Mathematics

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The Essential Book of Kakuro 2 - Paperback

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by Gareth Moore (Author)Kakuro is a Japanese game of logic -- and the next big puzzle craze to sweep the world since Su Doku. Like Su Doku, Kakuro is played on grids of varying sizes, using the numbers 1 to 9 and, like Su Doku, Kakuro is absorbing, addictive and utterly compelling. Combining numbers and logic, and with the interconnectedness of a crossword puzzle, this is a game for everyone -- all you need is the ability to add two numbers together. Like the first volume in this series, The ...

Newton's Gift: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World - Paperback

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by David Berlinski (Author)Sir Isaac Newton, creator of the first and perhaps most important scientific theory, is a giant of the scientific era. Despite this, he has remained inaccessible to most modern readers, indisputably great but undeniably remote. In this witty, engaging, and often moving examination of Newton's life, David Berlinski recovers the man behind the mathematical breakthroughs. The story carries the reader from Newton's unremarkable childhood to his awkward undergraduate day...

Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You - Paperback

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by Gerd Gigerenzer (Author), Gerd Gigerenzer (Other)At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baffling array of percentages and probabilities as we try to navigate in a world dominated by statistics. Cognitive scientist Gerd Gigerenzer says that because we haven't learned statistical th...

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by Mario Livio (Author)Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history's greatest mathematicians to ask how--if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind--it can so perfectly explain the physical world.Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? investigates why mathematics is as powerful as it is. From ancient time...

Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry - Paperback

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by Mario Livio (Author)What do Bach's compositions, Rubik's Cube, the way we choose our mates, and the physics of subatomic particles have in common? All are governed by the laws of symmetry, which elegantly unify scientific and artistic principles. Yet the mathematical languag Number of Pages: 368 Dimensions: 0.66 x 9.22 x 6.24 IN Publication Date: September 01, 2006

Groups, Representations and Physics - Paperback

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by H. F. Jones (Author)Illustrating the fascinating interplay between physics and mathematics, Groups, Representations and Physics, Second Edition provides a solid foundation in the theory of groups, particularly group representations. For this new, fully revised edition, the author has enhanced the book's usefulness and widened its appeal by adding a chapter on the Cartan-Dynkin treatment of Lie algebras. This treatment, a generalization of the method of raising and lowering operators used f...

Geometry, Topology and Physics - Paperback

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by Mikio Nakahara (Author)Differential geometry and topology have become essential tools for many theoretical physicists. In particular, they are indispensable in theoretical studies of condensed matter physics, gravity, and particle physics. Geometry, Topology and Physics, Second Edition introduces the ideas and techniques of differential geometry and topology at a level suitable for postgraduate students and researchers in these fields. The second edition of this popular and established tex...

Introduction To Percolation Theory: Second Edition - Paperback

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by Dietrich Stauffer (Author), Ammon Aharony (Author)This work dealing with percolation theory clustering, criticallity, diffusion, fractals and phase transitions takes a broad approach to the subject, covering basic theory and also specialized fields like disordered systems and renormalization groups. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.41 x 9.32 x 6.25 IN Publication Date: July 18, 1994

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by Alain Badiou (Author)The political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us really understand what numbers are? Without such an understanding, how can we challenge the regime of number? In Number and Numbers Alain Badiou offers an philosophically penetrating account with a powerful political subtext of the attempts that have been made over the last century to define the special status of number. Badiou argues that num...

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by Alain Badiou (Author)Back JacketThe political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us really understand what numbers are? Without such an understanding, how can we challenge the regime of number? In Number and Numbers Alain Badiou offers an philosophically penetrating account with a powerful political subtext of the attempts that have been made over the last century to define the special status of number. Badiou argu...

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by Ernst Von Glasersfeld (Author)First Published in 1995. In the past decade or two, the most important theoretical perspective to emerge in mathematics education has been that of constructivism. This burst onto the international scene at the controversial Eleventh International Conference on the Psychology of Mathematics Education in Montreal in the summer of 1987. No one there will forget von Glasersfeld's authoritative plenary presentation on radical con-structivism, and his replies to cri...

How to Pass Numerical Reasoning Tests: Over 550 Practice Questions - Paperback

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by Heidi Smith (Author)Containing the largest bank of test questions on the market, How to Pass Numerical Reasoning Tests provides advice, practice and exercises to help you prepare for the rigorous tests used by employers, helping you to build up speed, accuracy and confidence. An overview of the basics is followed by a step-by-step guide to numerical tests, covering: - Fractions and decimals- Rates- Percentages- Ratios and proportions- Data interpretation Also containing practice on mathema...

