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24) 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.
25) 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.
Author
Language
English
Description
"This tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in everyday life. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the ways math trips us up." --
Author
Series
Publisher
World Scientific
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"This book introduces a method of reasearch which can be used in various fields of mathematics. It examines, in a systematic way, the quantitative characterizations of the "deviation from a (given) property", called the "defect of a property", in: set theory; topology; measure theory; real, complex and functional analysis; algebra; geometry; number theory; fuzzy mathematics"--P. [2] of cover.
39) Cool math: math tricks, amazing math activities, cool calculations, awesome math factoids and more
Author
Publisher
Price Stern Sloan
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Describes mathematics from zero to infinity with stops along the way for ancient puzzles, awesome math tricks, tantalizing math trivia, incredible shortcuts, and mysterious number magic.