The Power Of Numbers

Author : Talithia Williams
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780760360286

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From rocket scientists to code breakers, “fascinating stories” of women who overcame obstacles, shattered stereotypes, and pursued their passion for math (Notices of the American Mathematical Society). With more than 200 photos and original interviews with several of the amazing women covered, Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics is a full-color volume that puts a spotlight on the influence of women on the development of mathematics over the last two millennia. Each biography reveals the life of a different female mathematician, from her childhood and early influences to the challenges she faced and the great achievements she made in spite of them. Learn how: After her father terminated her math lessons, Sofia Kovalevskaya snuck algebra books into her bed to read at night Emmy Noether became an invaluable resource to Albert Einstein while she was in the Navy Native American rocket scientist Mary Golda Ross developed designs for fighter jets and missiles in a top-secret unit Katherine Johnson’s life-or-death calculations at NASA meant that astronauts such as Alan Shepard and John Glenn made it home alive Shakuntala Devi multiplied massive numbers in her head so her family could eat at night Pamela Harris proved her school counselors wrong when they told her she would only succeed as a bilinguial secretary Carla Cotwright-Williams began her life in the dangerous streets of South-Central Los Angeles before skyrocketing to a powerful career with the Department of Defense in Washington, DC These women are a diverse group, but their stories have one thing in common: At some point on their journeys, someone believed in them—and made them think the impossible was perhaps not so impossible. “A quick read . . . full of dramatic stories and eye-catching illustrations.” —MAA Reviews “I found myself marveling at the personal anecdotes and quotes throughout the book.” —Notices of the American Mathematical Society

Author : Jesse Kalsi
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781452522333

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The Power of Home Numbers by Jesse Kalsi Pdf

THE POWER OF HOME NUMBERS “Jesse Kalsi has appeared as a guest on my radio program, Seeing Beyond, many times. His unique method of combining numerology and astrology to help people is always intriguing. Jesse’s professional and compassionate nature is always welcome on my radio.” —Bonnie Coleen Host/Producer Seeing Beyond Talk Radio “He was a most enjoyable guest and I highly recommend him for radio and television programs.” —Christine Craft KGO AM 810 Radio San Francisco, California “The Power of Home Numbers is a must-read for all who seek a deeper understanding of the meaning of numbers and our everyday connection to them.” —Lisa K. Crosato Actress and Producer

Author : James DeNardo
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400855025

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Power in Numbers by James DeNardo Pdf

This book explores the logic of struggle between radical movements and incumbent regimes, and develops a general theory of strategy in protests, uprisings, and rebellions. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Joshua Cole
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0801437016

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The Power of Large Numbers by Joshua Cole Pdf

French government officials have long been known among Europeans for the special attention they give to the state of their population. In the first half of the nineteenth century, as Paris doubled in size and twice suffered the convulsions of popular revolution, civic leaders looked with alarm at what they deemed a dangerous population explosion. After defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, however, the falling birthrate generated widespread fears of cultural and national decline. In response, legislators promoted larger families and the view that a well-regulated family life was essential for France.In this innovative work of cultural history, Joshua Cole examines the course of French thinking and policymaking on population issues from the 1780s until the outbreak of the Great War. During these decades increasingly sophisticated statistical methods for describing and analyzing such topics as fertility, family size, and longevity made new kinds of aggregate knowledge available to social scientists and government officials. Cole recounts how this information heavily influenced the outcome of debates over the scope and range of public welfare legislation. In particular, as the fear of depopulation grew, the state wielded statistical data to justify increasing intervention in family life and continued restrictions on the autonomy of women.

