Berlin: Springer, 2024. — 146 p. This book illustrates key mathematical aspects of the Golden Ratio: It particularly delves into geometric and number theoretical connections and examples, and makes further considerations and generalizations accessible. The book is primarily aimed at students, pupils, mathematics teachers, and interested laypeople. It is modular in structure, so...
Prometheus Books, 2013. — 296 p. Objective of this book is to entertain the reader with a collection of wrong conclusions—or fallacies—that help us to better understand important aspects of or concepts in mathematics. It is through these “mistakes” that we should get a much better insight of and appreciation for of the subject matter. Some “mistakes” can lead to very...
London: Penguin, 2019. — 256 p. List of Illustrations Losing Track of Time Engineering Mistakes Little Data Out of Shape You Can’t Count on It Does Not Compute Probably Wrong Put Your Money Where Your Mistakes Are A Round-about Way 9.49 Too Small to Notice Units, Conventions, and Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? Stats the Way I Like It Tltloay Rodanm Does Not Compute So, what...
Prometheus Books, 2016. — 330 p. — ISBN 1-63388-149-0, 978-1-63388-149-5. This sampler of entertaining mathematical diversions reveals the elegance and extraordinary usefulness of mathematics for readers who think they have no aptitude for the subject. If you like any kind of game at all, you’ll enjoy the amazing mathematical puzzles and patterns presented here in...
Birkhäuser Cham, 2024. — 195 p. — eBook ISBN 978-3-031-58916-4. Explores what mathematics is really about in the form of short and entertaining vignettes Covers a broad range of mathematical topics with a light and often humorous style Illustrates concepts using real-world examples, ranging from barbershops to President James Garfield This book answers, in the form of short and...
Basic Books, 2024. — 514 р. — ISBN 978-1-4051-8645-2. One of the preeminent mathematicians of the past half century shows how physics and math were combined to give us the theory of gravity and the dizzying array of ideas and insights that has come from it Mathematics is far more than just the language of science. It is a critical underpinning of nature. The famed physicist...
Alexandria: ASCD, 2016. — 64 p. In this brief look at mathematics, let's think together about what it takes for every teacher to help every student become a mathematical thinker. In Making Sense of Math, Cathy L. Seeley, former president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, shares her insight into how to turn your students into flexible mathematical thinkers and...
William Morrow & Company, 2024 272 pages A comprehensive new illustrated guide to geometry — from New York Times best-selling cartoonist Larry Gonick What's the point of points? Where do we draw the line? If there are two sides to everything, then what's up with triangles, squares, and polygons? Once again, mathematician-turned-cartoonist Larry Gonick uses his unique gift for...
Crow's Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2023. — 682 p. — ISBN 978 1 83895 891 6. A collection of 365 numerical nuggets – one for each day of the year. Did you know: Only around 100 people have ever lived beyond a million hours (that’s about 114 years) Around 7% of everyone who has ever lived is currently alive The ’12 days of Christmas’ song, when sung in full, results in 364 gifts being...
4th Estate, 2023. — 773 р. — ISBN: 9780008525910 Brilliantly clear and captivating prose' Stephen Fry An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and why we love to play them. Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors? Spanning millennia, oceans and continents,...
Birkhäuser, 2023. — 263 p. — ISBN: 978-3-031-31491-9. Why is the Devil thrilled when Hell gets its first mathematician? How do 6 and 27 solve the diabolical murder of 9? What are the advantages a vampire has in the math world? What happens when we run out of new math to discover? How does Dr. Frankenstein create the ideal mathematical creature? What transpires when a grad...
Profile Books, 2023. — 336 p. From imaginary numbers to the perplexing order of operations we all had drilled into us, Eugenia Cheng - mathematician, writer and woman on a mission to rid the world of maths phobia - brings us maths as we've never seen it before, revealing how profound insights can emerge from seemingly unlikely sources. Written with intelligence and passion, Is...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 966 р. — ISBN 978-06-91-243-368 The discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the infinite, incompleteness, and chaos theory revealed that, despite its reputation for certainty, mathematical truth is not immutable, perfect, or even perfectible. Beginning in the last century, a handful of adventurous playwrights took inspiration from the...
Independently published, 2023. — 152 p. — ISBN 979-8375396880. Would you like to be a proficient mathematician… without using numbers? There is so much more to math than geometry and calculus! It is present in almost every life aspect, from improving your communication skills to how to fit your luggage into your car. Did you always hate math because you couldn’t understand...
Springer Spektrum, 2021. — 190 S. MINT-Kompetenz (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften, Technik) ist der Schlüssel zur Zukunft. Aber warum Mathematik? Dieses Buch gibt die Antwort anhand von Beispielen aus Alltag, Natur und Technik. Es präsentiert und diskutiert Fallstudien aus verschiedensten Bereichen mit Mitteln der Höheren Mathematik. Dabei zeigt sich die Macht der...
Springer Cham, 2023. — 160 p. — (Springer Texts in Education) — eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97600-2. The book takes us on a fascinating journey through one of the most beautiful and fascinating topics of mathematics. It presents a wealth of information about the golden ratio and the Fibonacci sequence. The book introduces the reader to novel perspectives to classic mathematical...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. — 192 p. — ISBN 019284508X. What makes mathematics so special? Whether you have anxious memories of the subject from school, or solve quadratic equations for fun, David Acheson's book will make you look at mathematics afresh. Following on from his previous bestsellers, The Calculus Story and The Wonder Book of Geometry, here Acheson...
Flatiron Books, 2023. — 304 p. — ISBN 978-1-250-85088-1, 978-1-250-85089-8. For fans of Seven Brief Lessons in Physics, an exploration of the many ways mathematics can transform our understanding of literature and vice versa, by the first woman to hold England's oldest mathematical chair. We often think of mathematics and literature as polar opposites. But what if, instead,...
Riverhead Books, 2021. — 336 p. Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That’s a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. We shouldn’t be suspicious of statistics—we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are, at heart, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often “the only...
