The Population Explosion And Other Mathematical Puzzles

Author : Dick Hess
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789814733779

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The Population Explosion and Other Mathematical Puzzles by Dick Hess Pdf

Population Explosion and Other Mathematical Puzzles is a wonderful addition to Dr Dick Hess's previous successful books, Mental Gymnastics: Recreational Mathematical Puzzles, Golf on the Moon, (Dover Publishing, 2011 and 2014 respectively) and Number-Crunching Math Puzzles (Puzzlewright, 2013), a republication of All-Star Mathlete Puzzles (Sterling Publishing, 2009). In this latest volume, there are 116 recreational mathematical puzzles and problems that will challenge and entertain bright minds. They are mostly new problems on creative themes, encompassing a wide range of difficulty from amusing to complex. Intended to hone mathematical thinking skills and reasoning ability, solving the puzzles may require considerable perseverance. Open this book to find a captivating assortment of geometric, digital, logical, probability, analytical, physics and trapezoid puzzles. Find out what happens with jeeps in the desert and be amused or confused by some MathDice puzzles. While most of these puzzles can be solved by pencil and paper analysis, there are some that are best tackled with a computer to find a solution. Be prepared to keep your wits about you! Contents: Playful PuzzlesGeometric PuzzlesDigital PuzzlesLogical PuzzlesProbability PuzzlesAnalytical PuzzlesPhysics PuzzlesTrapezoid PuzzlesJeeps in the DesertMathDice Puzzles Readership: Students, general public, professionals. Key Features:Mostly new problemsCreative themesA wide range of difficulty from amusing to complex

Author : Dick Hess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : GAMES
ISBN : 9814733768

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The Population Explosion and Other Mathematical Puzzles by Dick Hess Pdf

Author : Peter Winkler
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780429557972

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Mathematical Puzzles by Peter Winkler Pdf

Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles, but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases one's armory of techniques for doing mathematics. Mathematical Puzzles makes this connection explicit by isolating important mathematical methods, then using them to solve puzzles and prove a theorem. Features A collection of the world’s best mathematical puzzles Each chapter features a technique for solving mathematical puzzles, examples, and finally a genuine theorem of mathematics that features that technique in its proof Puzzles that are entertaining, mystifying, paradoxical, and satisfying; they are not just exercises or contest problems.

Author : Jennifer Beineke,Jason Rosenhouse
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780691194417

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The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects by Jennifer Beineke,Jason Rosenhouse Pdf

The history of mathematics is replete with examples of major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems. The modern theory of probability arose out of problems of concern to gamblers, for example, and modern combinatorics grew out of various games and puzzles. Despite this track record and a wealth of popular-level books, there remain few conduits for research in recreational mathematics. The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects now returns with an all-new third volume, presenting new research in diverse areas of recreational mathematics. This volume focuses on four areas: puzzles and brainteasers, games, algebra and number theory, and geometry and topology. Readers will create Spiral Galaxies, Japanese symmetric grid puzzles consisting of squares and circles whose solutions are letters and numbers; delve into a paradox in the game of Bingo; examine the card tricks of mathematician-philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce; learn about the mathematics behind Legos; and much more. Elucidating the many connections between mathematics and games, The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects is sure to challenge and inspire mathematicians and math enthusiasts.

Author : Mircea Pitici
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780691188720

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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2018 by Mircea Pitici Pdf

The year’s finest mathematical writing from around the world This annual anthology brings together the year’s finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2018 makes available to a wide audience many pieces not easily found anywhere else—and you don’t need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. These essays delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday aspects of math, offering surprising insights into its nature, meaning, and practice—and taking readers behind the scenes of today’s hottest mathematical debates. James Grime shows how to build subtly mischievous dice for playing slightly unfair games and Michael Barany traces how our appreciation of the societal importance of mathematics has developed since World War II. In other essays, Francis Su extolls the inherent values of learning, doing, and sharing mathematics, and Margaret Wertheim takes us on a mathematical exploration of the mind and the world—with glimpses at science, philosophy, music, art, and even crocheting. And there’s much, much more. In addition to presenting the year’s most memorable math writing, this must-have anthology includes an introduction by the editor and a bibliography of other notable pieces on mathematics. This is a must-read for anyone interested in where math has taken us—and where it is headed.

