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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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

  • 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 €

  • Storytelling with Data

    A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

    kirjoittanut Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic ...
    Don't simply show your data—tell a story with it!Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for ... Lue lisää

    29,99 €

  • 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

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  • The Half-Life of Facts

    Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

    kirjoittanut Samuel Arbesman ...
    New insights from the science of scienceFacts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing.Samuel Arbesman shows us how knowledge in most fields evolves systematically and predictably, and how this ... Lue lisää

    9,11 €

  • 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 €

  • Measurement

    A Very Short Introduction

    kirjoittanut David J. Hand ...
    Sarja sarja Very Short Introductions
    Measurement is a fundamental concept that underpins almost every aspect of the modern world. It is central to the sciences, social sciences, medicine, and economics, but it affects everyday life. We measure everything - from the distance of far-off galaxies to the temperature of the air, levels of risk, political majorities, taxes, blood pressure, IQ, and weight. The history of measurement goes ... Lue lisää

    7,63 €

  • 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 €

  • Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

    Stripping the Dread from the Data

    kirjoittanut Charles Wheelan ...
    The best-selling author of Naked Economics defies the odds with a book about statistics that you’ll welcome and enjoy.Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called “sexy.” From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues ... Lue lisää

    13,95 €

  • Alex's Adventures in Numberland

    Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics

    kirjoittanut Alex Bellos ...
    A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of mathsSunday Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize'Original and highly entertaining' Sunday Times'A page turner about humanity's strange, never easy and, above all, never dull relationship with numbers' New Scientist'Will leave you hooked on n... ... Lue lisää

    14,63 €

  • Why Machines Learn

    The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI

    kirjoittanut Anil Ananthaswamy ...
    'An invaluable companion for anyone who wants a deep understanding of what’s under the hood of often inscrutable machines' Melanie MitchellA rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoing explosion of artificial intelligenceMachine-learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us: approving mortgage loans, determining whether a tumour ... Lue lisää

    17,99 €