Springer, 2023. — 176 p. — ISBN 978-1-0716-2775-4. Невидимая сила математики: всепроникающее влияние математической инженерии на повседневную жизнь How does homebanking work? How are board games developed? How reliable can wind energy get? How do we discover forged paintings? Do smart girls stay single? How dangerous can a bioterrorist get? In all these questions (and many...
Doubleday, 1976. — 280 p. — ISBN 9780385120746, 0385120745. In his clear, informal, engaging style, Isaac Asimov explains historic brainteasers and numerical oddities in the fascinating universe of numbers. From man's first act of counting to higher mathematics, from the smallest living creature to the dazzling reaches of outer space, Asimov is a master at "explaining complex...
Houghton Mifflin, 1964. — 190 p. Describes shortcuts to use in solving problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, and fractions Why Shortcuts? Addition Naming the Parts of Addition Carrying Adding Left to Right Round Numbers Checking Addition Subtraction Addition in Reverse Checking Subtraction Multiplication The Multiplication Table Beyond the...
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2023. — 233 р. — ISBN 978-0262373739. Ingeniously designed mathematical riddles to delight armchair—and seasoned—mathematicians, in high school and beyond. In The Price of Cake, brothers Clément and Guillaume Deslandes have assembled a uniquely rich and accessible collection of mathematical riddles, organized by difficulty and accompanied by unique...
World Scientific Publishing, 2023. — 225 р. — (Problem Solving In Mathematics And Beyond, 28). — ISBN 978-981-125-547-2. Seduction is not just an end result, but a process — and in mathematics, both the end results and the process by which those end results are achieved are often charming and elegant. This helps to explain why so many people — not just those for whom math plays...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; For Dummies, 2023. — 419 p. — ISBN 978-1-119-98639-3. It’s not too late to learn new math tricks - and help kids learn them, too! Teaching Your Kids New Math, Grades 6-8, For Dummies teaches you the new standard way of teaching kids math. It’s all about thinking through how to solve problems and using strategies, rather than just memorizing the...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2022. — 384 p. — eBook ISBN 978-1-5266-2297-6. An engaging and imaginative tour through the fundamental mathematical concepts―from arithmetic to infinity―that form the building blocks of our universe. Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from...
W. W. Norton, 2022. — 384 p. An engaging and imaginative tour through the fundamental mathematical concepts—from arithmetic to infinity—that form the building blocks of our universe. Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing—no matter, no cosmos, not even empty...
Basic Books, 2022. — 818 p. — ISBN 978-1541-6006-83 What comes to mind when you think about algebra? For many of us, it’s memories of dull or frustrating classes in high school. Award-winning mathematics professor G. Arnell Williams is here to change that. Algebra the Beautiful is a journey into the heart of fundamental math that proves just how amazing this subject really is....
New York: Springer, 2014. — 292 p. — ISBN 9781461489399, 9781461489382, 1461489393. Mathematics is a poem. It is a lucid, sensual, precise exposition of beautiful ideas directed to specific goals. It is worthwhile to have as broad a cross-section of mankind as possible be conversant with what goes on in mathematics. Just as everyone knows that the Internet is a powerful and...
Princeton University Press, 2004. — 288 p. — ISBN 0-691-11966-X, 978-0-691-11966-3. A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight. In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof or finding an unknown can be of help in attacking any problem that can...
DK Publishing, 2022. — 160 p. — ISBN 9780744056112. Introducing an off-beat guide to math from award-winning author and illustrator David Macaulay. Math is all around you…if you look closely enough! From computer games to bridges, shopping malls to game shows, mathematics truly is everywhere. David Macauley’s terrific troupe of curious mammoths will lead you through the basics...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. — 352 p. — ISBN 13 9780374600563. Фантастические числа и где их найти: космический квест от нуля до бесконечности A fun, dazzling exploration of the strange numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality. For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, or Albert Einstein, the search for...
Courier Corporation, 1985. — 641 p. — (Dover books explaining science). — ISBN 9780486248233, 0486248232. Practical, scientific, philosophical, and artistic problems have caused men to investigate mathematics. But there is one other motive which is as strong as any of these — the search for beauty. Mathematics is an art, and as such affords the pleasures which all the arts...
Epublibre, 2019. Éste es un libro para jugar mientras aprenden a resolver problemas matemáticos o, si lo prefieren, para aprender matemáticas mientras se juega. Alguien puede pensar que sus conocimientos aritméticos son insuficientes, o que con el tiempo ya se han olvidado para disfrutar del contenido de Matemáticas recreativas. ¡Se equivoca completamente! El propósito de esta...
3rd Edition. — New York: Kaplan, Inc., Barrons Educational Series, 2021. — 352 p. — (Barron's Painless). — ISBN-13 9781506273198. Безболезненное исчисление Whether you’re a student or an adult looking to refresh your knowledge, Barron’s Painless Calculus provides review and practice in an easy, step-by-step format. An essential resource for: Virtual Learning Homeschool Learning...
Oneword books, 2022. — 410 p. — ISBN 978-0-86154-305-2 We all know that numbers go on forever, that you could spend your life counting and never reach the end of the line, so there can’t be such a thing as a ‘biggest number’. Or can there? To find out, David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee embark on an epic quest, revealing the answers to questions like: are there more grains of...
М.: Манн, Иванов и Фербер, 2022. — 256 с. — (Наука для всех). — ISBN 978-5-00169-565-3. Для любопытного читателя, который стремится развить математическое и критическое мышление, для всех, кто хочет разобраться, как устроен и работает наш мозг, для каждого, кто хочет уметь отсеивать информационный шум и мусор в потоке новостей. Введение Знакомимся с неприятностями Знакомимся со...
Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2022. — 368 p. — ISBN-13 9780762499861. Bestselling author and worst-drawing artist Ben Orlin expands his oeuvre with this interactive collection of mathematical games. With 70-plus games, each taking a minute to learn and a lifetime to master, this treasure trove will delight, educate, and entertain. From beloved math popularizer Ben Orlin comes a...
