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Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting' Oliver Burkeman 'A remarkable book about a remarkable theorem' Will Storr 'Witty, lively and best of...
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century
In the early seventeenth century, the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll was consigned to the realm of unknowable chance. Mathematicians largely agreed that it was impossible...
Plane And Geodetic Surveying: Volume One Plane Surveying Metric Edition (Si Units)
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Edition: later ed, later repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Hinges - cracked.A foundational technical reference in the field of civil engineering and land...
Transmission Lines And Networks
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA foundational text in electrical engineering, Transmission Lines and Networks presents a rigorous and systematic treatment of the theory and analysis of...
A Brief History Of Time: From The Big Bang To Black Holes
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerA landmark work of popular science, A Brief History of Time presents the most profound mysteries of the...
Laurie's Decimal Tables Of Simple Interest: At 5, 4½, 4, 3½, 3, 2½, 2, 1½ Per Cent, Per Annum Calculated Per Day, Per Month And Per Year
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. A specialized financial reference work, Laurie's Decimal Tables Of Simple Interest:...
Data Book For Civil Engineers: Field Practice
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA foundational reference in civil engineering practice, Data Book for Civil Engineers: Field Practice by Elwyn E. Seelye presents a comprehensive compendium...
Toward A Mathematics Of Politics
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work in public choice theory and political economy, Toward a...
The Cosmic Frontiers Of General Relativity
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work in popular science, The Cosmic Frontiers of General Relativity presents Einstein's...
Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About
Best Books of 2024, The Economist From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers - what the secret world can teach us about performance and...
Practical Science And Mathematics: Preliminary Technical Or Industrial Course
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA foundational educational text designed for students entering technical or industrial fields, this volume presents a rigorous yet accessible introduction to the...
The Elements Of Astronomy For Surveyors
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Condition remarks:Book: Poor Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA precise and authoritative technical manual, The Elements of Astronomy for Surveyors presents the fundamental principles of astronomy as they apply directly...
How To Take A Chance
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Mylar sleeve on jacket.A witty and accessible guide to probability and statistics, How to Take a...
Chambers's Seven-Figure Logarithms: Of Numbers Up To 100000
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA foundational reference work in the tradition of Victorian mathematical scholarship, Chambers's Seven-Figure Logarithms: Of Numbers Up To 100000 presents an exhaustive...
Tables Of The Individual And Cumulative Terms Of Poisson Distribution
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Good Markings: No markingsA specialized statistical reference work, Tables of the Individual and Cumulative Terms of Poisson Distribution...
Short Cuts: Maths: Navigate Your Way Through the Big Ideas
Your expert guide to mastering the numbers behind the mysteries of modern mathematics. What with the mysteries of infinity and imaginary numbers, the power of mathematical modelling, and the logic...
A Mathematician Plays the Market
Can a renowned mathematician successfully outwit the stock market? Not when his biggest investment is WorldCom. This text tells the story of how John Allen Paulos gambled - and lost...
Norie's Nautical Tables: With Explanations Of Their Use
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA cornerstone of maritime navigation, Norie's Nautical Tables is an essential technical reference that has guided sailors, navigators, and maritime professionals for...
Elements Of Pre-Calculus Mathematics
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Names penned on fep; internally sound; clean text. A foundational mathematics...
Mathematics In Theory And Practice: A Novel And Simplified Approach In Which Mathematical Processes Are Related To Everyday Affairs
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerA landmark work in mathematical education, Mathematics in Theory and Practice:...
Luminous
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark collection of hard science fiction short stories, Luminous presents nine mind-bending tales from one of the...
The Concise Planetary Ephemeris For 1950 To 2000 A.D. At Noon
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA foundational reference work in the field of astrology and astronomical calculation, The Concise...
Makers of Mathematics
A history of the discoveries of the major figures in mathematics from the Ancients to Einstein. It includes separate chapters on the work of mathematicians such as Descartes, Fermat, Pascal,...
