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  • Introducing Mathematics

    A Graphic Guide

    by Jerry Ravetz, Ziauddin Sardar ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    What is mathematics, and why is it such a mystery to so many people?Mathematics is the greatest creation of human intelligence. It affects us all. We depend on it in our daily lives, and yet many of the tools of mathematics, such as geometry, algebra and trigonometry, are descended from ancient or non-Western civilizations.Introducing Mathematics traces the story of mathematics from the ancient ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Complete Mathematics

    A step by step introduction to the mathematical essentials

    by Trevor Johnson, Hugh Neill ...
    Are you looking for a clear, accessible guide to mathematics that can help you brush up your skills and rediscover the key concepts and techniques? Complete Mathematics provides an invaluable, step-by-step introduction to the subject. Packed full of worked examples and useful exercises, it will guide you through the essentials quickly and easily, giving you the knowledge you need to gain maths ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Mathematical Tables: Table Of Derivatives: (List Of Differentiation Identities) (Mobi Study Guides)

    by MobileReference ...
    Students and research workers in mathematics, physics, engineering and other sciences will find this compilation invaluable. All the information included is practical, rarely used results are excluded. Great care has been taken to present all results concisely and clearly. Excellent to keep as a handy reference! If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, this book helps you: Brush ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

    Edited by Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader ...
    This is a one-of-a-kind reference for anyone with a serious interest in mathematics. Edited by Timothy Gowers, a recipient of the Fields Medal, it presents nearly two hundred entries, written especially for this book by some of the world's leading mathematicians, that introduce basic mathematical tools and vocabulary; trace the development of modern mathematics; explain essential terms and ... Read more

    $124.99 CAD

  • Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe

    by Roger Penrose ...
    Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman

    Mathematics at the Limits of Computation

    by William J. Cook ...
    The story of one of the greatest unsolved problems in mathematicsWhat is the shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin? It sounds simple enough, yet the traveling salesman problem is one of the most intensely studied puzzles in applied mathematics—and it has defied solution to this day. In this book, William ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Schaum's Outline of Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables, 4th Edition

    2,400 Formulas + Tables

    by Seymour Lipschutz, Murray R. Spiegel, John Liu ...
    Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately, there's Schaum's.More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Closing the Gap

    The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers

    by Vicky Neale ...
    In 2013, a little known mathematician in his late 50s stunned the mathematical community with a breakthrough on an age-old problem about prime numbers. Since then, there has been further dramatic progress on the problem, thanks to the efforts of a large-scale online collaborative effort of a type that would have been unthinkable in mathematics a couple of decades ago, and the insight and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Calculus Story

    A Mathematical Adventure

    by David Acheson ...
    Calculus is the key to much of modern science and engineering. It is the mathematical method for the analysis of things that change, and since in the natural world we are surrounded by change, the development of calculus was a huge breakthrough in the history of mathematics. But it is also something of a mathematical adventure, largely because of the way infinity enters at virtually every twist ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Representations of Lie Algebras

    An Introduction Through gln

    by Anthony Henderson ...
    Series Book 22 - Australian Mathematical Society Lecture Series
    This bold and refreshing approach to Lie algebras assumes only modest prerequisites (linear algebra up to the Jordan canonical form and a basic familiarity with groups and rings), yet it reaches a major result in representation theory: the highest-weight classification of irreducible modules of the general linear Lie algebra. The author's exposition is focused on this goal rather than aiming at ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Computation and Modelling in Insurance and Finance

    by Erik Bølviken ...
    Series series International Series on Actuarial Science
    Focusing on what actuaries need in practice, this introductory account provides readers with essential tools for handling complex problems and explains how simulation models can be created, used and re-used (with modifications) in related situations. The book begins by outlining the basic tools of modelling and simulation, including a discussion of the Monte Carlo method and its use. Part II deals ... Read more

    $159.99 CAD

  • Computability Theory

    An Introduction to Recursion Theory, Students Solutions Manual (e-only)

    by Herbert B. Enderton ...
    Computability Theory: An Introduction to Recursion Theory, provides a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to contemporary computability theory, techniques, and results. The basic concepts and techniques of computability theory are placed in their historical, philosophical and logical context. This presentation is characterized by an unusual breadth of coverage and the inclusion ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD