Math Skills Maintenance Workbook: Course 3 by Glencoe / McGraw-Hill

The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On

The traditional Greeks stumbled on them, however it wasn't till the 19th century that irrational numbers have been effectively understood and carefully outlined, or even this present day now not all their mysteries were printed. within the Irrationals, the 1st well known and accomplished ebook at the topic, Julian Havil tells the tale of irrational numbers and the mathematicians who've tackled their demanding situations, from antiquity to the twenty-first century.

In mathematical circles. Quadrants I, II (MAA 2003)

For a few years, famed arithmetic historian and grasp instructor Howard Eves accrued tales and anecdotes approximately arithmetic and mathematicians, accumulating them jointly in six Mathematical Circles books. hundreds of thousands of academics of arithmetic have learn those tales and anecdotes for his or her personal entertainment and used them within the lecture room - so as to add leisure, to introduce a human point, to motivate the scholar, and to forge a few hyperlinks of cultural heritage.

Mathematics of Digital Images: Creation, Compression, Restoration, Recognition

This significant revision of the author's renowned publication nonetheless makes a speciality of foundations and proofs, yet now shows a shift clear of Topology to likelihood and knowledge concept (with Shannon's resource and channel encoding theorems) that are used all through. 3 important components for the electronic revolution are tackled (compression, recovery and recognition), setting up not just what's precise, yet why, to facilitate schooling and study.

Mathe ist doof !? Weshalb ganz vernünftige Menschen manchmal an Mathematik verzweifeln

Viele Menschen haben den Seufzer "Mathe ist doof! " schon ausgestoßen. Sind denn alle diese Leute dumm oder "mathematisch unbegabt"? Wie kaum ein anderes Fach spaltet Mathematik die Geister: Mathematik ist schön, ästhetisch, wunderbar logisch und überaus nützlich - sagen die einen. Die anderen empfinden Mathematik als eine dröge Quälerei mit abstrakten Symbolen und undurchsichtigen Formeln, die guy irgendwie in der Schule durchstehen muss - und dann vergessen kann.