Harper Perennial, 2009. — 400 p. — ISBN 0-00-721462-6, 978-0-00-721462-4, 978-0-00-738087-9. This new ebook from the author of ' The Music of the Primes ' combines a personal insight into the mind of a working mathematician with the story of one of the biggest adventures in mathematics: the search for symmetry. This is the story of how humankind has come to its understanding of...
3rd Edition. — Jossey-Bass, 2022. — 336 p. — ISBN 978-1-119-71919-9. A comprehensive and hands-on guide to crucial math concepts and terminology In the newly revised third edition of All the Math You’ll Ever Need: A Self-Teaching Guide, veteran math and computer technology teacher Carolyn Wheater and veteran mathematics author Steve Slavin deliver a practical and accessible...
2nd ed. — Oxford University Press, 1996. — 588 p. — ISBN 0-19-510519-2, 978-0195105193. For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave danger. The teaching and learning of...
New York: Springer, 2020. — 321 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-50651-3. This is a book about the mathematical nature of our Universe. Armed with no more than basic high school mathematics, Dr. Joel L. Schiff takes you on a foray through some of the most intriguing aspects of the world around us. Along the way, you will visit the bizarre world of subatomic particles, honey bees and ants,...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 176 p. — (Very Short Introductions)ю — ISBN 978–0–19–968368–0. The study of geometry is at least 2500 years old, and it is within this field that the concept of mathematical proof - deductive reasoning from a set of axioms - first arose. To this day geometry remains a very active area of research in mathematics. This book provides a fresh modern...
Pantheon Books, 2021 – 336 p. — ISBN 9781524749002 An illuminating, millennia-spanning history of the impact mathematics has had on the world, and the fascinating people who have mastered its inherent power, from Babylonian tax officials to the Apollo astronauts to the eccentric professor who invented the infrastructure of the online world. Counting is not innate to our nature,...
Robinson, St. Martin's Press, 2017. — 303 p. — ISBN 9781250081049, 1472139771. Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them? Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own,...
Scientific American, 2021. — 400 p. — ISBN 978-1-948933-32-2. Galileo said that mathematics is the language of nature. This eBook examines math across disciplines, exploring how math is the backbone connecting the physical, social and economic worlds. From practical questions about the significance of p values and using math to fight gerrymandering to the top theoretical...
М.: Московский центр непрерывного математического образования (МЦНМО), 1999. — 24 с. — (Математическое просвещение, выпуск 2). Знаменитые проблемы, сформулированные Давидом Гильбертом на Парижском международном математическом конгрессе 1900-го года, оказали определяющее влияние на развитие математики XX столетия. Одна из целей этой брошюры - показать, что многие известные и...
Joat Enterprises, 2021. — 336 p. — ISBN 9781781259412. Many people think mathematics is useless. They're wrong. In the UK, the 2.8 million people employed in mathematical science occupations contributed 1208 billion to the economy in a single year — that's 10 per cent of the workforce contributing 16 per cent of the economy. What's the Use? asks why there is such a vast gulf...
Sterling Publishing Co., 2013. — 496 p. — ISBN 1-4027-9322-7, 978-1-4027-9328-8. From the archives of the world's most famous newspaper comes a collection of its very best writing on mathematics. Big and informative, The New York Times Book of Mathematics gathers more than 110 articles written from 1892 to 2010 that cover statistics, coincidences, chaos theory, famous problems,...
Independently published, 2021. — 443 p. — ASIN B09BLV42X4. Hello and welcome to The Complete Course On Math Fundamentals - 2021. This practice workbook is carefully created to cover the complete Basic Math and Pre-Algebra. If you're looking to build a strong math foundation so you can be ready for Algebra, or Pre-Algebra, High School Math Courses and Middle School Math Courses,...
Алисторус, 2020. — 610 с. — (Квант науки). — ISBN 978-5-907255-12-8. Автор теоремы, сводившей с ума в течение века математиков всего мира, рассказывает о своем понимании науки и искусства. Как выглядит мир, с точки зрения математики? Как разрешить все проблемы человечества посредством простых исчислений? В чем заключается суть небесной механики? Обо всем этом читайте в книге!
CRC Press, 2021. — 464 p. — ISBN 9780367185961. Tessellations: Mathematics, Art and Recreation aims to present a comprehensive introduction to tessellations (tiling) at a level accessible to non-specialists. Additionally, it covers techniques, tips, and templates to facilitate the creation of mathematical art based on tessellations. Inclusion of special topics like spiral...
New York: Springer, 2021. — 370 p. — ISBN 978-3-662-62688-7. The book offers a variety of suggestions to think about what is depicted and to experiment in order to make and check your own assumptions. For many topics, no (or only few) prerequisites from school lessons are needed. It is an important concern of the book that young people find their way to mathematics and that...
Пер. с англ. А. Глущенко. — М.: Corpus, 2021. — 577 с. — (Элементы 2.0) — ISBN 978-5-17-119879-4. Автор множества научно-популярных книг, астроном и музыкант Дэвид Дарлинг и необычайно одаренный молодой математик Агниджо Банерджи, в тринадцать лет набравший максимально возможное количество баллов в IQ-тесте общества интеллектуалов Менса, представляют свежий взгляд на мир...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 84 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–884643–7. In the words of the great poet Senghor, Cedric Villani makes the bold claim that Mathematics is the Poetry of Science. Perhaps paradoxical to some, both disciplines are concerned with describing the world around us, understanding its parts, and using this knowledge to create something profound. World-renowned...
2nd ed. — Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2018. — 328 p. — 978-1-1385-9621-4, 978-1-1385-8610-9. This book explores the history of mathematics from the perspective of the creative tension between common sense and the "impossible" as the author follows the discovery or invention of new concepts that have marked mathematical progress: - Irrational and Imaginary Numbers - The Fourth...
