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  • How Not to Be Wrong

    The Power of Mathematical Thinking

    **“Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . ." —Evelyn Lamb, Scientific AmericanThe Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands**The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • Numbers Tell Stories

    How Data Can Reveal the Surprising Truths about Our World from the Bestselling Author

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    From the internationally bestselling author, a revealing look at the surprising numbers that uncover the hidden forces shaping our world‘There is perhaps no other academic who paints pictures with numbers like Smil’ GuardianWhat do marriage, milk and the black market tell us about the state of humanity? Most people would say, not much at all. But the numbers reveal startling truths about who we ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • Their Arrows Will Darken the Sun

    The Evolution and Science of Ballistics

    by Mark Denny ...
    The science of ballistics has a long history and starts with one question: How does a projectile move through the air? Even before physicists worked that one out, military engineers had been tinkering with ballistic devices for centuries. The trebuchet of the Middle Ages has given way to rocket power, and the science of ballistics has evolved to match the technology. Mark Denny’s survey covers ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Minecraft Redstone: 70 Top Minecraft Redstone Ideas Your Friends Wish They Know

    by Jason Scotts ...
    Mastering redstone is one of the more difficult challenges a Minecraft player can take on. It's confusing, complicated and tedious enough to make even the most dedicated players start pulling their hair out. Minecraft Redstone : 70 Top Minecraft Redstone Ideas Your Friends Wish They Know will explain some simple concepts that can give players a head start to understanding how this unusual red ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

    Learning to Learn

    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

    Stripping the Dread from the Data

    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 ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • How Nature Works

    the science of self-organized criticality

    by Per Bak ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    and acknowledgments Self-organized criticality is a new way of viewing nature. The basic picture is one where nature is perpetually out of balance, but organized in a poised state-the critical state-where anything can happen within well-defined statistical laws. The aim of the science of self-organized criticality is to yield insight into the fundamental question of why nature is complex, not ... Read more

    $57.69 USD

  • Humble Pi

    When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World

    by Matt Parker ...
    **#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERAN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICKThe book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, “When am I ever going to use this in the real world?”“Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very readable guide to some of humanity's all-time greatest miscalculations—that also gives you permission to feel a little ... Read more

    $7.69 USD

  • Something Doesn’t Add Up

    Surviving Statistics in a Number-Mad World

    by Paul Goodwin ...
    Some people fear and mistrust numbers. Others want to use them for everything. After a long career as a statistician, Paul Goodwin has learned the hard way that the ones who want to use them for everything are a very good reason for the rest of us to fear and mistrust them. Something Doesn't Add Up is a fieldguide to the numbers that rule our world, even though they don't make sense.Wry, witty and ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Outnumbered

    From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles – The Algorithms That Control Our Lives

    by David Sumpter ...
    'Fascinating' - Financial TimesAlgorithms are running our society, and as the Cambridge Analytica story has revealed, we don't really know what they are up to.Our increasing reliance on technology and the internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • Storytelling with Data

    A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

    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 ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Models of the Mind

    How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain

    by Grace Lindsay ...
    The human brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses.For more than a century, a diverse array of researchers searched for a language that could be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate – and how those communications create thoughts, perceptions and actions. The language they were looking for was mathematics, and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • A Mind For Numbers

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

    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 ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • Mathematical Finance

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In recent years the finance industry has mushroomed to become an important part of modern economies, and many science and engineering graduates have joined the industry as quantitative analysts, with mathematical and computational skills that are needed to solve complex problems of asset valuation and risk management. An important parallel story exists of scientific endeavour. Between 1965-1995, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 從理財到科技,數學的超徹底日常應用!高利貸暴利、單雙眼皮遺傳、打彈珠遊戲、雞兔同籠問題……從日常理財到推理邏輯,帶你看數學在生活中搞出多少噱頭!

    QR Code的排列組合有用完的一天嗎?抽籤順序會影響結果嗎?先搶先贏還是公平競爭?小機率事件×二進制編碼×搜尋檢索模型……從經濟到博弈論,用「數學思維」開啟你的日常生活!▎顛覆你的認知,數學「好玩」在哪?  本書旨在向讀者展示數學在日常生活中的無處不在和趣味性。書籍以「數學好玩」的概念為起點,強調數學不僅是科學技術的基礎工具,更是融入我們生活每個角落的實用學問。透過這本書,作者希望打破傳統數學課本的枯燥乏味,讓讀者體驗到數學的智慧和靈感,並且從中獲得實際的應用技巧和知識。▎生活中談數學:高利貸、中獎機率、雞兔同籠、QR Code  書中內容分為五大章節,每一章節都涵蓋多種與我們生活息息相關的數學問題。第一章〈生活中美麗的數學〉探討了從儲蓄、房貸、交易陷阱到黃金分割等日常經濟活動中的數學應用。第二章〈上帝的骰子——排列組合與機率〉則深入機率統計,從中獎率、賭博問題到基因密碼 ... Read more

    $7.98 USD

  • Nonlinear Solid Mechanics for Finite Element Analysis: Statics

    Designing engineering components that make optimal use of materials requires consideration of the nonlinear static and dynamic characteristics associated with both manufacturing and working environments. The modeling of these characteristics can only be done through numerical formulation and simulation, which requires an understanding of both the theoretical background and associated computer ... Read more

    $78.79 USD

  • Numbers

    B2+

    Series series Collins Academic Skills
    Statistics and data for the non-specialist*The Collins Academic Skills Series – winner of the ELTon 2014 Innovation in Learner Resources Award.*At university you may be expected to analyse complex data and present your findings, whatever your area of study. Collins Academic Skills Series: Numbers gives you the skills you need to make sense of data and numbers and the confidence to use them ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Twists, Tilings, and Tessellations

    Mathematical Methods for Geometric Origami

    Series series AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
    Twists, Tilings, and Tessellation describes the underlying principles and mathematics of the broad and exciting field of abstract and mathematical origami, most notably the field of origami tessellations. It contains folding instructions, underlying principles, mathematical concepts, and many beautiful photos of the latest work in this fast-expanding field. ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Joy Of X

    A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

    “Delightful . . . easily digestible chapters include plenty of helpful examples and illustrations. You'll never forget the Pythagorean theorem again!”—Scientific AmericanMany people take math in high school and promptly forget much of it. But math plays a part in all of our lives all of the time, whether we know it or not. In The Joy of x, Steven Strogatz expands on his hit New York Times series ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • Wonders Beyond Numbers

    A Brief History of All Things Mathematical

    by Johnny Ball ...
    In this book, Johnny Ball tells one of the most important stories in world history – the story of mathematics.By introducing us to the major characters and leading us through many historical twists and turns, Johnny slowly unravels the tale of how humanity built up a knowledge and understanding of shapes, numbers and patterns from ancient times, a story that leads directly to the technological ... Read more

    $15.49 USD

  • Is That a Big Number?

    Impressive statistics are thrown at us every day - the cost of health care; the size of an earthquake; the distance to the nearest star; the number of giraffes in the world. We know all these numbers are important - some more than others - and it's vaguely unsettling when we don't really have a clear sense of how remarkable or how ordinary they are. How do we work out what these figures actually ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The book serves as a first introduction to computer programming of scientific applications, using the high-level Python language. The exposition is example and problem-oriented, where the applications are taken from mathematics, numerical calculus, statistics, physics, biology and finance. The book teaches "Matlab-style" and procedural programming as well as object-oriented programming. High ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • From Electrons to Elephants and Elections

    Exploring the Role of Content and Context

    Edited by Shyam Wuppuluri, Ian Stewart ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This highly interdisciplinary book, covering more than six fields, from philosophy and sciences all the way up to the humanities and with contributions from eminent authors, addresses the interplay between content and context, reductionism and holism and their meeting point: the notion of emergence. Much of today’s science is reductionist (bottom-up); in other words, behaviour on one level is ... Read more

    $115.39 USD

  • Explorations in Time-Frequency Analysis

    An authoritative exposition of the methods at the heart of modern non-stationary signal processing from a recognised leader in the field. Offering a global view that favours interpretations and historical perspectives, it explores the basic concepts of time-frequency analysis, and examines the most recent results and developments in the field in the context of existing, lesser-known approaches. ... Read more

    $69.69 USD