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  • A Mind For Numbers

    How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

    kirjoittanut Barbara Oakley PhD ...
    The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"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 ... Lue lisää

    5,05 €

  • How Not to Be Wrong

    The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life

    kirjoittanut Jordan Ellenberg ...
    The maths we learn in school can seem like an abstract set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In fact, Jordan Ellenberg shows us, maths touches on everything we do, and a little mathematical knowledge reveals the hidden structures that lie beneath the world's messy and chaotic surface. In How Not to be Wrong, Ellenberg explores the mathematician's method of analyzing ... Lue lisää

    14,99 €

  • The Signal and the Noise

    The Art and Science of Prediction

    kirjoittanut Nate Silver ...
    The International Bestseller by 'The Galileo of number crunchers' (Independent)Every time we choose a route to work, decide whether to go on a second date, or set aside money for a rainy day, we are making a prediction about the future. Yet from the financial crisis to ecological disasters, we routinely fail to foresee hugely significant events, often at great cost to society. The rise of 'big ... Lue lisää

    14,99 €

  • Our Mathematical Universe

    My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

    kirjoittanut Max Tegmark ...
    Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present, and future, and through the physics, astronomy, and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp ... Lue lisää

    9,49 €

  • Infinite Powers

    How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

    kirjoittanut Steven Strogatz ...
    From preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing popular science explanation of calculus—how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better.Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket.Though many of us were ... Lue lisää

    11,23 €

  • Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

    kirjoittanut Matt Parker ...
    **'Maths at its most playful and multifarious' Jordan EllenbergMatt Parker, author of the No.1 bestseller Humble Pi, takes us on a riotous journey through the possibilities of numbers**Mathematician Matt Parker uses bizarre Klein Bottles, unimaginably small pizza slices, knots no one can untie and computers built from dominoes to reveal some of the most exotic and fascinating ideas in mathematics. ... Lue lisää

    11,99 €

  • Le grand roman des maths. De la préhistoire à nos jours

    kirjoittanut Mickaël Launay ...
    La plupart des gens aiment les maths. L'ennui, c'est qu'ils ne le savent pas. Dans les temps préhistoriques, les maths sont nées pour être utiles. Les nombres servaient à compter les moutons d’un troupeau. La géométrie permettait de mesurer les champs et de tracer des routes. L’histoire aurait pu en rester là, mais au fil des siècles, les Homo sapiens furent bien étonnés de découvrir les chemins ... Lue lisää

    6,99 €

  • Fermat’s Last Theorem

    kirjoittanut Simon Singh ...
    ‘I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.’It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat’s Last Theorem was the most notorious unsolved mathematical problem, a puzzle whose basics most children could grasp but whose solution ... Lue lisää

    12,36 €

  • Love Triangle

    The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry

    kirjoittanut Matt Parker ...
    Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble PiWhy can no two people ever see the same rainbow? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? Why does the wake behind a duck always form an angle of exactly 39 degrees? And what did mathematicians have to do with the ... Lue lisää

    10,99 €

  • Recent Advances in Industrial and Applied Mathematics

    Muokkaaja Tomás Chacón Rebollo, Rosa Donat, Inmaculada Higueras ...
    Sarja sarja Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book contains review papers authored by thirteen plenary invited speakers to the 9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Valencia, July 15-19, 2019). Written by top-level scientists recognized worldwide, the scientific contributions cover a wide range of cutting-edge topics of industrial and applied mathematics: mathematical modeling, industrial and ... Lue lisää

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  • Algorithms to Live By

    The Computer Science of Human Decisions

    kirjoittanut Brian Christian, Griffiths ...
    A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives.In this dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show us how the simple, precise algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. Modern life is constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set ... Lue lisää

    11,23 €

  • The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS

    Solving Crime with Mathematics

    kirjoittanut Keith Devlin, Gary Lorden ...
    The companion to the hit CBS crime series Numb3rs presents the fascinating way mathematics is used to fight real-life crimeUsing the popular CBS prime-time TV crime series Numb3rs as a springboard, Keith Devlin (known to millions of NPR listeners as the Math Guy on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon) and Gary Lorden (the principal math advisor to Numb3rs) explain real-life mathematical ... Lue lisää

    7,08 €

  • Shape

    The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything

    kirjoittanut Jordan Ellenberg ...
    The international bestseller - a whip-smart, entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world, from the author of How Not to Be WrongHow should a democracy choose its representatives? How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world? How do computers learn to play chess? Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market? (Sorry, no.) What should your kids learn in school ... Lue lisää