Independently published, 2021. — 191 p. — ISBN B08SSHLBMF. Vector analysis is a very useful and a powerful tool for physicists and engineers alike. It has applications in multiple fields. Although it is not a particularly difficult subject to learn, students often lack a proper understanding of the concepts on a deeper level. This restricts its usage to a mere mathematical...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2021. — 224 p. — ISBN 1-524745545, 978-1-524745547, 978-1-524745554. Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math—topology, analysis, and algebra—which turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This book upends the conventional approach to math, inviting you to think creatively...
2008 г. Эссе «Плач математика» написано Полом Локхартом, учителем математики в школе Св. Анны в Бруклине (шт. Нью-Йорк), в 2002 г. Перевод эссе Пола Локхарта «Плач математика» (Paul Lockhart. A Mathematician's Lament) о преподавании математики в средней школе. Хотя в сочинении говорится об американской современной средней школе, многие проблемы, идентифицируемые Локхартом,...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0-19-511842-7, 978-0-19-514237-2. A symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it’s added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. As we enter the year 2000, zero is once again making its presence felt. Nothing itself, it makes possible a myriad of calculations. Indeed, without zero mathematics as...
W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393-33928-4, 978-0-393-24199-0. The best-selling author of Infinite Jest on the two-thousand-year-old quest to understand infinity.One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings...
Atlantic Books, 2020. ― 288 p. ― ISBN: 978-1838950842. Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk assessments, inflation figures, weather and climate predictions and all sorts of political decisions and advice backed up by supposedly accurate numbers. Most of us do not even pause and...
Hachette UK, 2020. — 352 p. 'If you aren't in love with stats before reading this book, you will be by the time you're done. Powerful, persuasive, and in these truth-defying times, indispensable'Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women'Nobody makes the statistics of everyday life more fascinating and enjoyable than Tim Harford'Bill Bryson'Fabulously readable, lucid,...
Transworld Digital, 2017. — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-1473542624, 978-0857524607. How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list ? Can you predict Her Majesty's Christmas Message? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily thinner - shimmying up and down chimneys for a whole night - or fatter - as he tucks into a mince pie and a glass of...
Sterling, 2010. — 192 p. — (Brief insight). — ISBN: 978-1-4027-8216-9, 978-1-4027-6897-2. Mathematics is a subject we are all exposed to in our daily lives, but one that many of us fear. Timothy Gowers's entertaining overview of the topic explains the differences between what we learn at school and advanced mathematics, and helps the math phobic emerge with a clearer...
Icon Books, 2013. — 176 p. — ISBN13: 9781848314061, ISBN: 184831406X A brand new graphic guide from Brian Clegg, author of the best-selling Inflight Science, Introducing Infinity will teach you all you need to know about this big idea, from mathematicians driven mad by transfinite numbers to the ancient Greeks who drowned the man that discovered an endless number. Big numbers...
4th edition. — Icon Books, 2011. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848312970, ISBN13: 9781848312975. Introducing Mathematics traces the story of mathematics from the ancient world to modern times, describing the great discoveries and providing an accessible introduction to topics such as algebra and chaos theory.
Icon Books, 2005. — 195 p. — (Series: Introducing... A Graphic Guide Series #1). — ISBN10: 1848310560, ISBN13: 9781848317734. From the medicine we take, the treatments we receive, the aptitude and psychometric tests given by employers, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear to even the beer we drink, statistics have given shape to the world we inhabit. For the media, statistics...
Icon Books, 2005. — 196 p. — (Series: Introducing... A Graphic Guide Series #1). — ISBN10: 1848310870, ISBN13: 9781848310872. Fractal Geometry is the geometry of the natural world - animal, vegetable and mineral. It's about the broken, wrinkled, wiggly world - the uneven shapes of nature, unlike the idealized forms of Euclidean geometry. We see fractals everywhere; indeed we...
Anchor Books, 1997. — xviii, 315 p. — ISBN: 0-8027-1331-9, 978-0385493628. The riveting story of a mathematical problem that sprang from the study of the Pythagorean theorem developed in ancient Greece. The book follows mathematicians and scientists throughout history as they searched for new mathematical truths. In the 17th century, a French judicial assistant and amateur...
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. — 288 p. Football looked at in a very different way' Pat Nevin, former Chelsea and Everton star and football media analyst Football – the most mathematical of sports. From shot statistics and league tables to the geometry of passing and managerial strategy, the modern game is filled with numbers, patterns and shapes. How do we make sense of...
Prometheus Books, 2012. — 363 p. — ISBN13: 9781616144234. What exactly is the Golden Ratio? How was it discovered? Where is it found? These questions and more are thoroughly explained in this engaging tour of one of mathematics' most interesting phenomena. The authors trace the appearance of the Golden Ratio throughout history, demonstrate a variety of ingenious techniques used...
Quercus Publishing Plc Language, 2007. — 208 p. — (Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know). — ISBN13: 9781847240088. Beginning with zero itself and concluding with the last great unsolved problem, this book introduces the origins of mathematics from Egyptian fractions to Roman numerals; explains the near mystical significance of pi and primes, Fibonacci numbers and the golden...
Amazon, 2015. – 118 p. – (Math Shorts). — ISBN: 1520871767. "Math Dialogue: Functions" is a very gentle introduction to the concept of the function, written in form of a dialogue. This is an ideal approach for students who would like to understand the basics, but are unsatisfied with the common textbook format. The book contains three lessons. The function, as well as related...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 163 с. — (Наука и технический прогресс). За последнее столетие одно из центральных мест в математической науке заняла созданная немецким математиком Г. Кантором теория бесконечных множеств, понятия которой отражают наиболее общие свойства математических объектов. Однако в этой теории был вскрыт ряд парадоксов, вызвавших у многих видных ученых сомнения в...
Quercus Editions Ltd., 2019. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78747-541-0, 978-1-78747-539-7. Maths is the story of the world around us, and the wisdom it gives us can be the difference between success and disaster. We are all doing maths all the time, from the way we communicate with each other to the way we travel, from how we work to how we relax. Many of us are aware of this. But few...
Nicholas Brealey Publ., 2018. — 224 p. — (New Scientist Instant Expert). — ISBN: 978-1473670365. Think of a number between one and ten. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions and infinity suddenly gets an awful lot bigger...
Dover Publications Inc., 2014. — 192 p. — ISBN: 978-0-486-79173-9. There's more than one way to define a paradox, and this intriguing book offers examples of every kind. Stanley J. Farlow, a prominent educator and author, presents a captivating mix of mathematical paradoxes: the kind with surprising, nonintuitive outcomes; the variety that rely on mathematical sleight-of-hand...
Dover Publications, 1995. — 368 p. — (Dover Books on Mathematics). — ISBN: 0-486-28424-7, 978-0486284248. Some years ago, "new math" took the country's classrooms by storm. Based on the abstract, general style of mathematical exposition favored by research mathematicians, its goal was to teach students not just to manipulate numbers and formulas, but to grasp the underlying...
Basic Books, 2007. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0465082377, 978-0-465-08236-0, 0-465-08236-X. At the heart of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, and much of modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. In Why Beauty Is Truth, world-famous mathematician Ian Stewart narrates the history of the emergence of this remarkable area of study. Stewart introduces us to such...
Basic Books, 2013. — 353 p. — ISBN: 978-0-465-02240-3, 978-0-465-06599-8, 978-1-84668-1998. It is one of the wonders of mathematics that, for every problem mathematicians solve, another awaits to perplex and galvanize them. Some of these problems are new, while others have puzzled and bewitched thinkers across the ages. Such challenges offer a tantalizing glimpse of the field’s...
Quercus Publishing Plc., 2011. — 208 p. — (Big questions). — ISBN: 978-1-84916-610-2, 978-1-84916-240-1. The Big Questions series is designed to let renowned experts address the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy. Each 3000-word essay simply and concisely examines a question that has eternally perplexed enquiring minds,...
New York: DK Publishing, 2019. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1465494207, 978-1465480248. Discover more than 85 of the most important mathematical ideas, theorems, and proofs ever devised, and the great minds behind them, with this original, graphics-led book. Applying the Big Ideas Simply Explained series' trademark combination of authoritative, accessible text and bold graphics to...
Black Cone Publishing, 2013. — 163 p. — (50 Puzzles, Vol. 1). — ISBN: 978-0-9576484-0-1. In this brand-new Kindle book you will find 50 puzzles never published before in different categories: math, logical, word, geometry, code cracking, sticks and many others. All puzzles are created by the author and are exclusive to the Kindle platform. The majority of images are in...
The MIT Press, 2018. — 330 p. — ISBN: 978-0262536356. These stories from Quanta Magazine map the routes of mathematical exploration, showing readers how cutting-edge research is done, while illuminating the productive tension between conjecture and proof, theory and intuition. The stories show that, as James Gleick puts it in the foreword, “inspiration strikes willy-nilly.” One...
The Experiment, 2019. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61519-613-5, 978-1-61519-612-8. Why aren’t left-handers extinct? What makes a rainbow round? How is a pancreas...like a pendulum? Publisher's note: It's a Numberful World was published in Australia under the title Woo's Wonderful World of Maths. These may not look like math questions, but they are—because they all have to do with...
Dover Publications, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-0-486-83280-7. Equations are the lifeblood of mathematics, science, and technology, and this book examines equations of all kinds. With his masterful ability to convey the excitement and elegance of mathematics, author Boris Pritsker explores equations from the simplest to the most complex—their history, their charm, and their...
М.: Манн, Иванов и Фербер, 2016. — 320 с. — ISBN: 978-5-00100-034-1. Саймон Сингх рассказывает о самых интересных эпизодах мультсериала, в которых фигурируют важнейшие математические идеи – от числа пи и бесконечности до происхождения чисел и самых сложных проблем, над которыми работают современные математики. Книга будет интересна поклонникам сериала «Симпсоны» и всем, кто...
Metropolitan Books, 2000. — 264 p. — ISBN: 978-0805062991. In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that magically appear in triangles, and numbers that expand without. As we dream with him, we are taken further and further into...
Ivy Press, 2012. — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84831-386-6 From Rubik's cubes to Godel's incompleteness theorem, everything mathematical explained, with colour illustrations, in half a minute. Maths is enjoying a resurgence in popularity. So how can you avoid being the only dinner guest who has no idea who Fermat was, or what he proved? The more you know about Maths, the less of a...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-0008283957. In this international bestseller, Mickaël Launay mixes history and anecdotes from around the world to reveal how mathematics became pivotal to the story of humankind. It is a journey into numbers with Launay as a guide. In museums, monuments or train stations, he uses the objects around us to explain what art can...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. — 255 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-15282-0. Most popular books about science, and even about mathematics, tiptoe around equations as if they were something to be hidden from the reader's tender eyes. Dana Mackenzie starts from the opposite premise: He celebrates equations. No history of art would be complete without pictures. Why, then,...
HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2008. — 387 p. Combining a rich historical narrative with his own personal journey as a mathematician, Marcus du Sautoy takes a unique look into the mathematical mind as he explores deep conjectures about symmetry and brings us face-to-face with the oddball mathematicians, both past and present, who have battled to understand symmetry's elusive...
London: Bloomsbury, 2011. — 448 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4088-0959-4. The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird...
New York: Dover Publications, 2013. — 288 p. — (Dover Recreational Math). — ISBN: 9780486150789. Populated by curious creatures whose stories unfold with jokes and puns, this mathematical wonderland of puzzles and games also imparts significant mathematical ideas. Ian Stewart, an active popularizer of mathematics, university professor, and former columnist for Scientific...
Duncan Baird Publishing, 2019. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-1786781840. In this book, best-selling author and mathematician Haim Shapira will inspire you with his humorous and engaging exploration of infinity. Written in clear, simple language and aimed at a lay audience, this book also offers some strategies that will allow readers to try their ability at solving truly fascinating...
