Mathematics has always been humanity's best tool for understanding the world around us. From the farmers of ancient Egypt to the astrophysicists of today, we have used math to analyze and study our universe, and it has been incredibly successful. And yet, so few of us have ever been exposed to the beauty and wisdom that can be found in math. This work is an attempt to give the reader an insight into the beauty, the creativity, and the wisdom that can be found in a field that all of us have...

A revelatory foray into cognition and the dynamics of the mind.**“*****Surfaces and Essences *****warrants a place alongside Gödel, Escher, Bach and major recent treatments of human cognition. Analogy is not the endpoint of understanding, but its indispensable beginning.” –**ScienceAnalogy is the core of all thinking.This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer ...

Students and research workers in mathematics, physics, engineering and other sciences will find this compilation invaluable. All the information included is practical, rarely used results are excluded. Great care has been taken to present all results concisely and clearly. Excellent to keep as a handy reference! If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, this book helps you: Brush up before tests Find answers fast Learn key formulas and tables Study quickly and more effect...

This amazingly condensed guide covers integral & differential calculus. The guide includes: definitions & interpretations, integration formulas & techniques, improper integrals, geometry & physics, differential equations, Taylor's formula, numerical integration, sequences & series of real numbers, and convergence tests and power series.

An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling, Student Solutions Manual (e-only)

This 4-page laminated guide includes basic principles of calculus, including: functions, coordinate geometry, exponents & logarithms, permutations & combinations, synthetic division, matrices and more.

Students and research workers in mathematics, physics, engineering and other sciences will find this compilation invaluable. All the information included is practical, rarely used results are excluded. Great care has been taken to present all results concisely and clearly. Excellent to keep as a handy reference! If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, this book helps you: Brush up before tests Find answers fast Learn key formulas and tables Study quickly and more effect...

Wolfram discusses the history of computation from its earliest beginnings to current applications and the emergence of computable knowledge. Notable figures include: Pythagoras, Archimedes, Isaac Newton, Galileo, Gottfried Leibniz, Carl Linnaeus, John von Neumann, and many others.

A Concrete Approach to Abstract Algebra presents a solid and highly accessible introduction to abstract algebra by providing details on the building blocks of abstract algebra.It begins with a concrete and thorough examination of familiar objects such as integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, complex conjugation, and polynomials. The author then builds upon these familiar objects and uses them to introduce and motivate advanced concepts in algebra in a manner that is ea...

Mathematics often gets a bad press. Describing someone as 'calculating' or 'rational' is hardly as flattering as being labelled 'artistic' or 'creative' and mathematicians in movies or novels are often portrayed as social misfits who rarely get the guy or girl. No wonder some folks say 'oh I don't care for mathematics, I was never any good at it' with a wistful sense of pride.Yet professional mathematicians talk of the subject differently. They look for elegant sol...

"Designed for the studious and dabblers alike" this unique graphic novel offers "an accessible primer on one of the 20th century's weightiest thinkers" ( Publishers Weekly).Life can often feel like a rat race. To make sense of it all, generations of truth seekers have turned to the works of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Now a fellow seeker shares a charming and accessible introduction to Sartre's profound and complex ideas—told in cartoons.Ben Argon'...

According to Aristotle, the speed with which an objects falls is proportional to its weight, i.e., he said heavy objects fall faster than light ones. The Italian Renaissance philosopher Galileo Galilei is widely believed to have tested this claim when he was a professor in Pisa by dropping different weight balls from its Leaning Tower. However, many historians doubt this because there is no supporting historical evidence. These skeptics further object that though Galileo reported the resul...