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Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
MATHEMATICS. Covering the essential math concepts learned in the first years of school, "Amazing Visual Math" brings a whole new dimension to learning. "Amazing Visual Math" is an interactive hands-on experience that makes math fun. Key curriculum subjects including shapes, patterns, telling time, lines of symmetry, addition, subtraction, measurement and more are explained through over 50 interactive elements throughout the book including pop-ups,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A mathematician and comedian offers games, puzzles, and hands-on activities to help those with a fear of math understand and enjoy the logical tools and abstract concepts of the subject normally only accessible at college-level study.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In How to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to the logic and beauty of mathematics, powered, unexpectedly, by insights from the kitchen: we learn, for example, how the béchamel in a lasagna can be a lot like the number 5, and why making a good custard proves that math is easy but life is hard."--Publisher description.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
Author
Publisher
Academic Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This book is intended to serve as reference for anyone concerned with the application of wavelets to signal processing. It has evolved from material used to teach "wavelet signal processing" courses in electrical engineering departments at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University, as well as applied mathematics departments at the Courant Institute of New York University and Ecole Polytechnique in Paris." "It provides a brood...
16) How math works
Author
Language
English
Description
Provides puzzles, tricks, and educational experiments designed to help students ages eight through fourteen discover how math works, with ideas and activities for learning about numbers, proportions, algebra, statistics, measurements, shapes, and logic.
20) Mathematics 1001: absolutely everything that matters in mathematics, in 1001 bite-sized explanations
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Language
English
Description
Provides a practical reference to all aspects of mathematics, using clear explanations of such key mathematical concepts as analysis, logic, metamathematics, and mathematical physics.