New York: Dover Publications, 2016. — 192 p. — (Dover Books on Mathematics). Equally appealing to beginners and to the mathematically adept, this book bridges the humanities and sciences to explore applications behind computers, cell phones, measurement of astronomical distance, cell growth, and other areas. Eight fascinating examples show how understanding certain topics in...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. — 144 p. Infinity is an intriguing topic, with connections to religion, philosophy, metaphysics, logic, and physics as well as mathematics. Its history goes back to ancient times, with especially important contributions from Euclid, Aristotle, Eudoxus, and Archimedes. The infinitely large (infinite) is intimately related to the infinitely...
Enslow Pub, 2009. — 128 р. — (Ace Your Physics Science Project). — ISBN: 978-0766032224. Each book picks the authors' best experiments for science classes, tests, and science fairs, in a series where full-color illustrations enhance easy-to-follow experiments that are augmented by safety guidelines. What is friction? What is the coriolis force? Young scientists will explore the...
New York, USA: Race Point Publishing, 2018. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-1-63106-486-9. The Golden Ratio examines the presence of this divine number in art and architecture throughout history, as well as its ubiquity among plants, animals, and even the cosmos. This gorgeous book—with layflat dimensions that closely approximate the golden ratio—features clear, enlightening, and...
Black Dog & Leventhal, 2018. — 400 p. A hilarious reeducation in mathematics-full of joy, jokes, and stick figures-that sheds light on the countless practical and wonderful ways that math structures and shapes our world. In Math With Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals to us what math actually is; its myriad uses, its strange symbols, and the wild leaps of logic and faith that define...
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. — 464 p. A book from the stand-up mathematician that makes math fun again! Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. Part of the problem may be the way the subject is taught, but it's also true that we all, to a greater or lesser extent, find math difficult and counterintuitive. This counterintuitiveness is...
Liberalis Books, 2015. — 362 p. —- (Secrets of Creation, Vol 1) —- ISBN: 978-1-78279-781-4. «The Mystery of the Prime Numbers» is the first of a trilogy originally intended to be a single book. The subject of this book is one of the oldest and most beautiful in mathematics. However, unlike the numerous popular books that have probed deeply into the beauty and mystery of the...
Penguin Group, 2014. — 332 p. — ISBN: 978-1-101-62161-5. Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to...
СПб.: Питер, 2015. — 352 с. — ISBN: 978-5-496-01121-1. Представьте, что вы хотите научиться живописи, а вам объясняют, как красиво и хорошо покрасить забор, вместо того чтобы показать картины Ван Гога, Пикассо или других великих художников, и даже не говорят вам о том, что они существуют. К сожалению, изучение математики в школах порой напоминает процесс наблюдения за тем, как...
Prometheus Books, 2018. — 424 p. Two experienced math educators help the average reader discover not only the everyday usefulness of math but the fun that comes from mastering the basics of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and more. If you think of mathematics as a series of pointless classroom exercises without much relevance to real life, this book will change your mind. As the...
London, GB: Michael O’Mara Books Lim., 2018. — 148 p. — ISBN: 1782438467. Let the real world show you how maths works. Maths is often cited as the 'most difficult' or 'complex' subject to study, many people admitting to a wariness that was probably ingrained into them in their schooldays. In Maths in Bite-sized Chunks, Chris Waring proves that it's easy to break the subject...
М.: Альпина Диджитал, 2015. — 460 c. — ISBN: 9785916713183. Закономерности простых чисел и теорема Ферма, гипотеза Пуанкаре и сферическая симметрия Кеплера, загадка числа Пи и орбитальный хаос в небесной механике. Многие из нас лишь краем уха слышали о таинственных и непостижимых загадках современной математики. Между тем, как ни парадоксально, фундаментальная цель этой науки –...
Basic Books, 2018. — 203 p. — ISBN10: 1541644786, ISBN13: 978-1541644786. A successful science writer and a teenage math prodigy reveal the complex mathematics that is all around us Everyone has stared at the crumpled page of a math assignment and wondered, where on Earth will I ever use this? It turns out, Earth is precisely the place. As teen math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and...
Пер. с нем. — Изд. 3-е, доп. — М.: Либроком, 2009. — 112 с. — ISBN: 978-5-397-00006-2. В книге рассматривается золотое сечение — как с точки зрения математики, так и с точки зрения эстетики. В первой части книги изложены в связной и законченной форме те соображения из области элементарной математики, которые относятся к золотому сечению. Во второй части подвергнуто критическому...
Cassell Illustrated, 2018. — 208 p. Everything you need to know about 100 key mathematical concepts condensed into easy-to-understand sound bites designed to stick in your memory and give you an instant grasp of the concept. On each topic, you'll start with a helicopter overview of the subject, which will give you an introduction to the idea and some context surrounding it. Next,...
Mariner Books, 2013. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0544105850; ISBN13: 978-0544105850. Many people take math in high school and promptly forget much of it. But math plays a part in all of our lives all of the time, whether we know it or not. In The Joy of x, Steven Strogatz expands on his hit New York Times series to explain the big ideas of math gently and clearly, with wit, insight, and...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 160 p. — ISBN10: 0198804547; ISBN13: 978-0198804543. Calculus is the key to much of modern science and engineering. It is the mathematical method for the analysis of things that change, and since in the natural world we are surrounded by change, the development of calculus was a huge breakthrough in the history of mathematics. But it is also...
Profile Books, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN: 184668532X. From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere and they are fundamental to everyday life.Seventeen Equations that Changed the World examines seventeen ground-breaking equations that have altered the course of human history. He explores how Pythagoras's...
К. : Наш формат, 2017. — 408 с. Математика — це не лише цифри, обчислення й правила, як могло здатися в школі. Професор Джордан Елленберґ доводить, що ця наука розкриває приховану красу й логіку всього, що нас оточує, і має прямий стосунок до нашого щоденного життя. Автор показує, як проблеми в політиці, медицині, бізнесі, богослов’ї вирішуються за допомогою математики. А ще з...
