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En este libro se reunen cuatro ensayos que permiten entender los factores que originaron la crisis y las circunstancias que determinaron que sus consecuencias para la region fueran aun mas graves que las de la Gran Depresion de los anos treinta. En el...

This volume contains the proceedings of the conference Homotopy Theory: Tools and Applications, in honor of Paul Goerss's 60th birthday, held from July 17-21, 2017, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.The articles cover a...

Every mathematician is a person with a story. Limitless Minds tells those stories in an engaging way by featuring interviews with twelve leading mathematicians. They were invited to answer some key questions such as: Who and what were the influences that...

This book explains some recent applications of the theory of polynomials and algebraic geometry to combinatorics and other areas of mathematics. One of the first results in this story is a short elegant solution of the Kakeya problem for finite fields,...

This book is a celebration of mathematical problem solving at the level of the high school American Invitational Mathematics Examination. There is no other book on the market focused on the AIME. It is intended, in part, as a resource for comprehensive...

What can you do with a degree in math? This book addresses this question with 125 career profiles written by people with degrees and backgrounds in mathematics. With job titles ranging from sports analyst to science writer to inventory specialist to CEO,...

Why are mathematicians drawn to art? How do they perceive it? What motivates them to pursue excellence in music or painting? Do they view their art as a conveyance for their mathematics or an escape from it? What are the similarities between mathematical...

Climate modeling and simulation teach us about past, present, and future conditions of life on Earth and help us understand observations about ecology and the atmosphere. Focusing on high-end modeling and simulation of earth's climate, this book presents...

The soul of mathematics is the practice of skeptical inquiry: asking how and why things work, experimenting, exploring, and discovering. Estimation, analysis, computation, conjecture, and proof are the mathematical path to uncovering truth and we can use...

This book gives a comprehensive introduction to the theory of smooth manifolds, maps, and fundamental associated structures with an emphasis on ``bare hands'' approaches, combining differential-topological cut-and-paste procedures and applications of...

This book is an introduction to techniques and results in diagrammatic algebra. It starts with abstract tensors and their categorifications, presents diagrammatic methods for studying Frobenius and Hopf algebras, and discusses their relations with...

A TeXas Style Introduction to Proof is an IBL textbook designed for a one-semester course on proofs (the ``bridge course'') that also introduces TeX as a tool students can use to communicate their work. As befitting ``textless'' text, the book is, as one...

MATEMAX is a bilingual schoolbook of mathematical problems written with the premise that one of the fundamental ways of learning mathematics, in addition to being one of the goals of the subject, is to solve problems. The book is designed for children...

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference celebrating the work of Steven Boyer, held from June 2-8, 2018, at Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Boyer's contributions to research in low-dimensional geometry and topology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470451301Author Omayra OrtegaFormat PaperbackImprint American Mathematical SocietyPublisher American Mathematical Society

The ultimate goal of this book is to explain that the Grothendieck-Teichmuller group, as defined by Drinfeld in quantum group theory, has a topological interpretation as a group of homotopy automorphisms associated to the little 2-disc operad. To...

The route from an applied problem to its numerical solution involves modeling, analysis, discretization, and the solution of the discretized problem. This book concerns the interplay of these stages and the challenges that arise. The authors link...

Offers a first step assessment of individual topics to help teachers fit children into the current curriculum, whether at the beginning of the year, or topic, or with individual children who arrive at school during the year. Helps teachers, professionals...

This textbook is meant to introduce statistics to the general audience. It is also meant for the first college course in statistics irrespective of the student's area of study. The audience is assumed to have no higher mathematics background than college...

This is an eclectic compendium of the essays solicited for the 2010 Mathematics Awareness Month Web page on the theme of 'Mathematics and Sports'. In keeping with the goal of promoting mathematics awareness to a broad audience, all of the articles are...

For the instructor or student confronting an introductory course in ordinary differential equations there is a need for a brief guide to the key concepts in the subject. Important topics like stability, resonance, existence of periodic solutions, and the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816072743Author FergusonFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Facts On File IncPublisher Facts On File Inc

The Erd s problem asks, What is the smallest possible number of distinct distances between points of a large finite subset of the Euclidean space in dimensions two and higher? The main goal of this book is to introduce the reader to the techniques,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088037348Author Marcus BlackwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

Introduces basic concepts of Infant Maths as required throughout the Caribbean.Book InformationISBN 9780748715558Author Walter PhillipsPage Count 64Imprint Nelson Thornes LtdPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 270mm * 202mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789971504199Author Peter GoddardFormat HardbackPage Count 604Imprint EPB Publishers Pte LtdPublisher EPB Publishers Pte Ltd

Why do leopards grow spots when tigers grow stripes? Is the universe round, square, or some other shape? How do the dimples in a golf ball give it greater lift? Is there such a thing as a public mood? If so, how can we accurately take its pulse?Only one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888153012Author Daniel StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Paideia PressPublisher Paideia PressWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

While the architecture of present-day parallel supercomputers is largely based on the concept of a shared memory, with its attendant limitations of common access, advances in semicoductor technology have led to the development of highly parellel computer...

Since 2001 the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa has organized the "Colloquio De Giorgi", a series of colloquium talks named after Ennio De Giorgi. The Colloquio is addressed to a general mathematical audience, and especially meant to attract graduate...

In the 20th century philosophy of mathematics has to a great extent been dominated by views developed during the so-called foundational crisis in the beginning of that century. These views have primarily focused on questions pertaining to the logical...

Since 2001 the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa has organized the "Colloquio De Giorgi", a series of colloquium talks named after Ennio De Giorgi. The Colloquio is addressed to a general mathematical audience, and especially meant to attract graduate...

Since 2001 the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa has organized the "Colloquio De Giorgi", a series of colloquium talks named after Ennio De Giorgi. The Colloquio is addressed to a general mathematical audience, and especially meant to attract graduate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781260522402Author Julie MillerImprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 5g

MATHEMATICAL EXCURSIONS, 3E, International Edition teaches students that mathematics is a system of knowing and understanding our surroundings. For example, sending information across the Internet is better understood when one understands prime numbers;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606921791Author Albert R BaswellFormat HardbackPage Count 345Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 946g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606920169Author Toka DiaganaFormat HardbackPage Count 251Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 690g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606920152Author Toka DiaganaFormat HardbackImprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 750g