The Mathematical Intelligencer

Author : Robin Wilson,Jeremy Gray
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0387986863

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Mathematical Conversations by Robin Wilson,Jeremy Gray Pdf

Approximately fifty articles that were published in The Mathematical Intelligencer during its first eighteen years. The selection demonstrates the wide variety of attractive articles that have appeared over the years, ranging from general interest articles of a historical nature to lucid expositions of important current discoveries. Each article is introduced by the editors. "...The Mathematical Intelligencer publishes stylish, well-illustrated articles, rich in ideas and usually short on proofs. ...Many, but not all articles fall within the reach of the advanced undergraduate mathematics major. ... This book makes a nice addition to any undergraduate mathematics collection that does not already sport back issues of The Mathematical Intelligencer." D.V. Feldman, University of New Hamphire, CHOICE Reviews, June 2001.

Author : Robin Wilson,Jeremy Gray
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781461301950

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Mathematical Conversations by Robin Wilson,Jeremy Gray Pdf

Approximately fifty articles that were published in The Mathematical Intelligencer during its first eighteen years. The selection demonstrates the wide variety of attractive articles that have appeared over the years, ranging from general interest articles of a historical nature to lucid expositions of important current discoveries. Each article is introduced by the editors. "...The Mathematical Intelligencer publishes stylish, well-illustrated articles, rich in ideas and usually short on proofs. ...Many, but not all articles fall within the reach of the advanced undergraduate mathematics major. ... This book makes a nice addition to any undergraduate mathematics collection that does not already sport back issues of The Mathematical Intelligencer." D.V. Feldman, University of New Hamphire, CHOICE Reviews, June 2001.

Author : Eleanor Robson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780691201405

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Mathematics in Ancient Iraq by Eleanor Robson Pdf

This monumental book traces the origins and development of mathematics in the ancient Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the fourth millennium BCE to the end of indigenous intellectual culture in the second century BCE when cuneiform writing was gradually abandoned. Eleanor Robson offers a history like no other, examining ancient mathematics within its broader social, political, economic, and religious contexts, and showing that mathematics was not just an abstract discipline for elites but a key component in ordering society and understanding the world. The region of modern-day Iraq is uniquely rich in evidence for ancient mathematics because its prehistoric inhabitants wrote on clay tablets, many hundreds of thousands of which have been archaeologically excavated, deciphered, and translated. Drawing from these and a wealth of other textual and archaeological evidence, Robson gives an extraordinarily detailed picture of how mathematical ideas and practices were conceived, used, and taught during this period. She challenges the prevailing view that they were merely the simplistic precursors of classical Greek mathematics, and explains how the prevailing view came to be. Robson reveals the true sophistication and beauty of ancient Middle Eastern mathematics as it evolved over three thousand years, from the earliest beginnings of recorded accounting to complex mathematical astronomy. Every chapter provides detailed information on sources, and the book includes an appendix on all mathematical cuneiform tablets published before 2007.

Author : Paul Lockhart
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780674237513

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Arithmetic by Paul Lockhart Pdf

Paul Lockhart reveals arithmetic not as the rote manipulation of numbers but as a set of ideas that exhibit the surprising behaviors usually reserved for higher branches of mathematics. In this entertaining survey, he explores the nature of counting and different number systems—Western and non-Western—and weighs the pluses and minuses of each.

Author : Senior Lecturer Faculty of Mathematics Robin Wilson,Jeremy Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1461301963

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Mathematical Conversations by Senior Lecturer Faculty of Mathematics Robin Wilson,Jeremy Gray Pdf

Approximately fifty articles that were published in The Mathematical Intelligencer during its first eighteen years. The selection demonstrates the wide variety of attractive articles that have appeared over the years, ranging from general interest articles of a historical nature to lucid expositions of important current discoveries. Each article is introduced by the editors. ..".The Mathematical Intelligencer publishes stylish, well-illustrated articles, rich in ideas and usually short on proofs. ...Many, but not all articles fall within the reach of the advanced undergraduate mathematics major. ... This book makes a nice addition to any undergraduate mathematics collection that does not already sport back issues of The Mathematical Intelligencer." D.V. Feldman, University of New Hamphire, CHOICE Reviews, June 2001.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UCSD:31822005491915

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The Mathematical Intelligencer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dave Benson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780521853873

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Music: A Mathematical Offering by Dave Benson Pdf

This book explores the interaction between music and mathematics including harmony, symmetry, digital music and perception of sound.

Author : Burkard Polster,Marty Ross
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781470435219

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A Dingo Ate My Math Book: Mathematics from Down Under by Burkard Polster,Marty Ross Pdf

A Dingo Ate My Math Book presents ingenious, unusual, and beautiful nuggets of mathematics with a distinctly Australian flavor. It focuses, for example, on Australians' love of sports and gambling, and on Melbourne's iconic, mathematically inspired architecture. Written in a playful and humorous style, the book offers mathematical entertainment as well as a glimpse of Australian culture for the mathematically curious of all ages. This collection of engaging stories was extracted from the Maths Masters column that ran from 2007 to 2014 in Australia's Age newspaper. The maths masters in question are Burkard Polster and Marty Ross, two (immigrant) Aussie mathematicians, who each week would write about math in the news, providing a new look at old favorites, mathematical history, quirks of school mathematics—whatever took their fancy. All articles were written for a very general audience, with the intention of being as inviting as possible and assuming a minimum of mathematical background.

Author : Anna Kepes Szemerédi
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781470419561

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Art in the Life of Mathematicians by Anna Kepes Szemerédi Pdf

Why are mathematicians drawn to art? How do they perceive it? What motivates them to pursue excellence in music or painting? Do they view their art as a conveyance for their mathematics or an escape from it? What are the similarities between mathematical talent and creativity and their artistic equivalents? What are the differences? Can a theatrical play or a visual image capture the beauty and excitement of mathematics? Some of the world's top mathematicians are also accomplished artists: musicians, photographers, painters, dancers, writers, filmmakers. In this volume, they share some of their work and reflect on the roles that mathematics and art have played in their lives. They write about creativity, communication, making connections, negotiating successes and failures, and navigating the vastly different professional worlds of art and mathematics.

Author : Philip Davis,Reuben Hersh,Elena Anne Marchisotto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780817682958

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The Mathematical Experience, Study Edition by Philip Davis,Reuben Hersh,Elena Anne Marchisotto Pdf

Winner of the 1983 National Book Award! "...a perfectly marvelous book about the Queen of Sciences, from which one will get a real feeling for what mathematicians do and who they are. The exposition is clear and full of wit and humor..." - The New Yorker (1983 National Book Award edition) Mathematics has been a human activity for thousands of years. Yet only a few people from the vast population of users are professional mathematicians, who create, teach, foster, and apply it in a variety of situations. The authors of this book believe that it should be possible for these professional mathematicians to explain to non-professionals what they do, what they say they are doing, and why the world should support them at it. They also believe that mathematics should be taught to non-mathematics majors in such a way as to instill an appreciation of the power and beauty of mathematics. Many people from around the world have told the authors that they have done precisely that with the first edition and they have encouraged publication of this revised edition complete with exercises for helping students to demonstrate their understanding. This edition of the book should find a new generation of general readers and students who would like to know what mathematics is all about. It will prove invaluable as a course text for a general mathematics appreciation course, one in which the student can combine an appreciation for the esthetics with some satisfying and revealing applications. The text is ideal for 1) a GE course for Liberal Arts students 2) a Capstone course for perspective teachers 3) a writing course for mathematics teachers. A wealth of customizable online course materials for the book can be obtained from Elena Anne Marchisotto ([email protected]) upon request.