Author : Tamara Plakins Thornton
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469626949

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Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers by Tamara Plakins Thornton Pdf

In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century capitalism while transforming American life more broadly. Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularity of the physical universe, Bowditch operated and represented some of New England's most powerful institutions—from financial corporations to Harvard College—as clockwork mechanisms. By examining Bowditch's pathbreaking approaches to institutions, as well as the political and social controversies they provoked, Thornton's biography sheds new light on the rise of capitalism, American science, and social elites in the early republic. Fleshing out the multiple careers of Nathaniel Bowditch, this book is at once a lively biography, a window into the birth of bureaucracy, and a portrait of patrician life, giving us a broader, more-nuanced understanding of how powerful capitalists operated during this era and how the emerging quantitative sciences shaped the modern experience.

Author : Numero
Publisher : Health Research Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0939093324

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Power of Numbers by Numero Pdf

Author : Ruth Drayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0964032104

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Numerology by Ruth Drayer Pdf

This guide for the beginner as well as the advanced numerologist aids in constructing charts and interpreting information coded in one's birthday and name.

Author : Lynn M. Osen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1975-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262650096

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Women in Mathematics by Lynn M. Osen Pdf

Mathematicians, science historians, and general readers will find this book a lively history; women will find it a reminder of a proud tradition and a challenge to take their rightful place in academic life today. The colorful lives of these women, who often traveled in the most avant-garde circles of their day, are presented in fascinating detail. The obstacles and censures that were also a part of their lives are a sobering reminder of the bias against women still present in this and other fields of academic endeavor. Mathematicians, science historians, and general readers will find this book a lively history; women will find it a reminder of a proud tradition and a challenge to take their rightful place in academic life today.

Author : Schrödinger,Stilovsky
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781728394510

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The Power of Numbers by Schrödinger,Stilovsky Pdf

In today’s world, the use of numbers grows by the day, and we depend on them for so much. This book contains a series of lists that contain information about numbers and their use in society. They will be most useful to those with a quizzical nature but should be of general interest to all. ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ was an infamous and cruel thought experiment dreamt up in the last century to expose one of the mistaken ideas current in science at that time. Since escaping from the box Felix has taken up writing and, in collaboration with retired water engineer Pyotr Stilovsky, he has compiled this factual compendium.

Author : Michael James Makled
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1420805886

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The Power of Numbers by Michael James Makled Pdf

One day while laying in the backyard with his sister and mom, a star blinked at Michael, then a pile of numbers fell on them, and they were granted the power of numbers giving the ability to effect things around them by calling on their new gift. You will find how they change things around them by whispering - by the power of numbers...-and everything will respond to their command. While that process fun at first, Michael found out there are things better left as is, which created funny and educational situations that all children can identify with and enjoy along with the whole family.

Author : Philippe Douste-Blazy
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781458715296

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Power in Numbers by Philippe Douste-Blazy Pdf

The story of UNITAID begins with two world leaders but quickly becomes a lesson in popular philanthropy, involving millions of people each making a small contribution to a program aimed at treating and ultimately eliminating the threat of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in the developing world. In partnership with the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI), UNICEF, and other organizations, UNITAID has pioneered techniques for raising massive amounts of money from a wide pool of donors. UNITAIDs newest program, collecting small contributions via a check-box on the worlds biggest travel websites, launches in the United States in January 2010. It is a fascinating model for philanthropy, proving that you can scale up both the fundraising and the ambition of lifesaving treatment programs. Moreover, UNITAID has proved able to continue its work uninterrupted by the financial turmoil that has blighted other private and government aid programs. It provides a model for challenging times. Launched as a crucial component of UNITAIDs Massive Good substantial national publicity and promotion campaign, Power in Numbers is an inspiring case study for anyone interested in social justice, public health, philanthropy, or fundraising.