Basic Books, 2017. — 304 p. — ISBN13: 978-0465094813. Whether pondering why some numbers are uncountable, or why infinity + 1 is not the same as 1 + infinity, we've all asked the same question: What is infinity? In Beyond Infinity, Eugenia Cheng takes us on a staggering journey from elemental math to its loftiest abstractions. Along the way she considers how to use a chessboard...
Материал DigiLibraries.com, 2005. — 343 p. Развлечения по математике. When a man says, "I have never solved a puzzle in my life," it is difficult to know exactly what he means, for every intelligent individual is doing it every day. The unfortunate inmates of our lunatic asylums are sent there expressly because they cannot solve puzzles—because they have lost their powers of...
Enslow Publishers, 2014. — 85 p. — (Easy Genius Math). — ISBN10: 146440531X, 13 978-1464405310. Age Range: 9 - 15 years Grade Level: 4 - 10 Lexile Measure: 590L (What's this?) Learn to add and subtract mixed numbers and decimals. Pick up great tips for solving word problems. Add and subtract money and time values, and learn to estimate. You can read this book from beginning to...
Gill Books, 2017. — 343 p. — ISBN13: 978-0717169559. Mathematics isn't just for academics and scientists, a fact meteorologist and Irish Times columnist Professor Peter Lynch proves elegantly in this wide-ranging and unconventional ode to the numbers at the heart of everyday life. With chapters on everything from the stock market to CAT scans and coin-stacking to cartography,...
Penguin/Ebury Press, 2017. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0143427482, ISBN13: 978-0143427483. Mathematics is an integral part of our life but many of us think of it only as a subject to be studied in school or college. In this book, Aditi and Sudhir Singhal, renowned maths educators, demystify mathematical principles and outline fascinating, fun and easy-tolearn techniques to excel in this...
Lulu.com, 2014. — 276 p. Directly from the years-long research of two software engineers, a revolutionary book that will show you mathematics from a completely new point of view. You'll rapidly learn how to perform extremely complex calculations within a few seconds, you'll acquire precious key-competencies for the academic and business world and you'll see how many priceless...
New York: Dave Burgess Consulting, 2017. — 264 p. — ISBN: 9781946444042, 9781946444059, 1946444049, 1946444057. If you’ve ever heard a variation of that question from your students—or asked it yourself—this book is for you. Bringing technology into the classroom is about so much more than replacing overhead projectors and chalkboards with Smart Boards. Unfortunately, as...
Dover Publications, 1984. — 128 p. — ISBN13: 978-0486246116. Can you multiply 362 x .5 quickly in your head? Could you readily calculate the square of 41? How much is 635 divided by 2½? Can 727,648 be evenly divided by 8? If any of these questions took you more than a few seconds to solve, you need this book. Short-Cut Math is a concise, remarkably clear compendium of about 150...
Dover Publications, Inc, Mineoola, New York, USA, 2017. — 248 p. — ISBN13: 9780486218465 For decades, professionals in applied mathematics and mathematical puzzle fans from all over the world supplied provocative problems to the puzzle columns of the Graham Dial. Upon the appearance of an interesting problem, readers wrote in to the Dial suggesting new approaches to the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. — 144 p. — ISBN10: 0199584052; ISBN13: 978-0199584055. Numbers are integral to our everyday lives and factor into almost everything we do. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter M. Higgins, a renowned popular-science writer, unravels the world of numbers, demonstrating its richness and providing an overview of all the number types that...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 107 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 0199675988 From the contours of coastlines to the outlines of clouds, and the branching of trees, fractal shapes can be found everywhere in nature. In this Very Short Introduction, Kenneth Falconer explains the basic concepts of fractal geometry, which produced a revolution in our mathematical...
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2007. — 164 p. — ISBN: 0486462404. "Recommended with confidence" by The Times Literary Supplement, this lively survey starts with simple arithmetic and algebra and proceeds by gradual steps through graphs, logarithms, and trigonometry to calculus and the world of numbers. Generations of readers have found it the ideal introduction to...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 160 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN10: 0192853619; ISBN13: 978-0192853615. The aim of this book is to explain, carefully but not technically, the differences between advanced, research-level mathematics, and the sort of mathematics we learn at school. The most fundamental differences are philosophical, and readers of this book will...
М.: АСТ, 2017. — 630 с.: 116 ил. — ISBN: 978-5-17-085475-2. Галилео Галилей заметил, что Вселенная – это книга, написанная на языке математики. Макс Тегмарк полагает, что наш физический мир в некотором смысле и есть математика. Известный космолог, профессор Массачусетского технологического института приглашает читателей присоединиться к поискам фундаментальной природы...
М.: Альпина Паблишер, 2016. — 342 с.
Почему нельзя было раньше узнавать о числах, алгебре и геометрии в такой увлекательной форме? "Магия математики" — та книга, о которой вы мечтали в школе. Используя множество необычных примеров — игральные карты, шарики мороженого, измерение гор, — Артур Бенджамин рассказывает вам о красоте математических формул. Все, от чего раньше голова...
Basis Books, 2016. — 947 p. — ISBN: 978-0-465-07381-8. Forget everything you’ve been taught about math. InBurn Math Class, Jason Wilkes takes the traditional approach to how we learn math--with its unwelcoming textbooks, unexplained rules, and authoritarian assertions--and sets it on fire. Focusing on how mathematics is created rather than on mathematical facts, Wilkes teaches...
The University of Chicago Press, 1980. — 237 p. — ISBN: 0-226-65025-1 Mathematics and Humor Axioms, Levels, and Iteration Self—Reference and Paradox Humor, Grammar, and Philosophy A Catastrophe Theory Model Jokes and Humor Odds and the End
Basic Books, 1998. — 420 p. — ISBN: 978-0-475-05159-5 Between Stories and Statistics Between Subjectivity Viewpoint and Impersonal Probability Between Informal Discourse and Logic Between Meaning and Information Bridging the Gap
Harper Collins, 2016. — 331 p. — ISBN10: 0007576587. — ISBN13: 978-0007576586 Britain's most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know. Is the universe infinite? Do we know what happened before the Big Bang? Where is human consciousness located in the brain? And are there more undiscovered particles out there, beyond the Higgs boson?...
