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)
Dev ... 続きを読む
Category theory emerged in the 1940s in the work of Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane. It describes relationships between mathematical structures. Outside of pure mathematics, category theory is ... 続きを読む
Category theory emerged in the 1940s in the work of Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane. It describes relationships between mathematical structures. Outside of pure mathematics, category theory is ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
Foreword by Dara O Briain, comedian and presenter of TV shows such as School of Hard Sums, Dara O Briain's Science Club and Stargazing Live
Celebrates 50 years of the Institute of Mathematics and ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
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 ... 続きを読む
