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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
by Mario Livio  Publisher Comments Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1...
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The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics: Third Edition (Penguin Reference Books)
by David Nelson Synopsis From algebra to number theory, statistics to mechanics, this versatile and completely updated reference takes in all branches of pure and applied mathematics. Features include: More than 3,200 cross-referenced entries, supported by dozens of explanatory...
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Actuaries' Survival Guide: How to Succeed in One of the Most Desirable Professions
by Fred E. Szabo Publisher Comments This unique book is a guide for students and graduates of mathematics, statistics, economics, finance, and other number-based disciplines contemplating a career in actuarial science. Given the comprehensive range of the cases that are analyzed in the...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Statistics
by Robert A. Donnelly Publisher Comments This new edition is aimed at high school and college students who need to take statistics to fulfill a degree requirement and follows a standard statistics curriculum. Readers will find information on frequency distributions; mean, median, and mode...
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The Square Root of 2: A Dialogue Concerning a Number and a Sequence
by David Flannery Publisher Comments Often overshadowed by its more famous cousins (like pi and zero), the square root of 2 is nonetheless a very important number. While pi is the circumference of a unit circle, the square root of 2 is the diagonal of a unit square. What's more, the square...
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The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems, and Personalities
by William Dunham Publisher Comments If you want to encourage anyone's interest in math, get them The Mathematical Universe...it is enchanting to read. --New Scientist A fascinating collection of essays that touch every facet of the history of mathematics, this is sure to be one of the...
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Math Review for Standardized Tests (Cliffs Test Prep Math Review Standardized)
by Jerry Bobrow Publisher Comments The CliffsTestPrep series offers full-length practice exams that simulate the real tests; proven test-taking strategies to increase your chances at doing well; and thorough review exercises to help fill in any knowledge gaps. Math Review for Standardized...
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World of Math 1 2v Set
by Brigham (edt) Narins Synopsis World of Mathematics is a 2-vol. guide to topics in mathematics. It includes theories, definitions, discoveries, concepts in the history of mathematical science. The volumes also include biographical entries on the most influential mathematicians from...
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Current and Future Directions in Applied Mathematics
by Mark Alber Publisher Comments In an era of very tight funding for research in pure mathematics, it is increasingly important for mathematicians to address the que what applications their work has in the real world of science and engineering. Based on a conference held in April of...
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Collins Dictionary of Mathematics
by E Borowski Publisher Comments A new and revised edition, in a new livery of the most comprehensive single-volume dictionary available on mathematics. With over 9000 definitions and 400 diagrams, this is the one dictionary of mathematics any student of the subject will ever need....
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Numbers, Information and Complexity
by Ning Cai Synopsis Numbers, Information and Complexity is a collection of about 50 articles in honour of Rudolf Ahlswede. His main areas of research are represented in the three sections, Numbers and Combinations', Information Theory (Channels and Networks, Combinatorial...
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Information Theory
by Stanford Goldman Publisher Comments Students of electrical engineering or applied mathematics can find no clearer presentation of the principles of information theory than this excellent introduction. After explaining the nature of information theory and its problems, the author examines a...
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Know It All! Grades 6-8 Math
by Princeton Review Synopsis We Get Results We know what it takes to succeed in the classroom and on tests. This book includes strategies that are proven to improve student performance. We provide - content review, detailed lessons, and practice exercises modeled on the skills...
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Anyone Can Learn Math: Helping High Risk Learners
by Aileen Midori Yamate Ed D. Synopsis To the Teacher: What this book does is give you a systematic way to organize a mathematics curriculum. This is mathematics across the broad spectrum of curriculum, i.e. the skills and knowledge that students learn from this program can be applied and...
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The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes
by David J. Darling Synopsis If you are fascinated by the weird, odd, curious or just plain puzzling than chances are likely you're drawn to mathematics. This A to Z resource provides endless exploration into the world of numbers and everything to be done with them, from puzzles and...
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Beliefs and Mathematics: Festschrift in Honor of Guenter Toerner's 60th Birthday (PB)
by Bharath (edt) Sriraman Publisher Comments Beliefs and Mathematics is a Festschrift honoring the contributions of Gnter Trner to mathematics education and mathematics. Mathematics Education as a legitimate area of research emerged from the initiatives of well known mathematicians of the last...
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Introduction to the Theories of Measurement and Meaningfulness and the Use of Symmetry in Science
by Louis Narens Publisher Comments This book is designed to be an introduction to the theories of measurement and meaningfulness, and not a comprehensive study of those topics. A major theme of this book is the psychophysical measurement of subjective intensity. This has been a subject of...
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Five Golden Rules: Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics— And Why They Matter
by John L. Casti Publisher Comments Praise for Five Golden Rules Casti is one of the great science writers of the 1990s. . . . If you'd like to have fun while giving your brain a first-class workout, then check this book out.-Keay Davidson in the San Francisco Examiner. Five Golden Rules...
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Philosophical Papers #01: Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Mathematics, Matter and Method
by Hilary Putman Publisher Comments Professor Hilary Putnam has been one of the most influential and sharply original of recent American philosophers in a whole range of fields. His most important published work is collected here, together with several new and substantial studies, in two...
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Sturm Liouville Theory Past & Present
by Werner O Amrein Publisher Comments This collection of articles on Sturm-Liouville theory is based on lectures presented at the colloquium and workshop held in Geneva on the occasion of Sturm's 200th anniversary. A historical survey of the field is combined with in-depth coverage of later...
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