    11,99 €

  • Krakatoa

    The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

    kirjoittanut Simon Winchester ...
    The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic volcanic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth’s most dangerous volcano — Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa — the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic natural disaster — was ... Lue lisää

    8,11 €

  • Complex Adaptive Systems

    An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life

    kirjoittanut John H. Miller, Scott Page ...
    Sarja sarja Princeton Studies in Complexity
    This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive ... Lue lisää

    48,23 €

  • Advanced Engineering Mathematics with Mathematica

    kirjoittanut Edward B. Magrab ...
    Advanced Engineering Mathematics with Mathematica® presents advanced analytical solution methods that are used to solve boundary-value problems in engineering and integrates these methods with Mathematica® procedures. It emphasizes the Sturm–Liouville system and the generation and application of orthogonal functions, which are used by the separation of variables method to solve partial ... Lue lisää

    190,35 €

  • Programming for Computations - Python

    A Gentle Introduction to Numerical Simulations with Python 3.6

    kirjoittanut Svein Linge, Hans Petter Langtangen ...
    Sarja sarja Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book presents computer programming as a key method for solving mathematical problems. This second edition of the well-received book has been extensively revised: All code is now written in Python version 3.6 (no longer version 2.7). In addition, the two first chapters of the previous edition have been extended and split up into five ... Lue lisää

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  • Reduced-Order Modeling (ROM) for Simulation and Optimization

    Powerful Algorithms as Key Enablers for Scientific Computing

    Muokkaaja Winfried Keiper, Anja Milde, Stefan Volkwein ...
    This edited monograph collects research contributions and addresses the advancement of efficient numerical procedures in the area of model order reduction (MOR) for simulation, optimization and control. The topical scope includes, but is not limited to, new out-of-the-box algorithmic solutions for scientific computing, e.g. reduced basis methods for industrial problems and MOR approaches for ... Lue lisää

    96,46 €

  • The Mathematical Radio

    Inside the Magic of AM, FM, and Single-Sideband

    kirjoittanut Paul J. Nahin ...
    How a modern radio works, told through mathematics, history, and selected puzzlesThe modern radio is a wonder, and behind that magic is mathematics. In The Mathematical Radio, Paul Nahin explains how radios work, deploying mathematics and historical discussion, accompanied by a steady stream of intriguing puzzles for math buffs to ponder. Beginning with oscillators and circuits, then moving on to ... Lue lisää

    16,33 €

  • The Maths Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    kirjoittanut DK ...
    Sarja sarja DK Big Ideas
    Learn about the most important mathematical ideas, theorems, and movements in The Maths Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Maths in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Maths Book brings a fresh ... Lue lisää

    11,99 €

  • The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

    Learning to Learn

    kirjoittanut Richard W. Hamming ...
    A groundbreaking treatise by one of the great mathematicians of our age, who outlines a style of thinking by which great ideas are conceived.What inspires and spurs on a great idea? Can we train ourselves to think in a way that will enable world-changing understandings and insights to emerge?Richard Hamming said we can. He first inspired a generation of engineers, scientists, and researchers in ... Lue lisää

    9,99 € tai ilmainen Kobo Plus -tilauksella

  • Probability in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

    An Application-Driven Course

    kirjoittanut Jean Walrand ...
    Sarja sarja Computer Science (R0)
    This revised textbook motivates and illustrates the techniques of applied probability by applications in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). The author presents information processing and communication systems that use algorithms based on probabilistic models and techniques, including web searches, digital links, speech recognition, GPS, route planning, recommendation systems, ... Lue lisää

    Ilmainen

  • Why Do Buses Come in Threes?

    kirjoittanut Rob Eastaway ...
    With a foreword by Tim Rice, this book will change the way you see the world. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket on a Friday? Why are showers always too hot or too cold? And what's the connection between a rugby player taking a conversion and a tourist trying to get the best photograph of Nelson's Column?These and many other fascinating questions are answered in this entertaining and highly ... Lue lisää

    5,33 €

  • Guesstimation 2.0

    Solving Today's Problems on the Back of a Napkin

    kirjoittanut Lawrence Weinstein ...
    Guesstimation 2.0 reveals the simple and effective techniques needed to estimate virtually anything--quickly--and illustrates them using an eclectic array of problems. A stimulating follow-up to Guesstimation, this is the must-have book for anyone preparing for a job interview in technology or finance, where more and more leading businesses test applicants using estimation questions just like ... Lue lisää

    18,15 €