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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-08598-9
EAN 9780465085989
"An engaging tour of vital math for a modern world . A wonderfully accessible book." -Scientific American Most people are familiar with history's great equations: Newton's Law of Gravity, for instance, or Einstein's theory of relativity. But the way these mathematical breakthroughs have contributed to human progress is seldom appreciated. In In Pursuit of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 158 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27998-8
EAN 9780520279988
Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States? Are four million women really battered to death by their husbands or boyfriends each year? Is methamphetamine our number one drug problem today? Alarming statistics bombard our daily lives, appearing in the news, on the Web, seemingly everywhere. But all too often, ...
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ISBN 978-0-19-967598-2
EAN 9780199675982
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 20,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16016-0
EAN 9780691160160
Most popular books about science, and even about mathematics, tiptoe around equations as if they were something to be hidden from the reader's tender eyes. Dana Mackenzie starts from the opposite premise: He celebrates equations. No history of art would be complete without pictures. Why, then, should a history of mathematics--the universal language of science--keep ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-08999-4
EAN 9780465089994
"A fun, spunky, wise little book that would be helpful to both the consumers of the news and its purveyors." -Washington Post In this lively volume, mathematician John Allen Paulos employs his singular wit to guide us through an unlikely mathematical jungle-the pages of the daily newspaper. From the Senate and sex to celebrities and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-465-05074-1
EAN 9780465050741
A top mathematician's lifelong quest to find a theory for every number. What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-8090-3359-1
EAN 9780809033591
A hilarious and bold graphic adventure into the world of big dataStatistics help us create Internet technologies, develop medicines, win elections, invest in stocks, predict the weather, and much more. But the methods that produce important numbers remain beyond many of us. How do we determine the proper size of a sample? How, exactly, do ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-0-09-958423-0
EAN 9780099584230
How can sprinter Usain Bolt break his world record without expending any additional effort? Which demands a faster reaction time, tennis or baseball? What dates of birth give rise to the best professional athletes? Is it better to have the inside or outside lane during a race? And how can you improve your balance just ...
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Blastland, Michael; Spiegelhalter, David
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-620-7
EAN 9781846686207
This is a far from average book: the real story behind the statistics on risk, chance and choice. Meet Norm. He's 31, 5'9", just over 13 stone, and works a 39 hour week.He likes a drink, doesn't do enough exercise and occasionally treats himself to a bar of chocolate (milk). He's a pretty average kind ...
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ISBN 978-0-19-965198-6
EAN 9780199651986
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 30,60 €
ISBN 978-0-521-72876-8
EAN 9780521728768
Most works of art, whether illustrative, musical or literary, are created subject to a set of constraints. In many (but not all) cases, these constraints have a mathematical nature, for example, the geometric transformations governing the canons of J. S. Bach, the various projection systems used in classical painting, the catalog of symmetries found in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 20,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15821-1
EAN 9780691158211
Some probability problems are so difficult that they stump the smartest mathematicians. But even the hardest of these problems can often be solved with a computer and a Monte Carlo simulation, in which a random-number generator simulates a physical process, such as a million rolls of a pair of dice. This is what Digital Dice ...
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Although we seldom think of it, our lives are played out in a world of numbers. Such common activities as throwing baseballs, skipping rope, growing flowers, playing football, measuring savings accounts, and many others are inherently mathematical. So are more speculative problems that are simply fun to ponder in themselves--such as the best way to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4447-3744-8
EAN 9781444737448
This is the book that Daniel Tammet, bestselling author and mathematical savant, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes and everyday examples, Tammet allows us to share his unique insights and delight in the way numbers, fractions and equations underpin all our lives.Inspired ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-01481-1
EAN 9780465014811
From one of our most gifted and lyrical writers on mathematics, an exploration of the fascinating origins and critical legacy of Euclid's influential book The Elements, a cornerstone of modern science.Geometry defines the world around us, helping us make sense of everything from architecture to military science to fashion. And for over two thousand years, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15655-2
EAN 9780691156552
This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else--and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 377 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15080-2
EAN 9780691150802
Guesstimation 2.0 reveals the simple and effective techniques needed to estimate virtually anything--quickly--and illustrates them using an eclectic array of problems. A stimulating follow-up to Guesstimation, this is the must-have book for anyone preparing for a job interview in technology or finance, where more and more leading businesses test applicants using estimation questions just like ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15456-5
EAN 9780691154565
Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics--imagine where we'd be today if Einstein and Newton didn't have the math to back up their ideas. But how many people realize that physics can be used to produce many astonishing and strikingly elegant solutions in mathematics? Mark Levi shows how in this delightful book, treating readers ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15501-2
EAN 9780691155012
We all played tag when we were kids. What most of us don't realize is that this simple chase game is in fact an application of pursuit theory, and that the same principles of games like tag, dodgeball, and hide-and-seek are also at play in military strategy, high-seas chases by the Coast Guard, and even ...
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