Mathematics Books

Book SynopsisDoes the universe embody beautiful ideas?   Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this “beautiful question.” With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek’s groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in nature. This is the deep logic of the universe—and it is no accident that it is also at the heart of what we find aesthetically pleasing and inspiring.   Wilczek is hardly alone among great scientists in charting his course using beauty as his compass. As he reveals in A Beautiful Question, this has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras and the ancient belief in the music of the spheres to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and into the deep waters of twentieth-century physics. Wilczek brings us right to the edge of knowledge today, where the core insights of even the craziest quantum ideas apply principles we all understand. The equations for atoms and light are almost the same ones that govern musical instruments and sound; the subatomic particles that are responsible for most of our mass are determined by simple geometric symmetries.   Gorgeously illustrated, A Beautiful Question is a mind-shifting book that braids the age-old quest for beauty and the age-old quest for truth into a thrilling synthesis. It is a dazzling and important work from one of our best thinkers, whose humor and infectious sense of wonder animate every page. Yes: The world is a work of art, and its deepest truths are ones we already feel, as if they were somehow written in our souls.

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Book SynopsisFundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology provides an accessible introduction to the key concepts and principles of the Bayesian formalism. This volume introduces degrees of belief as a concept in epistemology and the rules for updating degrees of belief derived from Bayesian principles.Table of ContentsQuick Reference Preface I Our Subject 1: Beliefs and Degrees of Belief II The Bayesian Formalism 2: Probability Distributions 3: Conditional Credences 4: Updating by Conditionalization 5: Further Rational Constraints

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to game theory that offers not only theoretical tools but also the intuition and behavioral insights to apply these tools to real-world situations.This introductory text on game theory provides students with both the theoretical tools to analyze situations through the logic of game theory and the intuition and behavioral insights to apply these tools to real-world situations. It is unique among game theory texts in offering a clear, formal introduction to standard game theory while incorporating evidence from experimental data and introducing recent behavioral models. Students will not only learn about incentives, how to represent situations as games, and what agents “should” do in these situations, but they will also be presented with evidence that either confirms the theoretical assumptions or suggests a way in which the theory might be updated.Features:Each chapter begins with a motivating example that can

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPre-Testing Your Knowledge Unit I. Foundation Skills 1.Understanding Numbers 2.Basic Addition and Subtraction 3.Basic Multiplication and Division 4.Fractions and Mixed Numbers 5.Decimals and Percents 6.Ratio and Proportions Unit II. Advanced Math Skills 7.Systems of Measurements 8.The Metric System 9.Time and Temperature Unit III. Putting Your Knowledge to Practice 10.Understanding Prescriptions and Drug Calculations 11.Understanding Weight-Based Dosage Calculations 12.Basic Statistics in Healthcare Post-Testing Your Knowledge

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Basic Calculations 2. