Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019 A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost mathematicians. This is the captivating story of mathematics' greatest ever idea: calculus. Without it, there would be no computers, no microwave ovens, no GPS, and no space travel. But before it gave modern man almost infinite powers, calculus was behind centuries of controversy, competition, and even death. Taking us on a thrilling journey thro...
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019-06-06 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur > Mathematik 8,99 €
MATH MAGIC revised edition is for all of us who need and want to improve our understanding of math. Flansburg makes math what you may never have imagined it to be: easy and fun. Scott Flansburg’s heartfelt belief is that there are no “mathematical illiterates,” just people who have not learned how to make math work for them. But millions of otherwise successful adults are afraid to balance their checkbooks and don’t know how to figure interest on savings or credit. Millions of students d...
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015-06-16 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur > Mathematik 7,49 €
“Delightful . . . easily digestible chapters include plenty of helpful examples and illustrations. You'll never forget the Pythagorean theorem again!”—Scientific American Many people take math in high school and promptly forget much of it. But math plays a part in all of our lives all of the time, whether we know it or not. In The Joy of x, Steven Strogatz expands on his hit New York Times series to explain the big ideas of math gently and clearly, with wit, insight, and brilliant illustra...
Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-10-02 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur > Mathematik 6,99 €
„In 29 Tagen werde ich endlich 18!“, freut sich Fritz. „Was für ein Tag ist das eigentlich?“, will er wissen, hat aber keinen Kalender zur Hand. Herrn Peters interessiert dagegen mehr, ob sich die übrigen 460 Euro überhaupt gerecht auf die 15 Teilnehmer der Klassenfahrt verteilen lassen, will aber deswegen nicht extra einen Taschenrechner suchen. Also wird mühsam nachgezählt und nachgerechnet und – wie sollte es anders sein – sich verzählt und verrechnet. Wer kennt sie nicht, d...
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011-02-25 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur > Mathematik 16,99 €
In this e-book, a class of solvable quintics (polynomials of degree 5) is presented which, by specific modifications, are derived from quintics with 3rd roots. The latter ones represent one of the solvable classes of polynomials of degree 5 which are presented in the book "Quintics with Symmetries" (available as paperback version). In that book, resolvents for quintics are described which have a symmetric location of zeroes on a circle in the field of complex numbers. The idea is that th...
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022-01-24 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur > Mathematik 3,49 €