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  • A Brief History of Mathematical Thought

    Key concepts and where they come from

    par Luke Heaton ...
    Collections series Brief Histories
    Mathematics is a product of human culture which has developed along with our attempts to comprehend the world around us. In A Brief History of Mathematical Thought, Luke Heaton explores how the language of mathematics has evolved over time, enabling new technologies and shaping the way people think. From stone-age rituals to algebra, calculus, and the concept of computation, Heaton shows the ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Great Mathematicians

    par Raymond Flood, Robin Wilson ...
    Mathematics pervades our daily lives. It is intimately involved whenever one starts a car, switches on the television, flies on a plane, forecasts the weather, books a holiday on the internet, programmes a computer, navigates heavy traffic, analyses statistical data, or seeks a cure for a disease. Our credit cards and the nation's defence secrets are kept secure by encryption methods based on ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Finding Zero

    A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers

    par Amir D. Aczel ...
    "A captivating story, not just an intellectual quest but a personal one . . . gripping [and] filled with the passion and wonder of numbers." — The New York TimesVirtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. But the story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery. Finding Zero is the saga of Amir ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Fluke

    The Math and Myth of Coincidence

    par Joseph Mazur ...
    A mathematical guide to understanding why life can seem to be one big coincidence-and why the odds of just about everything are better than we would think.What are the chances? This is the question we ask ourselves when we encounter the strangest and most seemingly impossible coincidences, like the woman who won the lottery four times or the fact that Lincoln's dreams foreshadowed his own ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011

    Modifié par Mircea Pitici ...
    Collections series The Best Writing on Mathematics
    The year's finest writing on mathematics from around the worldThis 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 2011 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else—and you don't need to be a mathematician to ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • My Search for Ramanujan

    How I Learned to Count

    par Ken Ono, Amir D. Aczel ...
    Collections series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    "The son of a prominent Japanese mathematician who came to the United States after World War II, Ken Ono was raised on a diet of high expectations and little praise. Rebelling against his pressure-cooker of a life, Ken determined to drop out of high school to follow his own path. To obtain his father’s approval, he invoked the biography of the famous Indian mathematical prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan ... En savoir plus

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Calculus Story

    A Mathematical Adventure

    par David Acheson ...
    Calculus is the key to much of modern science and engineering. It is the mathematical method for the analysis of things that change, and since in the natural world we are surrounded by change, the development of calculus was a huge breakthrough in the history of mathematics. But it is also something of a mathematical adventure, largely because of the way infinity enters at virtually every twist ... En savoir plus

    $13.39 CAD

  • 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development

    par Fletcher Dunn ...
    This engaging book presents the essential mathematics needed to describe, simulate, and render a 3D world. Reflecting both academic and in-the-trenches practical experience, the authors teach you how to describe objects and their positions, orientations, and trajectories in 3D using mathematics. The text provides an introduction to mathematics for ... En savoir plus

    $107.99 CAD

  • The Emergence of Probability

    A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

    par Ian Hacking ...
    Historical records show that there was no real concept of probability in Europe before the mid-seventeenth century, although the use of dice and other randomizing objects was commonplace. Ian Hacking presents a philosophical critique of early ideas about probability, induction, and statistical inference and the growth of this new family of ideas in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy

    par James Evans ...
    The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy combines new scholarship with hands-on science to bring readers into direct contact with the work of ancient astronomers. While tracing ideas from ancient Babylon to sixteenth-century Europe, the book places its greatest emphasis on the Greek period, when astronomers developed the geometric and philosophical ideas that have determined the subsequent ... En savoir plus

    $119.99 CAD

  • Who's Bigger?

    Where Historical Figures Really Rank

    par Charles B. Ward, Steven Skiena ...
    Is Hitler bigger than Napoleon? Washington bigger than Lincoln? Picasso bigger than Einstein? Quantitative analysts are rapidly finding homes in social and cultural domains, from finance to politics. What about history? In this fascinating book, Steve Skiena and Charles Ward bring quantitative analysis to bear on ranking and comparing historical reputations. They evaluate each person by ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    par Øystein Linnebo ...
    Collections series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
    A sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of mathematics from one of its leading contemporary scholarsMathematics is one of humanity's most successful yet puzzling endeavors. It is a model of precision and objectivity, but appears distinct from the empirical sciences because it seems to deliver nonexperiential knowledge of a nonphysical reality of numbers, sets, and functions. How ... En savoir plus

    $42.89 CAD