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Calculus for Cranks
ISBN: PB: 9780300242799, Yale University Press, March 2021
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In mathematics, "cranks" are people who insist they understand something new about math even when the world tells them they are doing it wrong. This introduction to calculus is written with those cranks in mind, based on the foundational course that...
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£20,00
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Mathematics Lover's Companion Masterpieces for Everyone
ISBN: PB: 9780300255393, ISBN: HB: 9780300223002, Yale University Press, January 2021
296 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 106 black&white illus.
Twenty-three mathematical masterpieces for exploration and enlightenment. How can a shape have more than one dimension but fewer than two? What is the best way to elect public officials when more than two candidates are vying for the office? Is it p...
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£12,99
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£18,99
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Mathematics for Human Flourishing
ISBN: HB: 9780300237139, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 50 black&white illus.
For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity's most beautiful ideas. In this profound book, w...
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Group Actions in Ergodic Theory, Geometry, and Topology Selected Papers
ISBN: HB: 9780226568133, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
672 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm
Robert J. Zimmer is best known in mathematics for the highly influential conjectures and program that bear his name. "Group Actions in Ergodic Theory, Geometry, and Topology: Selected Papers" brings together some of the most significant writings by Z...
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£49,00
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Shape of a Life One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry
ISBN: HB: 9780300235906, Yale University Press, April 2019
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 49 black&white illus.
Harvard geometer and Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe. In this autobiography, Yau reflects on...
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£20,00
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Logic of Miracles Making Sense of Rare, Really Rare, and Impossibly Rare Events
ISBN: HB: 9780300224153, Yale University Press, April 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 23 black&white illus.
We live in a much more turbulent world than we like to think, but the science we use to analyze economic, financial, and statistical events mostly disregards the world's essentially chaotic nature. We need to get used to the idea that wildly improbab...
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£25,00
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Soccer Analytics Successful Coaching Through Match Analyses
ISBN: PB: 9781782550815, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, September 2017
344 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 199 colour illus.
Match analysis in soccer has become more and more important in recent years. Nowadays, no professional soccer club plays a single match without having analyzed their own and their opponents' matches to find the best possible match plan and maximize t...
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£14,95
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Everyday Mathematics for Parents What You Need to Know to Help Your Child Succeed
ISBN: PB: 9780226265483, University of Chicago Press, July 2017
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 67 halftones, 177 line drawings, 6 tables
The Everyday Mathematics (EM) program was developed by the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP) and is now used in more than 185,000 classrooms by almost three million students. Its research-based learning delivers the kinds of re...
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£10,50
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Evidence
ISBN: PB: 9780226466378, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables
Howard S. Becker is a master of his discipline. His reputation as a teacher, as well as a sociologist, is supported by his best-selling quartet of sociological guidebooks: "Writing for Social Scientists", "Tricks of the Trade", "Telling About Society...
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Inferences with Ignorance Logics of Questions
ISBN: PB: 9788024631813, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
100 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Inferences with Ignorance" focuses on two formal logic systems that employ the type of inferences in which questions are used in addition to statements. Not merely capturing questions as...
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