Author : S Purkayastha
Publisher : New Saraswati House India Pvt Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789386307880

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ICSE-Math Hub-TB-08 by S Purkayastha Pdf

ICSE-Math Book

Author : John Berry,Ken Houston
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06-17
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780340614044

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Mathematical Modelling by John Berry,Ken Houston Pdf

Assuming virtually no prior knowledge, Modular Mathematics encourages the reader to develop and solve real models, as well as looking at traditional examples. Accessible and concise, it contains tutorial problems, case studies and exercises.

Author : Nicolas Bacaër
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780857291158

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A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics by Nicolas Bacaër Pdf

As Eugene Wigner stressed, mathematics has proven unreasonably effective in the physical sciences and their technological applications. The role of mathematics in the biological, medical and social sciences has been much more modest but has recently grown thanks to the simulation capacity offered by modern computers. This book traces the history of population dynamics---a theoretical subject closely connected to genetics, ecology, epidemiology and demography---where mathematics has brought significant insights. It presents an overview of the genesis of several important themes: exponential growth, from Euler and Malthus to the Chinese one-child policy; the development of stochastic models, from Mendel's laws and the question of extinction of family names to percolation theory for the spread of epidemics, and chaotic populations, where determinism and randomness intertwine. The reader of this book will see, from a different perspective, the problems that scientists face when governments ask for reliable predictions to help control epidemics (AIDS, SARS, swine flu), manage renewable resources (fishing quotas, spread of genetically modified organisms) or anticipate demographic evolutions such as aging.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993-06
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000010536831

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard H. Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : OCLC:9227967

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Mathematics and Global Survival by Richard H. Schwartz Pdf

Author : Thomas G. Hallam,Simon A. Levin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783642698880

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Mathematical Ecology by Thomas G. Hallam,Simon A. Levin Pdf

There isprobably no more appropriate location to hold a course on mathematical ecology than Italy, the countryofVito Volterra, a founding father ofthe subject. The Trieste 1982Autumn Course on Mathematical Ecology consisted of four weeksofvery concentrated scholasticism and aestheticism. The first weeks were devoted to fundamentals and principles ofmathematicalecology. A nucleusofthe material from the lectures presented during this period constitutes this book. The final week and a half of the Course was apportioned to the Trieste Research Conference on Mathematical Ecology whose proceedings have been published as Volume 54, Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, Springer-Verlag. The objectivesofthe first portionofthe course wereambitious and, probably, unattainable. Basic principles of the areas of physiological, population, com munitY, and ecosystem ecology that have solid ecological and mathematical foundations were to be presented. Classical terminology was to be introduced, important fundamental topics were to be developed, some past and some current problems of interest were to be presented, and directions for possible research were to be provided. Due to time constraints, the coverage could not be encyclopedic;many areas covered already have merited treatises of book length. Consequently, preliminary foundation material was covered in some detail, but subject overviewsand area syntheseswerepresented when research frontiers were being discussed. These lecture notes reflect this course philosophy.

Author : United States. Commission on Population Growth and the American Future
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Population forecasting
ISBN : IND:30000056932290

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Statements at Public Hearings of the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future by United States. Commission on Population Growth and the American Future Pdf

Author : Michael Olinick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781118642696

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Mathematical Modeling in the Social and Life Sciences by Michael Olinick Pdf

Olinick’s Mathematical Models in the Social and Life Sciences concentrates not on physical models, but on models found in biology, social science, and daily life. This text concentrates on a relatively small number of models to allow students to study them critically and in depth, and balances practice and theory in its approach. Each chapter concluded with suggested projects that encourage students to build their own models, and space is set aside for historical and biographical notes about the development of mathematical models.

Author : D. Logofet
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351091220

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Matrices and Graphs Stability Problems in Mathematical Ecology by D. Logofet Pdf

Intuitive ideas of stability in dynamics of a biological population, community, or ecosystem can be formalized in the framework of corresponding mathematical models. These are often represented by systems of ordinary differential equations or difference equations. Matrices and Graphs covers achievements in the field using concepts from matrix theory and graph theory. The book effectively surveys applications of mathematical results pertinent to issues of theoretical and applied ecology. The only mathematical prerequisite for using Matrices and Graphs is a working knowledge of linear algebra and matrices. The book is ideal for biomathematicians, ecologists, and applied mathematicians doing research on dynamic behavior of model populations and communities consisting of multi-component systems. It will also be valuable as a text for a graduate-level topics course in applied math or mathematical ecology.

Author : Richard H. Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000029481359

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Mathematics and Global Survival by Richard H. Schwartz Pdf