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014
This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing...
Vedic Mathematics Made Easy
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-Can you multiply 231072 by 110649 and get the answer in just a single line? -Can you find the cube root of 262144 or 704969 in two seconds? All this...
Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity
*A Financial Times and Waterstones Book of the Year 2025* Many artists are unaware of the mathematics that bubble beneath their craft, while some consciously use it for inspiration. Our...
The Evolution of the Galaxies
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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, on wear on spine of binding, tannnig on pagesHow did the...
Weird Maths: At the Edge of Infinity and Beyond
Is anything truly random? Does infinity actually exist? Could we ever see into other dimensions? In this delightful journey of discovery, David Darling and extraordinary child prodigy Agnijo Banerjee draw...
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics,...
The Times Killer Su Doku Book 16: 200 lethal Su Doku puzzles (The
Test your powers of logic with these challenging Su Doku puzzles. The latest volume in the hugely popular Killer Su Doku series from The Times, featuring the highest-quality puzzles with...
Numbers: 10 Things You Should Know
Uncover the language of our universe - numbers - in this wide-ranging whistle-stop tour of the history and majesty of mathematics. Our world simply wouldn't function if we didn't have...
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
How can statistics help us understand the world? Can we come to reliable conclusions when data is imperfect? How is statistics changing in the age of data science? Statistics has...
It All Adds Up: The Story of People and Mathematics
'Fascinating ... so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn't seem so fearsome as it once did' SIMON WINCHESTER From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that...
Is Maths Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023A NEW SCIENTIST BEST BOOK OF 2023WINNER OF THE LA TIMES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023 BOOK PRIZE'A generous tour of mathematics for anyone whose instincts...
What Is Mathematics Really?
This book tackles important questions which have engaged mathemat-icians and philosophers for thousands of years and are still being asked today. The main purpose of the book is to ask-...
Vedic Mathematics
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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. DJ with some shelfwear. A few leaves repaired with tapes, otherwise clean and...
Much Ado About Numbers
In this fascinating new take on the world of Shakespeare, find out how Tudors multiplied, why Shakespeare never ended a line with the word Orange, why King Lear was every...
Quantum Leaps: How Maths Drives Scientific Progress
From the author of Million Dollar Maths comes a fascinating and engaging look at the mathematics that lies behind our modern world. How does Google know what you want to...
Quantum Leaps: How Maths Drives Scientific Progress
From the author of Million Dollar Maths comes a fascinating and engaging look at the mathematics that lies behind our modern world. How does Google know what you want to...
Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the formation of the Earth and its Moon to the planets and asteroids of the solar system and from there out...
A New Kind Of Science
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis groundbreaking scientific treatise, A New Kind Of Science, presents a radical re-evaluation of how complex systems arise from fundamental...
The History Of The Abacus
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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some marks on boards. Some foxing on...
A Complete Slide Rule Manual
$85.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsA Complete Slide Rule Manual by Neville W. Young presents a comprehensive guide to mastering the slide rule, an...
Mathematics For All: A Popular Approach To Mathematics In Everyday Life
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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerMathematics For All: A Popular Approach To Mathematics In Everyday Life presents an...
The Mending of Broken Bones: A Modern Guide to Classical Algebra
A joyful and intimate celebration of the beauty and creativity of algebra from one of the foremost math educators of our time. For many of us, algebra conjures up memories...
Measurement
For seven years, Paul Lockhart's A Mathematician's Lament enjoyed a samizdat-style popularity in the mathematics underground, before demand prompted its 2009 publication to even wider applause and debate. An impassioned...
A Guide to Infinity: Ten Mathematical Journeys
An accessible introduction to infinity explaining the different ways that mathematicians use it in their daily work Infinity has traditionally been a topic for philosophers, physicists, and artists, and it...
A Little History of Mathematics
A lively, accessible history of mathematics throughout the ages and across the globe Mathematics is fundamental to our daily lives. Science, computing, economics-all aspects of modern life rely on some...