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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
See how a woman, Lubna, rose to prominence as the most renowned mathematician of her day in the glittering intellectual capital Cordoba and get a better understanding of women’s education in the Muslim world and beyond. You’ll see that, while Lubna was extraordinary, she was not necessarily unique to her time and place.
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
Description
Introducing sophisticated mathematical ideas like fractals and infinity, these hands-on activity books present concepts to children using interactive and comprehensible methods. With intriguing projects that cover a wide range of math content and skills, these are ideal resources for elementary school mathematics enrichment programs, regular classroom instruction, and home-school programs. Reproducible activity sheets lead students through a process...
5) The numerati
Author
Language
English
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Description
Discusses entrepreneurial mathematics, or the harnessing of private data provided by consumers when they use credit cards, donate money, or access the Internet, for the purpose of tailoring marketing and sales efforts toward individuals under the guise of making life easier.
6) Rumble bus
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Passengers get on and off the bus, providing a lesson in addition and subtraction.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
From addition and subtraction to plane and space geometry, simultaneous linear equations, and probability, this book explains middle school math with problems that kids want to solve: "Seventy-five employees of a company buy a lotto ticket together and win $22.5 million. How much does each employee get?-Intriguing facts about the history of math show what a human creation it is, and human errors are revealed through explorations of both Maya and Hindu...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Argues that technological changes alter society's ethical and social arrangements and that solar energy, genetic engineering, and worldwide communication have the potential to create a more equal distribution of the world's wealth.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Test the popular theory that six steps, at most, connect you to any person on the planet. Social networks like Facebook provide a wealth of data for quantifying our relative connectedness. See how graph theory helps you to visualize any linked phenomena.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Time series analysis provides a way to model response data that is correlated with itself, from one point in time to the next, such as daily stock prices or weather history. After disentangling seasonal changes from longer-term patterns, consider methods that can model a dependency on time, collectively known as ARIMA (autoregressive integrated moving average) models.
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
An authoriative guide to the mathematical shapes around us: how they're formed, how they're studied, and how they're applied to our everyday lives. With these lectures presented in three parts you will discover the intricate relationship between mathematics and nature, get a pointed introduction to the language mathematicians use to study shapes and dimensions, and learn how to finally make sense of this abstract intriguing subject.
14) Women in Science
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Three physicists - Claudia de Rham, Jenny Nelson, Joanna Haigh - and one mathematician - Ian Stewart - discuss the issue of gender in the mathematical sciences.
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Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Edinburgh philosopher and amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie finds herself tested as a parent, philosopher, sleuth, and friend when a wealthy art collector seeks her help when a valuable painting is stolen from him. At the same time, Isabel must decide what to do with her son when she discovers he is a budding mathematical genius.
Series
Publisher
Great Courses
Pub. Date
�2008
Language
English
Description
Game theory plays a crucial role in our lives and provides startling insights into all endeavors in which humans cooperate or compete, including biology, computer science, politics, agriculture, and, most importantly, economics. Game theory is used in economics, corporate decision-making, international diplomacy and military strategy, psychology, and evolutionary biology. Game theory is observable in everyday situations like buying a car, or deciding...
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Language
English
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"Ruminations on every scientific subject over the sun -- and plenty beyond it" -- from the bestselling author of The Universe and the Teacup ( The Boston Globe ). A San Jose Mercury News Best Book of the Year A recipient of the American Institute of Physics Award for Best Science Writer, K. C. Cole offers a wide-ranging collection of essays about the nature of nature, the universals in the universe, and the messy playfulness of great science. In witty...
Publisher
Benchmark Media
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Key concepts explained: converting percentages into decimals and fractions, and converting decimals and fractions into percentages.. Taking examples from the widespread use of percentages in everyday life from the percentage of cappuchinos to regular coffee a coffee shop sells, to the percentage of sharks to other fish in an aquarium, our young guide illustrates: 1.The meaning of a percentage as a number out of one hundred 2.Writing a percentage as...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger: these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Labatut's book thrusts the...
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