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A fun, timely, and optimistic treatment of the big ideas that every citizen of the 21st century should know if they want to understand how intelligent machines operating on massive...

Introduces precalculus concepts using computer and calculator-based graphing.

How can actuaries best equip themselves for the products and risk structures of the future? Using the powerful framework of multiple state models, three leaders in actuarial science give a...

With memorable examples like miniature golf games and karate tournaments, The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra transforms abstract mathematical concepts into something concrete, understandable, and even fun. Reiji wants two...

This accessible work aims to inspire the general reader with the wonder and beauty of mathematics - our first native language. To savour mathematics is to feel the same exhilaration...

This text offers a treatment of probability focused on problem solving. Each topic moves from the specific to the general, beginning with one or more examples to lead into the...

Geared toward readers unfamiliar with complex numbers, this text explains how to solve the kinds of problems that frequently arise in the applied sciences, especially electrical studies. To assure an...

Specifically designed as an integrated survey of the development of analytic geometry, this classic study takes a unique approach to the history of ideas. The author, a distinguished historian of...

The first complete, in-depth study of the origins of division in extreme and mean ratio (DEMR)-""the Golden Number""-this text charts every aspect of this important mathematical concept's historic development, from...

""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...

A straightforward guide to logic concepts Logic concepts are more mainstream than you may realize. There's logic every place you look and in almost everything you do, from deciding which...

If your child isn't doing so well at maths, there's not much you can do - they just have no talent for it, right? Wrong! Most of us have been...

At the age of 16, the author became the Irish Young Scientist of the Year with a highly innovative, speedy and secure system of encoding data on the Internet. An...

Learn to solve statistics problems-and make them no problem! Most math and science study guides are dry and difficult, but this is the exception. Following the successful The Humongous Books...

This authoritative biography of Kurt Goedel relates the life of this most important logician of our time to the development of the field. Goedel's seminal achievements that changed the perception...

This story of a highly intelligent observer of the turbulent 20th century who was intimately involved as the secretary and bodyguard to Leon Trotsky is based on extensive interviews with...

PEN/WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD FINALIST 2023 ' A beautifully written meditation on mathematics: whimsical, thought-provoking and deep ' ALEX BELLOS, author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland 'Infinitely fascinating' THE...

Discusses the unique characteristics of the first ten numbers, as well as Euler's number and aleph zero.

"In Ian Stewart we at last have a worthy successor to that dean of recreational mathematics, Martin Gardner...Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into "...contains a fascinating selection of characters,...

Mathematicians solve equations, or try to. But sometimes the solutions are not as interesting as the beautiful symmetric patterns that lead to them. Written in a friendly style for a...

Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and enigma. In An...

Examines the role of infinity in mathematics and geometry and its cultural impact on the arts and sciences. This book evokes the profound intellectual impact the infinite has exercised on...

For over half a century, at almost any hour of the day, mathematicians the world over might answer a knock at the front door to find a short, frail man...

From one of the greatest minds in contemporary mathematics, Professor E.T. Bell, comes a witty, accessible, and fascinating look at the beautiful craft and enthralling history of mathematics. Men of...

A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC covers the standard subjects for any logic course in neatly packaged capsules of teaching. Users report that this text is more clearly written than any...

These provocative essays take a modern look at the 17th-century thinker's dream, examining the influences of mathematics on society, particularly in light of technological advances. They survey the conditions that...

Designed as a method for teaching correct mathematical thinking to high school students, this book contains a brilliantly constructed series of what the authors call ""lapses,"" erroneous statements that are...

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...

Elementary account of ciphers, history, types, etc., with 151 examples of ciphers and codes. Solutions. Good introduction for beginners. Readers interested in secret writing will find this book an excellent...

Enter the magical maze of mathematics and explore the surprising passageways of a fantastical world where logic and imagination converge. For mathematics is a maze--a maze in your head--a maze...

The companion volume to Fadiman's Fantasia Mathematica, this second anthology of mathematical writings is even more varied and contains stories, cartoons, essays, rhymes, music, anecdotes, aphorisms, and other oddments. Authors...

Now in new trade paper editions, these classic biographies of two of the greatest 20th Century mathematicians are being released under the Copernicus imprint. These noteworthy accounts of the lives...

In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Realising the letter...

This book tackles the important questions which have engaged mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers for thousands of years and which are still being asked today. It does so with clarity and...

When do the hands of a clock coincide? How likely is it that two children in the same class will share a birthday? Should you play Roulette or the Lottery?...

This book is written for anyone who needs or wants to know how statistics work. It assumes no expert knowledge, and teaches through words and diagrams rather than through figures,...

A light and cheeky guide to the dark arts of statistics -- and a stone cold classic of popular mathematics In 1954, Darrell Huff decided enough was enough. Fed up...

The books in this series provide a concise, practical introduction to the core components of an undergraduate computer science degree. Acknowledging recent changes within Higher Education, this approach uses a...

The Prentice Hall "Essence of Computing" series provides a concise, practical and uniform introduction to the core components of an undergraduate computer science degree. Acknowledging recent changes within Higher Education,...

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and...

All you need to get the answer right first time. -Have you been asked to sit a numerical or logical reasoning test? -Do you need some help preparing for the...

This is an unsolved mystery, a reclusive Russian genius and a race to win a million dollars ...For over a century, the Poincare Conjecture was one of the world's most...

'Here is the story of algebra.' With this deceptively simple introduction, Unknown Quantity opens, thirty-eight centuries ago, at the time of Abraham and Isaac. In stylish and accessible prose, Derbyshire...

Mathematician Chaitin discovered the Omega number in his quest for representation of the unknowable in mathematics, as sought by Godel and Turing before him. His explication here is enthusiastic (lots...

In 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a shy German mathematician, gave an answer to a problem that had long puzzled mathematicians. Although he couldn't provide a proof, Riemann declared that his solution...