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The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
Mathematical superstar and inventor of fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot, has spent the past forty years studying the underlying mathematics of space and natural patterns. What many of his followers don't...
Do Plants Know Math?: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, from
A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over them. Charles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant spirals, growing so exasperated that he once begged...
Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces: Second Edition
One of the most widely used texts in its field, this volume introduces the differential geometry of curves and surfaces in both local and global aspects. The presentation departs from...
Lectures on Classical Differential Geometry: Second Edition
Elementary, yet authoritative and scholarly, this book offers an excellent brief introduction to the classical theory of differential geometry. It is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students who will...
Experiments in Topology
""A mathematician named KleinThought the Moebius band was divine.Said he: 'If you glueThe edges of two,You'll get a weird bottle like mine.' "" - Stephen BarrIn this lively book, the...
The Humongous Book of Geometry Problems
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Are you a befuddled math student who's struggling with geometry? The Humongous Book of Geometry Problems is like no other geometry workbook on the market and is the answer for...
Pythagoras and his Theorem
Rejacketed re-issue + b = c .Most of us have heard about Pythagoras through his theorem on right-angled triangles, having been taught that the square on the hypotenuse is equal...
Symmetry
We are all familiar with the everyday notion of two-sided symmetry, as viewed for example in the external form of the human body. But in its broadest interpretation symmetry is...
Central Simple Algebras and Galois Cohomology
The first comprehensive, modern introduction to the theory of central simple algebras over arbitrary fields, this book starts from the basics and reaches such advanced results as the Merkurjev-Suslin theorem,...
C -Algebraic Geometry with Corners
Schemes in algebraic geometry can have singular points, whereas differential geometers typically focus on manifolds which are nonsingular. However, there is a class of schemes, 'C -schemes', which allow differential...
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything
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The international bestseller - a whip-smart, entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world, from the author of How Not to Be Wrong How should a democracy choose its...
The Geometry of Efficient Fair Division
Author: Julius B. Barbanel (Union College, New York)Format: Hardback, 157mm x 235mm, 738g, 472 pagesPublished: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2005What is the best way to divide a 'cake' and...