Accessible and entertaining style
Insightful overview to appeal to lay-readers and maths-lovers alike
Includes entertaining illustrations, photos and drawings (some by famous cartoonists)
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This book presents the topology of smooth 4-manifolds in an intuitive self-contained way, developed over a number of years by Professor Akbulut. The text is aimed at graduate students and focuses on t ... Read more
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Relax: no one understands technical mathematics without lengthy training but we all have an intuitive grasp of the ideas behind the symbols. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the In ... Read more
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The world around us is saturated with numbers. They are a fundamental pillar of our modern society, and accepted and used with hardly a second thought. But how did this state of affairs come to be? In ... Read more
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Edited by Ian Ridpath, prolific astronomy author and broadcaster, with the help of more than 20 expert contributors
Contains over 4,300 entries on all aspects of astronomy
Worldwide coverage of ... Read more
This wide-ranging, jargon-free dictionary contains over 2,300 entries on all aspects of statistics, including terms used in computing, mathematics, and probability. It also includes biographical infor ... Read more
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A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity covers the evolution of mathematics through time and across the major Eastern and Western civilizations. It begins in Babylon, then describes th ... Read more
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A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity covers the evolution of mathematics through time and across the major Eastern and Western civilizations. It begins in Babylon, then describes th ... Read more
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This text is a mathematics-based, undergraduate text in the modern theory of dynamical systems geared for both mathematics majors intent on eventual research in the field as well as engineers and phys ... Read more
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This text is a mathematics-based, undergraduate text in the modern theory of dynamical systems geared for both mathematics majors intent on eventual research in the field as well as engineers and phys ... Read more
