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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
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
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
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) The math book: from pythagoras to the 57th dimension, 250 milestones in the history of mathematics
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Language
English
Description
When did humans tie their first knots? Why was the first woman mathematician murdered? Is it possible to turn a sphere inside out? These are just a few of the thought-provoking questions answered in this beautifully illlustrated book. Author Clifford Pickover reveals the magic and the mystery behind some of the most significant milestones as well as the oddest objects and ideas humanity has ever contemplated, beginning in 150 million B.C. and ending...