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Author : Mark H. Wahl
Publisher : Zephyr Press (AZ)
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0913705276
Author : A. K. Dewdney
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : Wiley
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-12
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UVA:X004266505
A.K. Dewdney takes readers on a theoretical world tour to answer the question: Did humans make up mathematics, or did mathematics make up everything, including humans? After all, mathematical formulas seem to perfectly govern the cosmos, and the ur-mathematician Pythagoras himself believed that mathematics makes up reality. Dewdney has taken it upon himself to examine this fundamental question, beginning his journey in Miletus, the ancient home of Pythagoras and other deep thinkers. There, he meets the fictional Dr. Petros Pygonopolis, the first of his guides through space and time in search of mathematical meaning in history. His journey continues with stops in the Arabian desert (for insight into ancient Islamic astronomy with Professor al-Flayli), Venice (where Maria Canzoni reveals the mysteries of atomic theory), and England (home of the "engines of thought" in the form of Alan Turing's mind machines, as explained by Sir John Brainard). Dewdney's style is accessible, his knowledge is thorough, and his sense of humor is refreshing, if a bit geeky. A Mathematical Mystery Tour is not a difficult read, although the ideas it attempts to clarify are quite abstract. The fictional tour guides at each port of call are helpful in humanizing the intimidating subject matter.
Author : Mark Wahl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 1593633386
This classic motivator of math thinking is now updated with a downloadable student booklet containing additional Fibonacci and golden ratio activities related to the stock market, fractals, algebra, and more! The book also includes helpful Web sites related to the book's content. Let this geographically alive mystery tour integrate math into art, science, philosophy, history, social studies, and language arts. The use of the calculator, geometric construction, metric measurement, problem solving, formulating results, and making inferences is woven throughout the book. A Mathematical Mystery Tour has been used by thousands of students and has inspired adults to a greater appreciation of the secret number language of nature. It is multidisciplinary, visual, and hands-on, but requires deep math thinking. The activities are reproducible and are accompanied with teacher pages that give answers, notes, and activity extensions. Your purchase of this book entitles you to download the supplemental Mathematical Mystery Tour Student Newspaper for use in your classroom. Multiple copies of this supplemental student guide may printed for use with your students. Grades 5–12
Author : Dewdney
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0471150975
Author : Mark Wahl
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000943627
A Mathematical Mystery Tour has been used by thousands of students and has inspired adults to greater appreciation of the secret number language of nature. It is multidisciplinary, visual, and hands-on, practicing skills while also requiring deep math thinking. The activities are reproducible and each is accompanied with informational teacher pages giving answers, historical notes, teacher suggestions, and activity extensions. Let this geographically alive Mystery Tour integrate math with art, science, philosophy, history, social studies, and language arts. The use of the calculator, geometric construction, metric measurement, problem solving, formulating results, building models and making inferences is woven throughout the book. Each book purchase includes a link to a downloadable student newspaper, the Mathematical Mystery Tour Guide, coordinated with the book content. It is capable of being broken up into various assignments and handed out as print or sent whole electronically to each student. It is filled with games, riddles, dramatic historical information, crosswords, provocative questions, and additional math thought activities.
Author : H. Mark Wahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1862998469
Author : James Fulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1460993187
This book is the second volume is a series for a liberal arts mathematics class. It focuses on random, spatial, and numerical patterns.
Author : James Fulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503075249
This is a textbook for a liberals arts mathematics course. It covers material to give an appreciation for what mathematics is and how it is used. It provides a historical, philosophical, psychological, and conceptual approach to the subject. It covers the basics of number and number systems from the naturals to the complex, it also covers reasoning from propositional to symbolic, as well as fuzzy logic. The purpose is to provide a connected and purposeful overview of what mathematics is and how it has shaped civilization. We pose and consider many unanswered questions to motivate the material and the student.