Learning Statistics Through Playing Cards - Paperback

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by Thomas R. Knapp (Author)A one-of-a-kind volume, Learning Statistics Through Playing Cards uniquely utilizes a simple deck of playing cards to explain the important concepts in statistics. Covering many of the topics included in introductory college statistics courses, author Thomas R. Knapp escorts the student through populations and variables, parameters, percentages, probability and sampling, sampling distribution, estimation, hypothesis testing, and two-by-two tables. Each chapter ends ...

Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions - Paperback

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by Leona S. Aiken (Author), Stephen G. West (Joint Author), Raymond R. Reno (Contribution by)This successful book, now available in paperback, provides academics and researchers with a clear set of prescriptions for estimating, testing and probing interactions in regression models. Including the latest research in the area, such as Fuller′s work on the corrected/constrained estimator, the book is appropriate for anyone who uses multiple regression to estimate models, or for those enrolled in ...

Game Theory Topics: Incomplete Information, Repeated Games and N-Player Games - Paperback

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by Evelyn C. Fink (Author), Brian D. Humes (Author), Scott Gates (Author)Game theory, particularly the use of repeated games, N-person games, and incomplete information games have been popular research techniques in political science, sociology and management, but difficult for new social researchers to use until now. This book aims makes these topics accessible to all social scientists. Using a common social science game, Chicken, to illustrate the concepts, the book introduces readers to: ...

Making Sense of Factor Analysis: The Use of Factor Analysis for Instrument Development in Health Care Research - Paperback

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by Marjorie A. Pett (Author), Nancy R. Lackey (Author), John J. Sullivan (Author) Making Sense of Factor Analysis: The Use of Factor Analysis for Instrument Development in Health Care Research presents a straightforward explanation of the complex statistical procedures involved in factor analysis. Authors Marjorie A. Pett, Nancy M. Lackey, and John J. Sullivan provide a step-by-step approach to analyzing data using statistical computer packages like SPSS and SAS. Emphasizing the interrelation...

Applied Logistic Regression Analysis - Paperback

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by Scott William Menard (Author)The focus in this Second Edition is again on logistic regression models for individual level data, but aggregate or grouped data are also considered. The book includes detailed discussions of goodness of fit, indices of predictive efficiency, and standardized logistic regression coefficients, and examples using SAS and SPSS are included. More detailed consideration of grouped as opposed to case-wise data throughout the book Updated discussion of the properti...

Correlation: Parametric and Nonparametric Measures - Paperback

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by Peter Y. Chen (Author), Paula M. Popovich (Author)Correlations, in general, and the Pearson product-moment correlation in particular, can be used for many research purposes, ranging from describing a relationship between two variables as a descriptive statistic to examining a relationship between two variables in a population as an inferential statistic, or to gauge the strength of an effect, or to conduct a meta-analytic study. How can correlation be more effectively used so that one does...

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by Michael Smithson (Author)Smithson first introduces the basis of the confidence interval framework and then provides the criteria for "best" confidence intervals, along with the trade-offs between confidence and precision. Next, using a reader-friendly style with lots of worked out examples from various disciplines, he covers such pertinent topics as: the transformation principle whereby a confidence interval for a parameter may be used to construct an interval for any monotonic transformat...

Interaction Effects in Multiple Regression - Paperback

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by James Jaccard (Author), Robert Turrisi (Author)Interaction Effects in Multiple Regression has provided students and researchers with a readable and practical introduction to conducting analyses of interaction effects in the context of multiple regression. The new addition will expand the coverage on the analysis of three way interactions in multiple regression analysis.Learn more about "The Little Green Book" - QASS Series! Click Here Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.22 x 8.46 x 5.6 IN I...

Logistic Regression Models for Ordinal Response Variables - Paperback

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by Ann A. O'Connell (Author)Logistic Regression Models for Ordinal Response Variables provides applied researchers in the social, educational, and behavioral sciences with an accessible and comprehensive coverage of analyses for ordinal outcomes. The content builds on a review of logistic regression, and extends to details of the cumulative (proportional) odds, continuation ratio, and adjacent category models for ordinal data. Description and examples of partial proportional odds models are a...

