Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

How does mathematics enable us to send pictures from space back to Earth? Where does the bell-shaped curve come from? Why do you need only 23 people in a room for a 50/50 chance of two of them sharing the same birthday? In Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, and Other Mathematical Explorations, Keith Ball highlights how ideas, mostly from pure math, can answer these questions and many more. Drawing on areas of mathematics from probability theory, number theory, and geometry, he explores a wide range of concepts, some more light-hearted, others central to the development of the field and used daily by mathematicians, physicists, and engineers. Each of the book's ten chapters begins by outlining key concepts and goes on to discuss, with the minimum of technical detail, the principles that underlie them. Each includes puzzles and problems of varying difficulty. While the chapters are self-contained, they also reveal the links between seemingly unrelated topics. For example, the problem of how to design codes for satellite communication gives rise to the same idea of uncertainty as the problem of screening blood samples for disease. Accessible to anyone familiar with basic calculus, this book is a treasure trove of ideas that will entertain, amuse, and bemuse students, teachers, and math lovers of all ages.

Mathematics --- Mathematics - Popular works

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Mathematics --- Mathematical recreations --- Mathematical recreations. --- Mathematics - Popular works

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Mathematical ideas have an aesthetic appeal that can be appreciated by anyone who has the time and dedication to investigate. Mathematical topics are presented in the categories of words, images, formulas, theorems, proofs, solutions and unsolved problems. Readers will discover exciting mathematics topics from complex numbers to arithmetic progressions, from Alcuin's sequence to the zeta function, and from hypercubes to infinity squared. Who should read this book? There is something new for any mathematically minded person. High school and college students will find motivation for their mathematical studies. Professional mathematicians will find fresh examples of mathematical beauty to pass along to others. Within each chapter, the topics require progressively more prerequisite knowledge. An appendix gives background definitions and theorems, while another gives challenging exercises (with solutions).

Mathematics. --- Math --- Science --- Mathematics --- Mathematics - Miscellanea --- Mathematics - Popular works

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Mathematics --- Popular works --- Mathématiques --- Mathematics - Popular works --- Histoire des mathematiques --- Mathematiques --- 20e siecle --- Survey

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This approachable text studies discrete objects and the relationships that bind them. It helps students understand and apply the power of discrete math to digital computer systems and other modern applications. It provides excellent preparation for courses in linear algebra, number theory, and modern/abstract algebra and for computer science courses in data structures, algorithms, programming languages, compilers, databases, and computation.* Covers all recommended topics in a self-contained, comprehensive, and understandable format for students and new professionals * Emphasizes pr

Mathematics -- Popular works. --- Mathematics. --- Science. --- Teaching teams. --- Mathematics - General --- Mathematics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Math --- Science