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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

A Compact History of Infinity

par David Foster Wallace ...

"A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite."—The New York Times. With a new introduction by Neal Stephenson.Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth ... En savoir plus

$17.99 CAD

"A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite."—The New York Times. With a new introduction by Neal Stephenson.Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth
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Mathématiques en 30 secondes

Les 50 plus grandes théories en mathématique

par Richard Brown ...

Traduit par Eulalie Steens ...

Le nombre Pi, la poussée d’Archimède et la trigonométrie ne sont pour vous que de lointains souvenirs d’école. Les équations comme les polynômes ou les fractales vous laissent pantois. Mathématiques en 30 secondes saura vous initier à ce champ de connaissances qui mêle rigueur et poésie. Cet ouvrage de vulgarisation intelligente vous éclairera sur les 50 principales théories en mathématiques en un ... En savoir plus

$10.99 CAD

Le nombre Pi, la poussée d’Archimède et la trigonométrie ne sont pour vous que de lointains souvenirs d’école. Les équations comme les polynômes ou les fractales vous laissent pantois. Mathématiques en 30 secondes saura vous initier à ce champ de connaissances qui mêle rigueur et poésie. Cet ouvrage de vulgarisation intelligente vous éclairera sur les 50 principales théories en mathématiques en un
... En savoir plus
Journey to the Edge of Reason

The Life of Kurt Gödel

par Stephen Budiansky ...

The first major biography written for a general audience of the logician and mathematician whose Incompleteness Theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution.Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true—yet never provable—continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet ... En savoir plus

$21.99 CAD

The first major biography written for a general audience of the logician and mathematician whose Incompleteness Theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution.Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true—yet never provable—continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet
... En savoir plus
The System of the World(Best Navigation, Active TOC)

par Isaac Newton ...

The System of the World by Isaac Newton. Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.This great work supplied the momentum for the Scientific Revolution and dominated physics for over 200 years.It was the ancient opinion of not a few, in the ... En savoir plus

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The System of the World by Isaac Newton. Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.This great work supplied the momentum for the Scientific Revolution and dominated physics for over 200 years.It was the ancient opinion of not a few, in the
... En savoir plus
Discover Your Inner Psychic

A practical guide to psychic development & spiritual growth

par Tara Ward ...

Psychic abilities are innate to all humans. This illustrated book helps you to explore and develop this inner part of yourself through a series of meditations and exercises. Through these you will learn how to:• Read auras• Open the seven chakras• Channel and balance your energy• Use colours, scents and crystals to alter your space• Practice psychometry readings and flower clairsentienceThrough ... En savoir plus

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Psychic abilities are innate to all humans. This illustrated book helps you to explore and develop this inner part of yourself through a series of meditations and exercises. Through these you will learn how to:• Read auras• Open the seven chakras• Channel and balance your energy• Use colours, scents and crystals to alter your space• Practice psychometry readings and flower clairsentienceThrough
... En savoir plus
Introduction to Set Theory, Revised and Expanded

par Karel Hrbacek, Thomas Jech ...

Collections series Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics
Thoroughly revised, updated, expanded, and reorganized to serve as a primary text for mathematics courses, Introduction to Set Theory, Third Edition covers the basics: relations, functions, orderings, finite, countable, and uncountable sets, and cardinal and ordinal numbers. It also provides five additional self-contained chapters, consolidates the material on real numbers into a single updated ... En savoir plus

$200.99 CAD

Thoroughly revised, updated, expanded, and reorganized to serve as a primary text for mathematics courses, Introduction to Set Theory, Third Edition covers the basics: relations, functions, orderings, finite, countable, and uncountable sets, and cardinal and ordinal numbers. It also provides five additional self-contained chapters, consolidates the material on real numbers into a single updated
... En savoir plus
The Baseball Mysteries

Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives

par Jerry Butters, Jim Henle ...

Collections series AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
The Baseball Mysteries: Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives is a book of baseball puzzles, logical baseball puzzles. To jump in, all you need is logic and a casual fan’s knowledge of the game. The puzzles are solved by reasoning from the rules of the game and a few facts.The logic in the puzzles is like legal reasoning. A solution must argue from evidence (the facts) and law (the rules). ... En savoir plus

$53.99 CAD

The Baseball Mysteries: Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives is a book of baseball puzzles, logical baseball puzzles. To jump in, all you need is logic and a casual fan’s knowledge of the game. The puzzles are solved by reasoning from the rules of the game and a few facts.The logic in the puzzles is like legal reasoning. A solution must argue from evidence (the facts) and law (the rules).
... En savoir plus
Naive Set Theory

par Paul R. Halmos ...

