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An accessible guide to interrogating the many statistics we are bombarded by every day.

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From ancient Babylon to the last great unsolved problems, Ian Stewart brings us his definitive history of mathematics. In his famous straightforward style, Professor Stewart explains each major development - from the first number systems to chaos theory - and considers how each affected society and changed everyday life forever.

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The weird and wonderful quest for unfathomably large numbers

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How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list Can you predict Her Majesty's Christmas Message Full of diagrams, sketches and graphs, equations, Markov chains and matrices, this book intends to brighten up the bleak midwinters with lots of mathematical marvels.

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"The book is a concise, rigorous, and self-contained survey of undergraduate mathematics that covers the main results of ten areas in the standard curriculum at that level"--

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Covering all the basics including fractions, equations, primes, squares and square roots, geometry and fractals, Dr Richard Elwes will lead you gently towards a greater understanding of this fascinating subject. Even apparently daunting concepts are explained simply, with the assistance of useful diagrams, and with a refreshing lack of jargon.

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Maths underpins nearly everything we do, but few of us know that it is often a matter of life and death.

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"This book introduces readers to the narrative structure of mathematical proofs and why mathematicians communicate that way, drawing examples from classic literature and employing metaphors and imagery"--

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How anyone can become a data ninja

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"Enigmes mathematiques corrigees du lycee a Normale Sup'--published by Ellipses-- Copyright 2014, Edition Marketing S.A."-- title page verso.

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Quanta Magazine's stories of mathematical explorations show that inspiration strikes willy-nilly, revealing surprising solutions and exciting discoveries.

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"Introducing complex math concepts through the medium of seemingly unsolvable games"--

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How many different combinations of ice cream sundaes can be made Readers get the scoop along with Winnie the lunch lady, her cat Marshmallow, and some curious kids in this delicious tale. Full-color illustrations.

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Can you multiply 5132437201 by 452736502785 in 70 seconds without reaching for your calaulator Well you could if you used the techniques in this revolutionary book for high-speed multiplication, division, addition, subtraction and square root.

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"A mind-bending jaunt ... that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts" (Publishers Weekly)

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A guide to mentally calculating maths. It reveals the secrets of easy mental arithmetic, and the secrets to memorisation and other feats of mind. It includes puzzles, sudoku and games of mental stimulation.

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"This book presents a modern, category-theory-based approach to topology to supplement the more traditional algebraic topology graduate course"--

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Dazzling popular maths for the curious reader from one of Britain's, and the world's, cleverest teenagers

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Edge, the influential online group, recently asked high-powered thinkers to discuss the question that gives this book its title. More than 100 contributors have responded with some of the most insightful, humbling, fascinating confessions and anecdotes ("San Francisco Chronicle").

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John Mather's seminal works in Hamiltonian dynamics represent some of the most important contributions to our understanding of the complex balance between stable and unstable motions in classical mechanics. His novel approach--known as Aubry-Mather theory--singles out the existence of special orbits and invariant measures of the system, which posse

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Introduces a comprehensive methodology for adaptive control design of parabolic partial differential equations with unknown functional parameters. This book emphasizes stabilization by boundary control and using boundary sensing for unstable PDE systems with an infinite relative degree.