Author : Robin Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780192514066

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Euler's Pioneering Equation by Robin Wilson Pdf

In 1988 The Mathematical Intelligencer, a quarterly mathematics journal, carried out a poll to find the most beautiful theorem in mathematics. Twenty-four theorems were listed and readers were invited to award each a 'score for beauty'. While there were many worthy competitors, the winner was 'Euler's equation'. In 2004 Physics World carried out a similar poll of 'greatest equations', and found that among physicists Euler's mathematical result came second only to Maxwell's equations. The Stanford mathematician Keith Devlin reflected the feelings of many in describing it as "like a Shakespearian sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting which brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's equation reaches down into the very depths of existence". What is it that makes Euler's identity, eiπ + 1 = 0, so special? In Euler's Pioneering Equation Robin Wilson shows how this simple, elegant, and profound formula links together perhaps the five most important numbers in mathematics, each associated with a story in themselves: the number 1, the basis of our counting system; the concept of zero, which was a major development in mathematics, and opened up the idea of negative numbers; π an irrational number, the basis for the measurement of circles; the exponential e, associated with exponential growth and logarithms; and the imaginary number i, the square root of -1, the basis of complex numbers. Following a chapter on each of the elements, Robin Wilson discusses how the startling relationship between them was established, including the several near misses to the discovery of the formula.

Author : Leonard M. Wapner
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781439864845

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The Pea and the Sun by Leonard M. Wapner Pdf

Take an apple and cut it into five pieces. Would you believe that these five pieces can be reassembled in such a fashion so as to create two apples equal in shape and size to the original? Would you believe that you could make something as large as the sun by breaking a pea into a finite number of pieces and putting it back together again? Neither did Leonard Wapner, author of The Pea and the Sun, when he was first introduced to the Banach-Tarski paradox, which asserts exactly such a notion. Written in an engaging style, The Pea and the Sun catalogues the people, events, and mathematics that contributed to the discovery of Banach and Tarski's magical paradox. Wapner makes one of the most interesting problems of advanced mathematics accessible to the non-mathematician.

Author : Steven George Krantz
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0821872591

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Mathematical Publishing by Steven George Krantz Pdf

Mathematicians are expected to publish their work: in journals, conference proceedings, and books. It is vital to advancing their careers. Later, some are asked to become editors. However, most mathematicians are trained to do mathematics, not to publish it. But here, finally, for graduate students and researchers interested in publishing their work, Steven G. Krantz, the respected author of several "how-to" guides in mathematics, shares his experience as an author, editor, editorial board member, and independent publisher. This new volume is an informative, comprehensive guidebook to publishing mathematics. Krantz describes both the general setting of mathematical publishing and the specifics about all the various publishing situations mathematicians may encounter. As with his other books, Krantz's style is engaging and frank. He gives advice on how to get your book published, how to get organized as an editor, what to do when things go wrong, and much more. He describes the people, the language (including a glossary), and the process of publishing both books and journals. Steven G. Krantz is an accomplished mathematician and an award-winning author. He has published more than 130 research articles and 45 books. He has worked as an editor of several book series, research journals, and for the Notices of the AMS. He is also the founder of the Journal of Geometric Analysis. Other titles available from the AMS by Steven G. Krantz are How to Teach Mathematics, A Primer of Mathematical Writing, A Mathematician's Survival Guide, and Techniques of Problem Solving.

Author : J.L. Berggren,Jonathan Borwein,Peter Borwein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781475742176

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Pi: A Source Book by J.L. Berggren,Jonathan Borwein,Peter Borwein Pdf

This book documents the history of pi from the dawn of mathematical time to the present. One of the beauties of the literature on pi is that it allows for the inclusion of very modern, yet accessible, mathematics. The articles on pi collected herein fall into various classes. First and foremost there is a selection from the mathematical and computational literature of four millennia. There is also a variety of historical studies on the cultural significance of the number. Additionally, there is a selection of pieces that are anecdotal, fanciful, or simply amusing. For this new edition, the authors have updated the original material while adding new material of historical and cultural interest. There is a substantial exposition of the recent history of the computation of digits of pi, a discussion of the normality of the distribution of the digits, and new translations of works by Viete and Huygen.

Author : Kristine K. Fowler
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781482276442

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Using the Mathematics Literature by Kristine K. Fowler Pdf

This reference serves as a reader-friendly guide to every basic tool and skill required in the mathematical library and helps mathematicians find resources in any format in the mathematics literature. It lists a wide range of standard texts, journals, review articles, newsgroups, and Internet and database tools for every major subfield in mathemati