New York: Prometheus Books, 2015. - 200p.
Employing intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky "meta-memoir" raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask, but arguably should: What part of memory is reliable fact, what part creative embellishment? Which favorite presuppositions are unfounded, which statistically biased? By conjoining two opposing...
Big Kid Science, 2013. — 216 p. — ISBN10: 1937548368, ISBN13: 978-1937548360 How can we solve the national debt crisis? Should you or your child take on a student loan? Is it safe to talk on a cell phone while driving? Are there viable energy alternatives to fossil fuels? What could you do with a billion dollars? Could simple policy changes reduce political polarization? These...
Лекция в МГУ 24 июня 2008 г. Типография МГУ.
Один из величайших математиков современности, лишь недавно покинувший наш мир, рассказывает о творчестве в математике, о фундаментальных открытиях с такой ясностью и конкретностью, на которые способны творцы лишь такого уровня, как Арнольд. В его изложении открываются удивительные взаимосвязи совершенно, казалось бы, несвязанных...
Издательство: Манн, Иванов и Фербер. 2015. — 570 с. пер. с англ. ISBN: 978-5-00057-605-2 Читая эту книгу, вы не сразу сможете осознать, что изучаете и понимаете сложные идеи и концепции, которые прежде казались доступными только ученым и специалистам. Вы с удивлением обнаружите, насколько интересным и веселым может быть мир математики. Книга будет полезной для всех, кто любит...
N.-Y.: Fourth Estate, 2004. - 368p.
Prime numbers are the very atoms of arithmetic. They also embody one of the most tantalising enigmas in the pursuit of human knowledge. How can one predict when the next prime number will occur? Is there a formula which could generate primes? These apparently simple questions have confounded mathematicians ever since the Ancient Greeks.
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Paul Carson, 2015. — 806 p. For you, maths is a painful thing that you're forced to do but really hate. You want to get a good grade, but find that you can do okay in class, but struggle in the exam. To solve this problem, I've created 'Math-Hacker', a guide through the seeming wilderness of mysterious letters and strange word problems. My course has a 95% success rate, and my...
Avon: Adams Media, 2015. — 256 p. — ISBN: 9781440583827, 144058382X. The new "sine" of mathematical geekdom! Do you dream about long division in your sleep? Does the thought of solving abstruse equations bring a smile to your face? Do you love celebrating pi every March? Then, Math Geek was made for you! With this guide, you'll learn even more about the power of numbers as you...
THE PENGUIN PRESS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) LLC 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014 Copyright 2014 by Jordan Ellenberg ISBN: 978-0-698-16384-3 The Freakonomics of math — a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down...
N-Y.: W.W.Norton&Co, 2005. - 240p.
Safecracking, bullying, marital infidelity and gambling have never before been explored with the mathematical acuity and whimsy of Puzzling Adventures.
Collected and enhanced from Dennis Shasha's popular Scientific American column, here are thirty-five of the most innovative and emotive mathematical puzzles ever to appear in its pages. Edgy,...
М.: АСТ, 2015. — 218 с.: ил. — (Золотой фонд науки). — ISBN: 978-5-17-094497-2. Как только не называли это загадочное число, которое математики обозначают буквой φ: и золотым сечением, и числом Бога, и божественной пропорцией. Оно играет важнейшую роль и в геометрии живой природы, и в творениях человека, его закладывают в основу произведений живописи, скульптуры и архитектуры,...
М.: Эксмо, 2012. — 288 с. Знаменитый фантаст и популяризатор науки сэр Айзек Азимов в этой книге решил окунуть читателя в магию чисел. Свой увлекательный рассказ Азимов начинает с древнейших времен, когда человек использовал для вычислений пальцы, затем знакомит нас со счетами, а также с историей возникновения операций сложения, вычитания, умножения и деления. Шаг за шагом, от...
Joat Enterprises, 2015. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0465042724, 1781254109 At its heart, mathematics is about numbers, our fundamental tools for understanding the world. In Professor Stewart’s Incredible Numbers, Ian Stewart offers a delightful introduction to the numbers that surround us, from the common (Pi and 2) to the uncommon but no less consequential (1.059463 and...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 168 p. — ISBN: 0691157553
Calculus. For some of us, the word conjures up memories of ten-pound textbooks and visions of tedious abstract equations. And yet, in reality, calculus is fun, accessible, and surrounds us everywhere we go. In Everyday Calculus, Oscar Fernandez shows us how to see the math in our coffee, on the highway, and even in...
Quersus, 2013. — 416 pages. ISBN: 1623650089
Paul Glendinning is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester. He was founding Head of School for Mathematics at the combined University of Manchester and has published over fifty academic articles and an undergraduate textbook on chaos theory.
Both simple and accessible, Math in Minutes is a visually led...
Dover Publications, 2013. — 144 pages. ISBN: 0486489094
This innovative work by a British engineer initiates a Copernican revolution in our understanding of magic squares by replacing numbers with two-dimensional forms. The result is not merely a novel kind of geometrical magic square but a revelation that traditional magic squares are now better seen as the one-dimensional...
Profile Books, 2007. - 256 pages. ISBN: 1861978391
Numbers have become the all-powerful language of public argument. Too often, that power is abused and the numbers bamboozle. This book shows how to see straight through them - and how to seize the power for yourself. Public spending, health risks, environmental disasters, who is rich, who is poor, Aids or war deaths, pensions,...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. - 512 pages. ISBN: 1616080841 A fun, fascinating, and fact-filled (but not factor-filled) collection of trivia related to numbers 1 through 100. What does the number 67 mean to you? Do you associate it with a year? After all, 1967 was the year The Beatles released both Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour. It was also the...
Предлагаю в этом разделе добавить ссылку на /library/spare_time/tricks/ поскольку в том разделе есть материалы, связанные с математическими играми и головоломками.
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