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A Student's Guide to the Study, Practice, and Tools of Modern Mathematics provides an accessible introduction to the world of mathematics. It offers tips on how to study and write mathematics as well as how to use various mathematical tools, from LaTeX...

Why do we count the way we do? What is a prime number or a friendly, perfect, or weird one? How many are there and who has found the largest yet known? What is the Baffling Law of Benford and can you really believe it? Do most numbers you meet in every...

The Baseball Mysteries: Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives is a book of baseball puzzles, logical baseball puzzles. To jump in, all you need is logic and a casual fan's knowledge of the game. The puzzles are solved by reasoning from the rules of...

This textbook, covering the basic mathematics taught to first-year students of science and engineering, reflects the growing awareness that ancillary mathematics should not be taught in isolation from its applications. Topics covered include calculus,...

This book lays the foundation for a theory of uniformization of p-adic hyperbolic curves and their moduli. On one hand, this theory generalizes the Fuchsian and Bers uniformizations of complex hyperbolic curves and their moduli to nonarchimedian places...

This SPMG/SSMG mathematics course for 5- to 14-year-olds covers the requirements of the National Curriculum, the Mathematics 5-14 Curriculum for Scotland and the Northern Ireland Common Curriculum. Years 1 to 6 of the course include teacher's notes, an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486652184Author Herman ChernoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

This book gives a rigorous and practical treatment of integral equations. These are significant because they occur in many problems in mathematics, physics and engineering and they offer a powerful (sometimes the only) technique for solving these...

This entertaining book presents a collection of 180 famous mathematical puzzles and intriguing elementary problems that great mathematicians have posed, discussed, and/or solved. The selected problems do not require advanced mathematics, making this book...

This new volume of What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences features a rich selection of articles about recent topics in pure and applied mathematics."Expanding Horizons" and "Needles in an Infinite Haystack" explain new developments in the theory...

Monoidal category theory serves as a powerful framework for describing logical aspects of quantum theory, giving an abstract language for parallel and sequential composition, and a conceptual way to understand many high-level quantum phenomena. This text...

"The IMO Compendium" is the ultimate collection of challenging high-school-level mathematics problems and is an invaluable resource not only for high-school students preparing for mathematics competitions, but for anyone who loves and appreciates...

Longman Advanced Mathematics is a series of comprehensive texts, with books for each of the AQA main courses that started in September 2004. The series develops core mathematical skills through an abundance of clear worked examples and progressive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628459685Author Tpb PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Test Prep BooksPublisher Test Prep BooksWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262570152Author Irving John GoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 327g

SPATIAL ANALYSIS Explore the foundations and latest developments in spatial statistical analysis In Spatial Analysis, two distinguished authors deliver a practical and insightful exploration of the statistical investigation of the interdependence of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783833495373Author Peter Kohl-LandgrafFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

This unique book presents a particularly beautiful way of looking at special relativity. The author encourages students to see beyond the formulas to the deeper structure.The unification of space and time introduced by Einstein's special theory of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486457819Author Z a MelzakFormat PaperbackPage Count 683Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 718gDimensions(mm)...

In this truly one-of-a-kind book, Ascher introduces the mathematical ideas of people in traditional, or "small-scale", cultures often omitted from discussion of mathematics. Topics such as "Numbers: Words and Symbols", "Tracing Graphs in the Sand", "The...

Defines basic terms and elementary matrices manipulation, introduces the concept of linear dependence, and explains eigenvalues and eigenvectors with illustrated examples. Book InformationISBN 9780803920521Author Krishnan NamboodiriFormat PaperbackPage...

This fantastic learning book has been compiled by a highly experienced teacher and educational consultant, and each concept is explained in a fun way with delightful illustrations. Match numerals to numbers in words, count and recognize tens and units,...

Wondrous One Sheet Origami is a how-to book full of beautiful origami designs covering a wide range of folding levels from simple to high intermediate, with more emphasis on the latter. The book is meant for audiences 12 years of age and above, and...

This unique book presents mathematical competition problems primarily aimed at upper elementary school students, but are challenging for students at any age. These problems are drawn from the complete papers of the legendary Leningrad Mathematical...

This second edition of Lessons in Play reorganizes the presentation of the popular original text in combinatorial game theory to make it even more widely accessible. Starting with a focus on the essential concepts and applications, it then moves on to...

Sophus Lie (1842-1899) is without doubt one of Norway's greatest scientific talents. His mathematical works have made him famous around the world no less than Niels Henrik Abel. The terms Lie groups and Lie algebra are today part of the standard...

Quantum cohomology has its origins in symplectic geometry and algebraic geometry, but is deeply related to differential equations and integrable systems. This text explains what is behind the extraordinary success of quantum cohomology, leading to its...

Spherical Geometry and Its Applications introduces spherical geometry and its practical applications in a mathematically rigorous form. The text can serve as a course in spherical geometry for mathematics majors. Readers from various academic backgrounds...

Providing an alternative to engineering-focused resources in the area, Programming Mathematics Using MATLAB (R) introduces the basics of programming and of using MATLAB (R) by highlighting many mathematical examples. Emphasizing mathematical concepts...

Problem Solving is essential to solve real-world problems. Advanced Problem Solving with Maple: A First Course applies the mathematical modeling process by formulating, building, solving, analyzing, and criticizing mathematical models. It is intended for...

This is an exciting if not rambling account of events of Raymond Smullyan's four lives - as a mathematical logician, musician, magician, and author - together with thoughts that come to his mind as he recalls them. This book includes topics from some of...

Praise for the previous edition[. . .] Dr. Popko's elegant new book extends both the science and the art of spherical modeling to include Computer-Aided Design and applications, which I would never have imagined when I started down this fascinating and...

The theory of Riemann surfaces has a geometric and an analytic part. The former deals with the axiomatic definition of a Riemann surface, methods of construction, topological equivalence, and conformal mappings of one Riemann surface on another. The...

An Outline of a General Theory of Models. Translation of Stabilit tructurelle et Morphog'se.About the AuthorRene Thom, professor at I.H.E.S., Bures-sur-Yvette since 1963, he was born in Montbeliard, France on September 2, 1923. Professor Thom studied at...

The name of Bernard Riemann is well known to mathematicians and physicists around the world. His name is indelibly stamped on the literature of mathematics and physics. This remarkable work, rich in insight and scholarship, is addressed to...

The book consists of thirty lectures on diverse topics, covering much of the mathematical landscape rather than focusing on one area. The reader will learn numerous results that often belong to neither the standard undergraduate nor graduate curriculum...

This introductory graduate text covers modern mathematical logic from propositional, first-order and infinitary logic and Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems to extensive introductions to set theory, model theory and recursion (computability) theory. Based...

This book aims to develop models and modeling techniques that are useful when applied to all complex systems. It adopts both analytic tools and computer simulation. The book is intended for students and researchers with a variety of backgrounds.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927763179Author Robert GerochFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Minkowski Institute PressPublisher Minkowski Institute PressWeight(grams)...

"Not the least unexpected thing about Mathematics and the Unexpected is that a real mathematician should write not just a literate work, but a literary one."-Ian Stewart, New Scientist"In this brief, elegant treatise, assessable to anyone who likes to...