Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Coursebooks | 24 June 2007
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Math Wonders to Inspire Teachers and Students
This book offers a plethora of ideas to enrich your instruction and helps you to explore the intrinsic beauty of math.
Through dozens of examples from arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and probability, Alfred S. Posamentier reveals the amazing symmetries, patterns, processes, paradoxes, and surprises that await students and teachers who look beyond the rote to discover wonders that have fascinated generations of great thinkers.
The author presents examples to entice students (and teachers) to study mathematics, to make mathematics a popular subject, not one to dread or avoid.
A History of Mathematics From Mesopotamia to Modernity
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Coursebooks | 14 June 2007
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A History of Mathematics From Mesopotamia to Modernity
Containing more than 100 illustrations and figures, this text, aimed at advanced undergraduates and postgraduates, addresses the methods and challenges associated with studying the history of mathematics.
The reader is introduced to the leading figures in the history of mathematics (including Archimedes, Ptolemy, Qin Jiushao, al-Kashi, al-Khwarizmi, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Helmholtz, Hilbert, Alan Turing, and Andrew Wiles) and their fields.
An extensive bibliography with cross-references to key texts will provide invaluable resource to students and exercises (with solutions) will stretch the more advanced reader.
The Language of Mathematics
Making the Invisible Visible
This book tries to convey the essence of mathematics, both its historical development and its current breadth.
It is not a 'how to' book; it is an 'about' book, which sets out to describe mathematics as a rich and living part of humankind's culture.
It is intended for the general reader, and does not assume any mathematical knowledge or ability.
