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Book Synopsis Mathematical Apocrypha Redux: More Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical by : Steven G. Krantz
Download or read book Mathematical Apocrypha Redux: More Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical written by Steven G. Krantz and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to Mathematical Apocrypha (published in 2002) this second volume of anecdotes, stories, quips, and ruminations about mathematics and mathematicians is sure to please. It differs from other books of its type in that many of the stories are from the twentieth century and many about currently living mathematicians. A number of the best stories come from the author's first-hand experience. The writing is lively, engaging, and informative. There are stories the reader may wish to share with students and colleagues, friends, and relatives. The purpose of the book is to explore and to celebrate the many facets of mathematical life. The stories reveal mathematicians as intense, human, and sympathetic. They should resonate with readers everywhere. This book will appeal to students from high school through graduate school, to faculty and mathematical scientists of all stripes, and also to physicists, engineer, and anyone interested in mathematics.
Book Synopsis Mathematical Apocrypha: Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical by : Steven G. Krantz
Download or read book Mathematical Apocrypha: Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical written by Steven G. Krantz and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Five Hundred Mathematical Challenges by : Edward J. Barbeau
Download or read book Five Hundred Mathematical Challenges written by Edward J. Barbeau and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1995-12-31 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 500 problems that range over a wide spectrum of areas of high school mathematics and levels of difficulty. Some are simple mathematical puzzlers while others are serious problems at the Olympiad level. Students of all levels of interest and ability will be entertained and taught by the book. For many problems, more than one solution is supplied so that students can see how different approaches can be taken to a problem and compare the elegance and efficiency of different tools that might be applied. Teachers at both the college and secondary levels will find the book useful, both for encouraging their students and for their own pleasure. Some of the problems can be used to provide a little spice in the regular curriculum by demonstrating the power of very basic techniques. This collection provides a solid base for students who wish to enter competitions at the Olympiad level. They can begin with easy problems and progress to more demanding ones. A special mathematical tool chest summarizes the results and techniques needed by competition-level students.
Download or read book Sophie’s Diary written by Dora Musielak and published by American Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie Germain overcame gender stigmas and a lack of formal education to prove that for all prime exponents less than 100 Case I of Fermat's Last Theorem holds. Hidden behind a man's name, her brilliance as mathematician was first discovered by three of the greatest scholars of the eighteenth century, Lagrange, Gauss, and Legendre. In Sophie's Diary, Germain comes to life through a fictionalized journal that intertwines mathematics with historical descriptions of the brutal events that took place in Paris between 1789 and 1793. This format provides a plausible perspective of how a young Sophie could have learned mathematics on her own—both fascinated by numbers and eager to master tough subjects without a teacher's guidance. Her passion for mathematics is integrated into her personal life as an escape from societal outrage. Sophie's Diary is suitable for a variety of readers—both young and old, mathematicians and novices—who will be inspired and enlightened on a field of study made easy, as told through the intellectual and personal struggles of an exceptional young woman.
Book Synopsis A Mathematical Odyssey by : Steven G. Krantz
Download or read book A Mathematical Odyssey written by Steven G. Krantz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics is a poem. It is a lucid, sensual, precise exposition of beautiful ideas directed to specific goals. It is worthwhile to have as broad a cross-section of mankind as possible be conversant with what goes on in mathematics. Just as everyone knows that the Internet is a powerful and important tool for communication, so everyone should know that the Poincaré conjecture gives us important information about the shape of our universe. Just as every responsible citizen realizes that the mass-production automobile was pioneered by Henry Ford, so everyone should know that the P/NP problem has implications for security and data manipulation that will affect everyone. This book endeavors to tell the story of the modern impact of mathematics, of its trials and triumphs and insights, in language that can be appreciated by a broad audience. It endeavors to show what mathematics means for our lives, how it impacts all of us, and what new thoughts it should cause us to entertain. It introduces new vistas of mathematical ideas and shares the excitement of new ideas freshly minted. It discusses the significance and impact of these ideas, and gives them meaning that will travel well and cause people to reconsider their place in the universe. Mathematics is one of mankind's oldest disciplines. Along with philosophy, it has shaped the very modus of human thought. And it continues to do so. To be unaware of modern mathematics is to miss out on a large slice of life. It is to be left out of essential modern developments. We want to address this point, and do something about it. This is a book to make mathematics exciting for people of all interests and all walks of life. Mathematics is exhilarating, it is ennobling, it is uplifting, and it is fascinating. We want to show people this part of our world, and to get them to travel new paths.
Book Synopsis Math through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others Expanded Second Edition by : William P. Berlinghoff
Download or read book Math through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others Expanded Second Edition written by William P. Berlinghoff and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did math come from? Who thought up all those algebra symbols, and why? What is the story behind π π? … negative numbers? … the metric system? … quadratic equations? … sine and cosine? … logs? The 30 independent historical sketches in Math through the Ages answer these questions and many others in an informal, easygoing style that is accessible to teachers, students, and anyone who is curious about the history of mathematical ideas. Each sketch includes Questions and Projects to help you learn more about its topic and to see how the main ideas fit into the bigger picture of history. The 30 short stories are preceded by a 58-page bird's-eye overview of the entire panorama of mathematical history, a whirlwind tour of the most important people, events, and trends that shaped the mathematics we know today. “What to Read Next” and reading suggestions after each sketch provide starting points for readers who want to learn more. This book is ideal for a broad spectrum of audiences, including students in history of mathematics courses at the late high school or early college level, pre-service and in-service teachers, and anyone who just wants to know a little more about the origins of mathematics.
