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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-832-1
EAN 9781785788321
Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modelling of human psychology and behaviour. Only much later did he realise that Asimov's 'psychohistory' had a real-world equivalent: game theory. Originating in the study of probabilistic gambling games that depend on a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1997-4
EAN 9781474619974
Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious - 'X people develop cancer every year' - and sometimes less obvious - 'How smartphones destroyed a generation'. Statistics are an immensely powerful tool for understanding the world, but in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-199109-2
EAN 9780141991092
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 368 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-39885-2
EAN 9780241398852
A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAn exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world'A sparkling book, with an intoxicating mix of pen-portraits and grand historical narrative. Above all it fizzes with a dizzying mix of deliciously vital ideas.A staggering achievement' Tim HarfordThe smartphones in our pockets ...
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Ieno, Elena N.; Saveliev, Anatoly A.; Zuur, Alain F
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-807-6
EAN 9781788168076
Many people think mathematics is useless. They're wrong. In the UK, the 2.8 million people employed in mathematical science occupations contributed GBP208 billion to the economy in a single year -- that's 10 per cent of the workforce contributing 16 per cent of the economy.What's the Use? asks why there is such a vast gulf ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78747-540-3
EAN 9781787475403
Maths is the story of the world around us, and the wisdom it gives us can be the difference between success and disaster. We are all doing maths all the time, from the way we communicate with each other to the way we travel, from how we work to how we relax. Many of us ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198648-7
EAN 9780141986487
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical concepts: creations ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 180 páginas
PVP: 116,95 €
ISBN 978-981-12-3663-1
EAN 9789811236631
Two models for the spread and control of a virus are detailed in this book: The Lung/Respiratory System Model (LSM) and the SVIR (Susceptible-Vaccinated-Infected-Recovered) Model.The LSM gives the spatiotemporal distribution of four viral-related proteins: virus population density along the lung air passage, host cell primary infection protein (viral genetic material (VGM)) concentration, host cell secondary ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98969-2
EAN 9780241989692
How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy?From earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this affects the planet itself - in Numbers Don't Lie, Professor Vaclav Smil takes us on a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-041-4
EAN 9781788160414
From imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining things that seem impossible at first glance. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng draws on the insights of higher-dimensional mathematics to reveal a transformative new way of talking about the patriarchy, mansplaining and sexism: a way that empowers all of us to ...
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Banerjee, Agnijo; Darling, David
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-805-6
EAN 9781786078056
Maths is everywhere, in everything. It's in the finest margins of modern sport. It's in the electrical pulses of our hearts and the flight of every bird.It is our key to secret messages, lost languages and perhaps even the shape of the universe of itself. David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee reveal the mathematics at the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-259-3
EAN 9781788162593
Some people fear and mistrust numbers. Others want to use them for everything. After a long career as a statistician, Paul Goodwin has learned the hard way that the ones who want to use them for everything are a very good reason for the rest of us to fear and mistrust them.Something Doesn't Add Up ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-020-9
EAN 9781788160209
We live in a world that's more interconnected than ever before. Our lives are shaped by outbreaks - of disease, of misinformation, even of violence - that appear, spread and fade away with bewildering speed.To understand them, we need to learn the hidden laws that govern them. From 'superspreaders' who might spark a pandemic or ...
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Searching for the fundamental laws of the universe, physicists have found themselves developing ambitious mathematical ideas. But without observation and experiment as their guide, are they now doing 'fairy-tale physics' as their detractors claim? In The Universe Speaks in Numbers, Graham Farmelo argues that today's greatest scientific minds are working in a tradition that dates ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
ISBN 978-0-241-45441-1
EAN 9780241454411
'There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil' Bill GatesIs flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy?From earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-14-313458-9
EAN 9780143134589
We all know math is important: we live in the age of big data, our lives are increasingly governed by algorithms, and we're constantly faced with a barrage of statistics about everything from politics to our health. But what might be less obvious is how math factors into your daily life, and what memorizing all ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-1-63388-520-2
EAN 9781633885202
An entertaining history of mathematics as chronicled through fifty short biographies. Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were often as extraordinary as their mathematical achievements. This entertaining history of mathematics chronicles those achievements through fifty short biographies that bring these great thinkers ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20296-9
EAN 9780691202969
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements. The works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Arnold Schoenberg, Iannis Xenakis, and Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote music explicitly based on mathematical principles. Yet Eli Maor argues that it is music ...
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