Collections series Dover Books on Mathematics
This classic by one of the twentieth century's most prominent mathematicians offers a concise introduction to set theory. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in mathematics, it employs the language and notation of informal mathematics. There are very few displayed theorems; most of the facts are stated in simple terms, followed by a sketch of the proof. Only a few exercises ... En savoir plus

$14.99 CAD

This classic by one of the twentieth century's most prominent mathematicians offers a concise introduction to set theory. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in mathematics, it employs the language and notation of informal mathematics. There are very few displayed theorems; most of the facts are stated in simple terms, followed by a sketch of the proof. Only a few exercises
... En savoir plus
Lectures on Real Analysis

par Finnur Lárusson ...

Collections Livre 21 - Australian Mathematical Society Lecture Series
This is a rigorous introduction to real analysis for undergraduate students, starting from the axioms for a complete ordered field and a little set theory. The book avoids any preconceptions about the real numbers and takes them to be nothing but the elements of a complete ordered field. All of the standard topics are included, as well as a proper treatment of the trigonometric functions, which ... En savoir plus

$61.99 CAD

This is a rigorous introduction to real analysis for undergraduate students, starting from the axioms for a complete ordered field and a little set theory. The book avoids any preconceptions about the real numbers and takes them to be nothing but the elements of a complete ordered field. All of the standard topics are included, as well as a proper treatment of the trigonometric functions, which
... En savoir plus
Elements of Set Theory

par Herbert B. Enderton ...

This is an introductory undergraduate textbook in set theory. In mathematics these days, essentially everything is a set. Some knowledge of set theory is necessary part of the background everyone needs for further study of mathematics. It is also possible to study set theory for its own interest--it is a subject with intruiging results anout simple objects. This book starts with material that ... En savoir plus

$51.99 CAD

This is an introductory undergraduate textbook in set theory. In mathematics these days, essentially everything is a set. Some knowledge of set theory is necessary part of the background everyone needs for further study of mathematics. It is also possible to study set theory for its own interest--it is a subject with intruiging results anout simple objects. This book starts with material that
... En savoir plus
Set Theory

A First Course

par Daniel W. Cunningham ...

Collections series Cambridge Mathematical Textbooks
Set theory is a rich and beautiful subject whose fundamental concepts permeate virtually every branch of mathematics. One could say that set theory is a unifying theory for mathematics, since nearly all mathematical concepts and results can be formalized within set theory. This textbook is meant for an upper undergraduate course in set theory. In this text, the fundamentals of abstract sets, ... En savoir plus

$66.99 CAD

Set theory is a rich and beautiful subject whose fundamental concepts permeate virtually every branch of mathematics. One could say that set theory is a unifying theory for mathematics, since nearly all mathematical concepts and results can be formalized within set theory. This textbook is meant for an upper undergraduate course in set theory. In this text, the fundamentals of abstract sets,
... En savoir plus
A Bridge to Higher Mathematics

par Valentin Deaconu, Donald C. Pfaff ...

Collections series Textbooks in Mathematics
A Bridge to Higher Mathematics is more than simply another book to aid the transition to advanced mathematics. The authors intend to assist students in developing a deeper understanding of mathematics and mathematical thought.The only way to understand mathematics is by doing mathematics. The reader will learn the language of axioms and theorems and will write convincing and cogent proofs using ... En savoir plus

$173.99 CAD

A Bridge to Higher Mathematics is more than simply another book to aid the transition to advanced mathematics. The authors intend to assist students in developing a deeper understanding of mathematics and mathematical thought.The only way to understand mathematics is by doing mathematics. The reader will learn the language of axioms and theorems and will write convincing and cogent proofs using
... En savoir plus
Introduction to Math Olympiad Problems

par Michael A. Radin ...

Introduction to Math Olympiad Problems aims to introduce high school students to all the necessary topics that frequently emerge in international Math Olympiad competitions. In addition to introducing the topics, the book will also provide several repetitive-type guided problems to help develop vital techniques in solving problems correctly and efficiently. The techniques employed in the book will ... En savoir plus

$59.99 CAD

Introduction to Math Olympiad Problems aims to introduce high school students to all the necessary topics that frequently emerge in international Math Olympiad competitions. In addition to introducing the topics, the book will also provide several repetitive-type guided problems to help develop vital techniques in solving problems correctly and efficiently. The techniques employed in the book will
... En savoir plus
Infinity And Truth

par Chitat Chong, Qi Feng, Theodore A Slaman, W Hugh Woodin ...

Collections Livre 25 - Lecture Notes Series, Institute For Mathematical Sciences, National University Of Singapore
This volume is based on the talks given at the Workshop on Infinity and Truth held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, from 25 to 29 July 2011. The chapters cover topics in mathematical and philosophical logic that examine various aspects of the foundations of mathematics. The theme of the volume focuses on two basic foundational questions: (i) What is the ... En savoir plus

$29.99 CAD

This volume is based on the talks given at the Workshop on Infinity and Truth held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, from 25 to 29 July 2011. The chapters cover topics in mathematical and philosophical logic that examine various aspects of the foundations of mathematics. The theme of the volume focuses on two basic foundational questions: (i) What is the
... En savoir plus
Esercizi di matematica: teoria degli insiemi e funzioni

par Simone Malacrida ...

In questo libro sono svolti degli esercizi riguardo i seguenti argomenti matematici:teoria degli insiemifunzioni e proprietà delle funzioniSono altresì presentati dei cenni teorici iniziali per fare comprendere lo svolgimento degli esercizi. ... En savoir plus

$4.99 CAD

In questo libro sono svolti degli esercizi riguardo i seguenti argomenti matematici:teoria degli insiemifunzioni e proprietà delle funzioniSono altresì presentati dei cenni teorici iniziali per fare comprendere lo svolgimento degli esercizi.
... En savoir plus
You Create Your Reality: Mathematical Evidence

par Richard Lighthouse ...

This short technical ebook presents a summary of the universal probabilities involved from the perspective of a single elementary particle. There are numerous probabilities that have near-infinite variations. Combined together, we can conclude that for all practical purposes the total probabilities are infinite, in our terms. Seth was fond of stating that, "There are no coincidences," and "There ... En savoir plus

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This short technical ebook presents a summary of the universal probabilities involved from the perspective of a single elementary particle. There are numerous probabilities that have near-infinite variations. Combined together, we can conclude that for all practical purposes the total probabilities are infinite, in our terms. Seth was fond of stating that, "There are no coincidences," and "There
... En savoir plus
Henri Poincaré, le problème des trois corps

par Jacques Hadamard ...

Si on se rappelle à quel point l’œuvre de Poincaré est comme adéquate à toute la science mathématique, pure ou appliquée, que notre époque a produite, et la pénètre dans toutes ses manifestations, on aura compris par avance que la partie en quelque sorte centrale de cette œuvre corresponde au problème qui joue lui-même le rôle principal dans les mathématiques modernes. Ce problème, que les appli.. ... En savoir plus

$2.40 CAD

Si on se rappelle à quel point l’œuvre de Poincaré est comme adéquate à toute la science mathématique, pure ou appliquée, que notre époque a produite, et la pénètre dans toutes ses manifestations, on aura compris par avance que la partie en quelque sorte centrale de cette œuvre corresponde au problème qui joue lui-même le rôle principal dans les mathématiques modernes. Ce problème, que les appli..
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Limits of Computation

An Introduction to the Undecidable and the Intractable

par Edna E. Reiter, Clayton Matthew Johnson ...

Limits of Computation: An Introduction to the Undecidable and the Intractable offers a gentle introduction to the theory of computational complexity. It explains the difficulties of computation, addressing problems that have no algorithm at all and problems that cannot be solved efficiently. The book enables readers to understand:What does it mean ... En savoir plus

$200.99 CAD

Limits of Computation: An Introduction to the Undecidable and the Intractable offers a gentle introduction to the theory of computational complexity. It explains the difficulties of computation, addressing problems that have no algorithm at all and problems that cannot be solved efficiently. The book enables readers to understand:What does it mean
... En savoir plus
Polynomial Completeness in Algebraic Systems

par Kalle Kaarli, Alden F. Pixley ...

The study of polynomial completeness of algebraic systems has only recently matured, and until now, lacked a unified treatment. Polynomial Completeness in Algebraic Systems examines the entire field with one coherent approach. The authors focus on the theory of affine complete varieties but also give the primary known results on affine completeness in special varieties. The book includes an ... En savoir plus

$130.53 CAD

The study of polynomial completeness of algebraic systems has only recently matured, and until now, lacked a unified treatment. Polynomial Completeness in Algebraic Systems examines the entire field with one coherent approach. The authors focus on the theory of affine complete varieties but also give the primary known results on affine completeness in special varieties. The book includes an
... En savoir plus
Multiple Fixed-Point Theorems and Applications in the Theory of ODEs, FDEs and PDEs

par Khaled Zennir, Svetlin Georgiev ...

Collections series Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs and Research Notes in Mathematics
Multiple Fixed-Point Theorems and Applications in the Theory of ODEs, FDEs and PDEs covers all the basics of the subject of fixed-point theory and its applications with a strong focus on examples, proofs and practical problems, thus making it ideal as course material but also as a reference for self-study.Many problems in science lead to nonlinear equations T x + F x = x posed in some closed ... En savoir plus

$322.92 CAD

Multiple Fixed-Point Theorems and Applications in the Theory of ODEs, FDEs and PDEs covers all the basics of the subject of fixed-point theory and its applications with a strong focus on examples, proofs and practical problems, thus making it ideal as course material but also as a reference for self-study.Many problems in science lead to nonlinear equations T x + F x = x posed in some closed
... En savoir plus
Discrete Mathematics

An Open Introduction

par Oscar Levin ...

Collections series Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction, Fourth Edition aims to provide an introduction to select topics in discrete mathematics at a level appropriate for first or second year undergraduate math and computer science majors, especially those who intend to teach middle and high school mathematics. The book began as a set of notes for the Discrete Mathematics course at the University of Northern ... En savoir plus

$97.99 CAD

Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction, Fourth Edition aims to provide an introduction to select topics in discrete mathematics at a level appropriate for first or second year undergraduate math and computer science majors, especially those who intend to teach middle and high school mathematics. The book began as a set of notes for the Discrete Mathematics course at the University of Northern
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A Beginner’s Guide to Mathematical Proof

par Mark J. DeBonis ...

A Beginner’s Guide to Mathematical Proof prepares mathematics majors for the transition to abstract mathematics, as well as introducing a wider readership of quantitative science students, such as engineers, to the mathematical structures underlying more applied topics.The text is designed to be easily utilized by both instructor and student, with an accessible, step-by-step approach requiring ... En savoir plus

$101.99 CAD

A Beginner’s Guide to Mathematical Proof prepares mathematics majors for the transition to abstract mathematics, as well as introducing a wider readership of quantitative science students, such as engineers, to the mathematical structures underlying more applied topics.The text is designed to be easily utilized by both instructor and student, with an accessible, step-by-step approach requiring
... En savoir plus
Classic Set Theory

For Guided Independent Study

par D.C. Goldrei ...

Designed for undergraduate students of set theory, Classic Set Theory presents a modern perspective of the classic work of Georg Cantor and Richard Dedekin and their immediate successors. This includes:The definition of the real numbers in terms of rational numbers and ultimately in terms of natural numbersDefining natural numbers in terms of setsThe potential paradoxes in set theoryThe Zermelo ... En savoir plus

$166.99 CAD

Designed for undergraduate students of set theory, Classic Set Theory presents a modern perspective of the classic work of Georg Cantor and Richard Dedekin and their immediate successors. This includes:The definition of the real numbers in terms of rational numbers and ultimately in terms of natural numbersDefining natural numbers in terms of setsThe potential paradoxes in set theoryThe Zermelo
... En savoir plus
Topics in Model Theory

par Anand Pillay ...

This book has two chapters. The first is a modern or contemporary account of stability theory. A focus is on the local (formula-by-formula) theory, treated a little differently from in the author's book Geometric Stability Theory. There is also a survey of general and geometric stability theory, as well as applications to combinatorics (stable regularity lemma) using pseudofinite methods.The ... En savoir plus

$24.99 CAD

This book has two chapters. The first is a modern or contemporary account of stability theory. A focus is on the local (formula-by-formula) theory, treated a little differently from in the author's book Geometric Stability Theory. There is also a survey of general and geometric stability theory, as well as applications to combinatorics (stable regularity lemma) using pseudofinite methods.The
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