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Author
Series
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Language
English
Description
Based on a four-step process for solving word problems, this book helps you master the basic procedures and develop a plan of action that can be used to solve word problems found in all mathematics courses. End-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam help reinforce learning.
9) Math games with bad drawings: 74 1/2 simple, challenging, go-anywhere games -- and why they matter
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Best-selling author and worst-drawing artist Ben Orlin expands his oeuvre with this interactive collection of mathematical games. Each taking a minute to learn and a lifetime to master, this treasure chest of 70-plus games will delight, educate, and entertain"--
Author
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"El lado más atractivo de las matemáticas a través de diez problemas absolutamente fascinantes. Aunque no nos lo parezca, las matemáticas están en todas partes y al alcance de quien quiera encontrarlas. Recurrimos a ellas sin darnos cuenta cuando nos sacamos una selfie, cada vez que compramos un billete de avión e incluso al cocinar una tortilla. En ¡Un matemático ahí, por favor! el doctor Adrián Paenza nos invita a descubrir como nunca...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math--topology, analysis, and algebra--which turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This book upends the conventional approach to math, inviting you to think creatively about shape and dimension, the infinite and infinitesimal, symmetries, proofs, and how these concepts all fit together. What awaits readers is a freewheeling tour...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A mathematician and comedian offers games, puzzles, and hands-on activities to help those with a fear of math understand and enjoy the logical tools and abstract concepts of the subject normally only accessible at college-level study.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in everyday life. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the ways math trips us up"--
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Is there a secret formula for getting rich? For going viral? For deciding how long to stick with your current job, Netflix series, or even relationship? This book is all about the equations that make our world go round. Ten of them, in fact. They are integral to everything from investment banking to betting companies and social media giants. And they can help you to increase your chance of success, guard against financial loss, live more healthfully,...
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A hilarious reeducation in mathematics--full of joy, jokes, and stick figures--that sheds light on the countless practical and wonderful ways that math structures and shapes our world. In Math With Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals to us what math actually is; its myriad uses, its strange symbols, and the wild leaps of logic and faith that define the usually impenetrable work of the mathematician. Truth and knowledge come in multiple forms: colorful...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"We are all doing math all the time, from the way we communicate with each other to the way we travel, from how we work to how we relax. Many of us are aware of this. But few of us really appreciate the full power of math - the extent to which its influence is not only in every office and every home, but also in every courtroom and hospital ward. In this eye-opening and extraordinary book, Kit Yates explores the true stories of life-changing events...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Everyone has stared at the crumpled page of a math assignment and wondered, where on Earth will I ever use this? It turns out, Earth is precisely the place. As teen math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his teacher David Darling reveal, complex math surrounds us. If we think long enough about the universe, we're left not with material stuff, but a ghostly and beautiful set of equations. Packed with puzzles and paradoxes, mind-bending concepts, and surprising...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An engaging and imaginative tour through the fundamental mathematical concepts-from arithmetic to infinity-that form the building blocks of our universe. Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing-no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space-could we create a universe using only math? Irreverent, richly illustrated, and boundlessly creative,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On November 25th, 1915, Albert Einstein published his field equations of general relativity and reinvented gravity. Rather than being some mysterious unseen force pulling objects together, gravity, Einstein told the world, is a manifestation of the curvature of space-time caused by the presence of massive objects. But Einstein's theory wasn't born in a vacuum, not even the vacuum of space. Instead, the theory of general relativity relies upon complicated...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The author focuses on how mathematics is created rather than on mathematical facts and teaches the subject without requiring memorization or any mathematical knowledge beyond basic computation.
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