Author : Ellen Arnold,Zephyr Press
Publisher : Zephyr Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1569761280
These delightfully illustrated readers and the accompanying teacher/parent guide (sold separately) use the revolutionary educational theory of multiple intelligences to address such issues as dealing with bullies, listening, and boredom, as well as common academic stumbling blocks such as multiplication, reading comprehension, and spelling. Young readers will travel down Intelligence Avenue guided by Brilliant Brain and Magnificent Mind, in search of tools to help them grasp these difficult social and learning skills. Along the way, they will encounter the Smart Parts: Music Smart, Picture Smart, Body Smart, Number Smart, Self-Smart, Nature Smart, World Smart, and People Smart--personifications of the eight known multiple intelligences--who provide nuggets of knowledge to help overcome the problem at hand. An original rhyme at the beginning of each story introduces children to the coming adventure; teacher/parent guide provides lesson plans in tandem with each book.
Author : Keith J. Devlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:39015064097879
Keith Devlin, renowned expositor of mathematics, tells here what the seven problems are, how they came about, and what they mean for math and science.".
Author : Nicholas Mee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192567796
The Cosmic Mystery Tour takes us on a lightning tour of the mysteries of the universe enlivened by brief stories of the colourful characters who created modern science. It explores hot topics in physics and astronomy, including the recent discovery of gravitational waves; the quest for the origin of dark matter; the study of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy; the ongoing search for Earth-like exoplanets; the search for signals from extraterrestrials; and the development of technologies to send spacecraft to the stars. The first part of the book explores the laws that govern the universe. Physics is a spiritual quest to find deep meaning in the cosmos. Its goal is to provide a concise, but accurate description of the world that accounts for all the amazing features that it contains. The second part takes a look at the history of the cosmos, studies its geography and explores some of its architectural highlights such as red giants, white dwarfs, neutron stars and the ultimate cosmic mysteries-supermassive black holes. The last part considers the possibility that life might exist elsewhere in the universe, and explores the cosmos from the outer fringes of science fiction to the ongoing search for alien civilizations.
Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614513186
This book explores the many disciplinary and theoretical links between language, linguistics, and mathematics. It examines trends in linguistics, such as structuralism, conceptual metaphor theory, and other relevant theories,to show that language and mathematics have a similar structure, but differential functions, even though one without the other would not exist.
Author : Martha A. Tucker,Nancy D. Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313053375
This book is a reference for librarians, mathematicians, and statisticians involved in college and research level mathematics and statistics in the 21st century. We are in a time of transition in scholarly communications in mathematics, practices which have changed little for a hundred years are giving way to new modes of accessing information. Where journals, books, indexes and catalogs were once the physical representation of a good mathematics library, shelves have given way to computers, and users are often accessing information from remote places. Part I is a historical survey of the past 15 years tracking this huge transition in scholarly communications in mathematics. Part II of the book is the bibliography of resources recommended to support the disciplines of mathematics and statistics. These are grouped by type of material. Publication dates range from the 1800's onwards. Hundreds of electronic resources-some online, both dynamic and static, some in fixed media, are listed among the paper resources. Amazingly a majority of listed electronic resources are free.
Author : Keith Devlin
Publisher : W. H. Freeman
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996-12-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0716760223
"The great book of nature," said Galileo, "can be read only by those who know the language in which it is written. And this language is mathematics." A richly illustrated celebration of the beauty and elegance of this ever-evolving language, Mathematics: The Science of Patterns explores the many ways mathematics helps us understand our perceptions of reality--both the physical, biological, and social worlds without, and the realm of ideas and thoughts within.
Author : Michele Emmer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540017704
A fascinating and insightful collection of papers on the strong links between mathematics and culture. The contributions range from cinema and theatre directors to musicians, architects, historians, physicians, graphic designers and writers. The text highlights the cultural and formative character of mathematics, its educational value, and imaginative dimension. These articles are highly interesting, sometimes amusing, and make excellent starting points for researching the strong connection between scientific and literary culture.