Book Synopsis Who Gave You the Epsilon? by : Marlow Anderson
Download or read book Who Gave You the Epsilon? written by Marlow Anderson and published by MAA. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows on from Sherlock Holmes in Babylon to take the history of mathematics through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Book Synopsis The Genius of Euler: Reflections on his Life and Work by : William Dunham
Download or read book The Genius of Euler: Reflections on his Life and Work written by William Dunham and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Expeditions in Mathematics by : Tatiana Shubin
Download or read book Expeditions in Mathematics written by Tatiana Shubin and published by MAA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the second volume based on lectures for pre-college students given by prominent mathematicians in the Bay Area Mathematical Adventures (BAMA). This book reflects the flavor of the BAMA lectures and the excitement they have generated among the high school and middle school students in the Silicon Valley. The topics cover a wide range of mathematical subjects each treated by a leading proponent of the subject at levels designed to challenge and attract students whose mathematical interests are just beginning. In addition, the treatments given here will intrigue and enchant a more mature mathematician. It is hoped that the publication of these lectures will expose students outside of the San Francisco Bay Area to interesting mathematical topics and treatments outside of their normal experience in the classroom. Mathematical educators are encouraged to offer the students in their own localities similar opportunities to come into contact with exciting adventures in mathematics.
Author :C. Edward Sandifer Publisher :The Mathematical Association of America ISBN 13 :0883855844 Total Pages :254 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (838 download)
Book Synopsis How Euler Did Even More by : C. Edward Sandifer
Download or read book How Euler Did Even More written by C. Edward Sandifer and published by The Mathematical Association of America. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandifer has been studying Euler for decades and is one of the world’s leading experts on his work. This volume is the second collection of Sandifer’s “How Euler Did It” columns. Each is a jewel of historical and mathematical exposition. The sum total of years of work and study of the most prolific mathematician of history, this volume will leave you marveling at Euler’s clever inventiveness and Sandifer’s wonderful ability to explicate and put it all in context.
Book Synopsis Proof and Other Dilemmas by : Bonnie Gold
Download or read book Proof and Other Dilemmas written by Bonnie Gold and published by MAA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen original essays exploring recent developments in the philosophy of mathematics, written in a way mathematicians will understand.
Book Synopsis The Early Mathematics of Leonhard Euler by : C. Edward Sandifer
Download or read book The Early Mathematics of Leonhard Euler written by C. Edward Sandifer and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early Mathematics of Leonhard Euler gives an article-by-article description of Leonhard Euler's early mathematical works; the 50 or so mathematical articles he wrote before he left St. Petersburg in 1741 to join the Academy of Frederick the Great in Berlin. These early pieces contain some of Euler's greatest work, the Konigsberg bridge problem, his solution to the Basel problem, and his first proof of the Euler-Fermat theorem. It also presents important results that we seldom realize are due to Euler; that mixed partial derivatives are (usually) equal, our f(x) f(x) notation, and the integrating factor in differential equations. The books shows how contributions in diverse fields are related, how number theory relates to series, which, in turn, relate to elliptic integrals and then to differential equations. There are dozens of such strands in this beautiful web of mathematics. At the same time, we see Euler grow in power and sophistication, from a young student when at 18 he published his first work on differential equations (a paper with a serious flaw) to the most celebrated mathematician and scientist of his time. It is a portrait of the world's most exciting mathematics between 1725 and 1741, rich in technical detail, woven with connections within Euler's work and with the work of other mathematicians in other times and places, laced with historical context.
Book Synopsis Beautiful Mathematics by : Martin Erickson
Download or read book Beautiful Mathematics written by Martin Erickson and published by MAA. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematical ideas with aesthetic appeal for any mathematically minded person.
Book Synopsis A Historian Looks Back by : Judith V. Grabiner
Download or read book A Historian Looks Back written by Judith V. Grabiner and published by MAA. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring collection of a historian's work on the history of mathematics.
Book Synopsis Lobachevski Illuminated by : Seth Braver
Download or read book Lobachevski Illuminated written by Seth Braver and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the Mathematical Association of America's Beckenbach Book Prize in 2015! Lobachevski Illuminated provides an historical introduction to non-Euclidean geometry. Within its pages, readers will be guided step-by-step through a new translation of Lobachevski's groundbreaking book, The Theory of Parallels. Extensive commentary situates Lobachevski's work in its mathematical, historical, and philosophical context, thus granting readers a vision of the mysterious and beautiful world of non-Euclidean geometry as seen through the eyes of one of its discoverers. Although Lobachevski's 170-year-old text is challenging to read on its own, Seth Braver's carefully arranged “illuminations” render this classic accessible to any modern reader (student, professional, or layman) undaunted by high school mathematics.
Book Synopsis The Edge of the Universe by : Deanna Haunsperger
Download or read book The Edge of the Universe written by Deanna Haunsperger and published by MAA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exquisite expositions of mathematics taken from the first ten years of the Math Horizons magazine.
Book Synopsis Six Sources of Collapse by : Charles R. Hadlock
Download or read book Six Sources of Collapse written by Charles R. Hadlock and published by MAA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible investigation into the mathematics behind collapse processes, ranging from crashing financial markets to extreme weather to ecological disasters.
