headed dog Cerberus, Hercules and his legend...
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About the Book The ZENNY RIEL model of mathematics is a no-trial-and-error, fast and sure approach to the arithmetical processes. Now with an illustration of the modified abacus, ZENNY RIEL will give you confidence in mathematics and adjusts the narrative, for once making the tool (calculator or abacus) obsolete for learners-and not the other way around! About the Author C. Zenaida Riel is a retiree from Accounting and Office computer applications...
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Este libro sienta las bases de las matemáticas, empezando por la lógica y las operaciones elementales y pasando por temas como la trigonometría, los números complejos, las notaciones matriciales y vectoriales, al tiempo que aborda la geometría plana, sólida y analítica, así como los rudimentos del cálculo combinatorio y numérico. Estos temas son necesarios para la comprensión del análisis matemático y de todos los desarrollos modernos,...
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La plupart des mathématiques sont présentées dans ce livre, en partant des concepts de base et élémentaires pour explorer les domaines les plus complexes et avancés.Les mathématiques sont abordées à la fois d'un point de vue théorique, en exposant des théorèmes et des définitions de chaque type particulier, et sur le plan pratique, en résolvant plus de 1 000 exercices.L'approche des mathématiques est donnée par des connaissances progressives,...
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"John Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Abel Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters" "John Willard Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, American Mathematical Society" John Milnor is Professor of Mathematics and Co-Director of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at SUNY, Stony Brook. He is the author of Topology from the Differential Viewpoint, Singular Points of Complex Hypersurfaces, Morse Theory,...
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Get the Summary of Oliver Theobald's Machine Learning for Absolute Beginners in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Machine Learning for Absolute Beginners" by Oliver Theobald provides an introduction to the expansive field of data science, which includes big data, AI, data mining, and machine learning. The book traces the evolution of data analysis from classical statistics, which could be managed manually, to the...
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Esta excelente obra es un valioso estudio histórico sobre el origen y desarrollo de las matemáticas desde los tiempos más remotos, cuando las antiguas civilizaciones comenzaron a desarrollar los números y sus propiedades, hasta el vertiginoso dominio de la informática y el ciberespacio de nuestros días. No es un tratado exclusivo para matemáticos y científicos, sino una amena y cautivadora narración de los hechos más importantes en la historia...
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This book lays the foundations of mathematics, starting with logic and elementary operations and moving on to topics such as trigonometry, complex numbers, matrix and vector notations, while addressing plane, solid and analytic geometry, as well as the rudiments of combinatorial and numerical calculus. Such topics are necessary for the understanding of mathematical analysis and all modern developments, while providing a useful extension of knowledge...
13) EZ Math Workbook
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I HATE MATH.....There I said it! I bet thousands of students and parents have said it. When I was really having problems with Algebra in the 9th grade, my Grandmother ( who was a teacher) told me "math isn't hard if you understand it".
When I started my career in teaching math in Jacksonville Florida I soon learned that all the math books we had were lacking really good easy to understand instructions on explaining specific areas. Most of...
14) Wie man mit Rechenkünsten Schwiegereltern beeindruckt, Magier durchschaut und fiktive Länder erku
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Warum Mathematik lernen ...
... wenn man doch ohnehin einen Taschenrechner am Handy hat? Warum sich in der Schule mit endlosen Formeln und Rechnungen quälen? Es heißt doch nicht umsonst: Das werde ich später nie brauchen!
Andreas Ehrendorfer belehrt Sie eines Besseren: In 17 Geschichten aus seinem Leben zeigt er, wie viel Spaß Mathe machen kann und wie häufig wir unser in der Schule erworbenes Wissen über Mathe im Alltag einsetzen (können,...
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La mayor parte de las matemáticas se presenta en este libro, desde los conceptos básicos y elementales hasta las áreas más complejas y avanzadas.Las matemáticas se abordan tanto desde un punto de vista teórico, exponiendo teoremas y definiciones de cada tipo particular, como a nivel práctico, llegando a resolver más de 1.000 ejercicios.El acercamiento a las matemáticas está dado por el conocimiento progresivo, exponiendo los distintos capítulos...
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La mayor parte de las matemáticas se presenta en este libro, desde los conceptos básicos y elementales hasta las áreas más complejas y avanzadas.Las matemáticas se abordan tanto desde un punto de vista teórico, exponiendo teoremas y definiciones de cada tipo particular, como a nivel práctico, llegando a resolver más de 1.000 ejercicios.El acercamiento a las matemáticas está dado por el conocimiento progresivo, exponiendo los distintos capítulos...
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Get the Summary of Steven Strogatz's Infinite Powers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Infinite Powers" delves into the historical evolution of mathematics, tracing its origins from ancient civilizations' practical needs to the sophisticated realms of calculus and infinity. The book highlights how ancient counting systems and geometry laid the groundwork for later mathematical breakthroughs, including the development...
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Mihály Bakonyi (1962-2010) was professor of mathematics at Georgia State University and coauthor of Schur's Algorithm and Several Applications. Hugo J. Woerdeman is professor and head of the Department of Mathematics at Drexel University.
Intensive research in matrix completions, moments, and sums of Hermitian squares has yielded a multitude of results in recent decades. This book provides a comprehensive account of this quickly developing area...
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Cy Tymony, author of the best-selling Sneaky Uses series, brings his unique, fun hands-on learning approach to all things math.
Many people fear math and numbers, even Barbie, who famously said "Math class is tough" in her controversial 1992 talking doll version. But in Sneaky Math, Cy Tymony takes tough and turns it into triumph. He shows us how math is all around us through intriguing and easy projects, including twenty pass-along tools to complement...
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The Magic Square has been around for at least a thousand years, and there have been many great mathematical and scientific minds that have played with them. The purpose of the book isn't to teach you a few parlor tricks that will make you the star of some late-night mathematical party (although you could do that with what you will learn here). Instead, this book reveals some of the patterns, relationships, and symmetries that make up the methods,...
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