Mathematics

With its emphasis on examples, exercises and calculations, this book suits advanced undergraduates as well as postgraduates and practitioners. It provides a clear treatment of the scope and limitations of mean-variance portfolio theory and introduces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486655376Author A. M. YaglomFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

This textbook emphasizes the interplay between algebra and geometry to motivate the study of advanced linear algebra techniques. Matrices and linear transformations are presented as two sides of the same coin, with their connection motivating inquiry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615992751Author Kenneth J M MacLeanFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Loving Healing PressPublisher Loving Healing PressWeight(grams)...

Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119401308Author Michael J. CampbellFormat PaperbackImprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher John Wiley and Sons LtdWeight(grams) 138g

The Turin Shroud is the most important and studied relic in the world. Many papers on it have recently appeared in important scientific journals. Scientific studies on the relic until today fail to provide conclusive answers about the identity of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780950273426Author J. W. S. CasselsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint London Mathematical SocietyPublisher London Mathematical SocietyWeight(grams) 524g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262028134Author David I. SpivakFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 21mm

Probabilistic models have much to offer to philosophy. We continually receive information from a variety of sources: from our senses, from witnesses, from scientific instruments. When considering whether we should believe this information, we assess...

This book provides in-depth coverage of Pure Mathematics 2 & 3 for Cambridge International AS and A Level Mathematics 9709, for examination from 2020 onwards. With a clear focus on mathematics in life and work, this text builds the key mathematical...

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Every futures, options, and stock markets trader operates under a set of highly suspect rules and assumptions. Are you risking your career on yours? Exceptionally clear and easy to use, The Mathematics of Money Management substitutes precise mathematical...

Four-Dimensional Manifolds and Projective Structure may be considered first as an introduction to differential geometry and, in particular, to 4−dimensional manifolds, and secondly as an introduction to the study of projective structure and projective...

In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book has become the definitive work on the subject of mathematical games. Now carefully revised and broken down...

A mystery lands - literally - at Tom Winscombe's feet, and another riotous mathematical adventure begins... Tom Winscombe and Dorothy Chan haven't managed to go on a date for some time, so it's a shame that their outing to a Promenade Concert is cut...

A fascinating exploration of the pentagon and its role in various culturesThe pentagon and its close cousin, the pentagram, have inspired individuals for the last two and half millennia, from mathematicians and philosophers to artists and naturalists...

Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: MathematicsFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2017Endorsed by Edexcel Help students to develop their knowledge, skills and understanding so that they can reason mathematically, communicate mathematical...

Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: Physics First Teaching: 2017, First Exam: 2018 Covers all required techniques and apparatus...

An engrossing look at the history and importance of a centuries-old but still unanswered math problemFor centuries, mathematicians the world over have tried, and failed, to solve the zeta-3 problem. Math genius Leonhard Euler attempted it in the 1700s...

Several generations of students of algebraic geometry have learned the subject from David Mumford's fabled "Red Book" containing notes of his lectures at Harvard University. Their genesis and evolution are described in the preface as:Initially notes to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486469317Author Philip MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, radio, TV, computer games and fluctuating literacy rates, the book has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robust and culturally relevant way to...

Like it or not, maths is a part of everyday life. Whether we learned only basic arithmetic, or went on to study calculus and beyond, we need it, and use it, constantly. But only very rarely were we taught its back story.From the theories of Pythagoras...

Bootstrap methods are computer-intensive methods of statistical analysis, which use simulation to calculate standard errors, confidence intervals, and significance tests. The methods apply for any level of modelling, and so can be used for fully...

This textbook provides a simple introduction to mechanics for students coming to the subject for the first time. The text is based on courses given to first and second year undergraduates and has been written with this audience in mind. Prerequisites are...

X and the City, a book of diverse and accessible math-based topics, uses basic modeling to explore a wide range of entertaining questions about urban life. How do you estimate the number of dental or doctor's offices, gas stations, restaurants, or movie...

The discrepancy method is the glue that binds randomness and complexity. It is the bridge between randomized computation and discrepancy theory, the area of mathematics concerned with irregularities in distributions. The discrepancy method has played a...

Does the sight of your child's maths homework fill you with dread? Do you look for any excuse when they ask you to explain equations, fractions or multiplication? Maths can often leave children - and parents - perplexed.How to do Maths so Your Children...

This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the men responsible for them. Volume 1 looks at the discipline's origins in Babylon and Egypt, the creation of geometry and trigonometry by the Greeks, and the...

Taking a direct route, "Essential Topology" brings the most important aspects of modern topology within reach of a second-year undergraduate student. It begins with a discussion of continuity and, by way of many examples, leads to the celebrated "Hairy...

Newton's Notebook is a biography with a difference. It provides a full and detailed account of Sir Isaac Newton's life and discoveries, but is written, designed and illustrated to look like a personal notebook.By mining the rich sources of Newton's own...

The theory of elliptic curves is distinguished by its long history and by the diversity of the methods that have been used in its study. This book treats the arithmetic approach in its modern formulation, through the use of basic algebraic number theory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262650403Author Martin J. OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

From the Introduction. In 1931 there appeared in a German scientific periodical a relatively short paper with the forbidding title ""Uber formal unentscheidbare Satze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme"" (""On...

Interactions between species are of fundamental importance to all living systems and the framework we have for studying these interactions is community ecology. This is important to our understanding of the planets biological diversity and how species...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486411835Author Boyd BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 949gDimensions(mm)...

Generating functions, one of the most important tools in enumerative combinatorics, are a bridge between discrete mathematics and continuous analysis. Generating functions have numerous applications in mathematics, especially in - Combinatorics -...

Concentration inequalities for functions of independent random variables is an area of probability theory that has witnessed a great revolution in the last few decades, and has applications in a wide variety of areas such as machine learning, statistics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591846512Author Samuel ArbesmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CurrentPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 228g