Author : Julia Resnik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351336031

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The Power of Numbers and Networks by Julia Resnik Pdf

This book is an important contribution to the understanding of the complex education policies of the twenty-first century. It unites world renowned comparatists of education in an effort to respond to the challenges raised by the multidimensional and multi-scalar aspects of education policies. In their attempt to decipher the tangled world of education policies, the authors underline the power of numbers, the power of networks and the power of new concepts and methodologies. The power of numbers – education through numbers via students’ assessments and national or international testing impacts upon our educational choices and reinforces its instrumental aspects. The power of networks – sheds light on the complexity of the education global governance network by focusing on how international governmental organisations (IGOs), such as UNESCO, the OECD and the World Bank carry out policy and on the intricate ways an educational concern becomes part of the international agenda. The power of concepts and methods – policymaking is increasingly dynamic and involves many different stakeholders, including states, private corporations, IGOs, scholars and non-profit organisations. Contributors to this volume have developed new conceptual and methodological perspectives to study the circulation of educational models worldwide. A relational notion of space, the concept of ‘diaspora’ as a space of relations of social actors or the global comparative approach and a methodology drawn on actors-network theory are among the propositions yielded by the authors in order to make sense of and grasp the complexity of education policies today. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalisation, Societies and Education.

Author : John Snart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Arithmetic
ISBN : OXFORD:590923274

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The power of numbers exemplified by the laws of permutation by John Snart Pdf

Author : Chip Heath,Karla Starr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781982165451

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Making Numbers Count by Chip Heath,Karla Starr Pdf

A clear, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to communicating and understanding numbers and data—from bestselling business author Chip Heath. How much bigger is a billion than a million? Well, a million seconds is twelve days. A billion seconds is…thirty-two years. Understanding numbers is essential—but humans aren’t built to understand them. Until very recently, most languages had no words for numbers greater than five—anything from six to infinity was known as “lots.” While the numbers in our world have gotten increasingly complex, our brains are stuck in the past. How can we translate millions and billions and milliseconds and nanometers into things we can comprehend and use? Author Chip Heath has excelled at teaching others about making ideas stick and here, in Making Numbers Count, he outlines specific principles that reveal how to translate a number into our brain’s language. This book is filled with examples of extreme number makeovers, vivid before-and-after examples that take a dry number and present it in a way that people click in and say “Wow, now I get it!” You will learn principles such as: -SIMPLE PERSPECTIVE CUES: researchers at Microsoft found that adding one simple comparison sentence doubled how accurately users estimated statistics like population and area of countries. -VIVIDNESS: get perspective on the size of a nucleus by imagining a bee in a cathedral, or a pea in a racetrack, which are easier to envision than “1/100,000th of the size of an atom.” -CONVERT TO A PROCESS: capitalize on our intuitive sense of time (5 gigabytes of music storage turns into “2 months of commutes, without repeating a song”). -EMOTIONAL MEASURING STICKS: frame the number in a way that people already care about (“that medical protocol would save twice as many women as curing breast cancer”). Whether you’re interested in global problems like climate change, running a tech firm or a farm, or just explaining how many Cokes you’d have to drink if you burned calories like a hummingbird, this book will help math-lovers and math-haters alike translate the numbers that animate our world—allowing us to bring more data, more naturally, into decisions in our schools, our workplaces, and our society.

Author : D. Stein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780061828683

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How Math Explains the World by D. Stein Pdf

In How Math Explains the World, mathematician Stein reveals how seemingly arcane mathematical investigations and discoveries have led to bigger, more world-shaking insights into the nature of our world. In the four main sections of the book, Stein tells the stories of the mathematical thinkers who discerned some of the most fundamental aspects of our universe. From their successes and failures, delusions, and even duels, the trajectories of their innovations—and their impact on society—are traced in this fascinating narrative. Quantum mechanics, space-time, chaos theory and the workings of complex systems, and the impossibility of a "perfect" democracy are all here. Stein's book is both mind-bending and practical, as he explains the best way for a salesman to plan a trip, examines why any thought you could have is imbedded in the number p , and—perhaps most importantly—answers one of the modern world's toughest questions: why the garage can never get your car repaired on time. Friendly, entertaining, and fun, How Math Explains the World is the first book by one of California's most popular math teachers, a veteran of both "math for poets" and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies. And it's perfect for any reader wanting to know how math makes both science and the world tick.