Essentials of Inferential Statistics - Paperback

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by Malcolm O. Asadoorian (Author), Demetri Kantarelis (Author)This fifth edition is appropriate for a one semester general course in Applied Statistics or as a reference book for practicing researchers in a wide variety of disciplines, including medicine, health and human services, natural and social sciences, law, and engineering.Author BiographyMalcolm O. Asadoorian III, Ph.D, is Associate Professor of Economics at Lynn University and a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of T...

Multiple Regression: A Primer - Paperback

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by Paul D. Allison (Author)Multiple regression is at the heart of social science data analysis, because it deals with explanations and correlations. This book is a complete introduction to this statistical method. This textbook is designed for the first social statistics course a student takes and, unlike other titles aimed at a higher level, has been specifically written with the undergraduate student in mind. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.46 x 9.08 x 6.2 IN Publication Date: January ...

Ti-89 Graphing Calculator for Dummies - Paperback

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by C. C. Edwards (Author)Do you own a TI-89, TI-89 Titanium, TI-92 Plus, or a Voyage 200 graphing calculator? If you do, or if you need to get one for school or your job, then you need to know how it works and how to make the most of its functions. TI-89 For Dummies is the plain-English nuts-and-bolts guide that gets you up and running on all the things your TI-89 can do, quickly and easily. This hands-on reference guides you step by step through various tasks and even shows you how to add ap...

A Gateway to Modern Geometry: The Poincare Half-Plane: The Poincare Half-Plane - Paperback

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by Saul Stahl (Author)Stahl's Second Edition continues to provide students with the elementary and constructive development of modern geometry that brings them closer to current geometric research. At the same time, repeated use is made of high school geometry, algebra, trigonometry, and calculus, thus reinforcing the students' understanding of these disciplines as well as enhancing their perception of mathematics as a unified endeavor. This distinct approach makes these advanced geometry pri...

TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator for Dummies - Paperback

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by C. C. Edwards (Author)Would you order a multi-course gourmet buffet and just eat salad? If you have a TI-83 Plus graphing calculator, you have a veritable feast of features and functions at your fingertips, but chances are you don't take full advantage of them. This friendly guide will help you explore your TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator and use it for all it's worth, and that's a lot. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions plus screen shots, TI-83 Plus Graphing Calculator For Dumm...

Mathematicall Praeface to the Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara - Paperback

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by John Dee (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.25 x 11.08 x 8.3 IN P...

Theoretic Arithmetic of the Pythagoreans - Paperback

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by Thomas Taylor (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 292 Dimensions: 0.67 x 11 x 8.22 I...

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth - Paperback

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by Paul Hoffman (Author)Based on a National Magazine Award-winning article, this masterful biography of Hungarian-born Paul Erdos is both a vivid portrait of an eccentric genius and a layman's guide to some of this century's most startling mathematical discoveries.Author BiographyPaul Hoffman was president of Encyclopedia Britannica and editor-in-chief of Discover, and is the author of The Man Who Loved Only Numbers and The Wings of Madness. He is the winner of the first National Magazine Awa...

The Math Teacher's Book of Lists - Paperback

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by Judith A. Muschla (Author), Gary R. Muschla (Author)This is the second edition of the bestselling resource for mathematics teachers. This time-saving reference provides over 300 useful lists for developing instructional materials and planning lessons for middle school and secondary students. Some of the lists supply teacher background; others are to copy for student use, and many offer new twists to traditional classroom topics. For quick access and easy use, the lists are numbered consecu...

Speed Math for Kids: The Fast, Fun Way to Do Basic Calculations - Paperback

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by Bill Handley (Author)Learn how to easily do quick mental math calculations Speed Math for Kids is your guide to becoming a math genius--even if you have struggled with math in the past. Believe it or not, you have the ability to perform lightning quick calculations that will astonish your friends, family, and teachers. You'll be able to master your multiplication tables in minutes, and learn basic number facts while doing it. While the other kids in class are still writing down the problem...

Automata and Algebras in Categories - Hardcover

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by Jirí Adámek (Author), Vera Trnková (Author)Monograph( based very largely upon results original to the Czechoslovakian authors) presents an abstract account of the theory of automata for sophisticated readers presumed to be already conversant in the language of category theory. The seven chapters are punctuated at frequent intervals by exampl Number of Pages: 474 Dimensions: 1.06 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: April 01, 2002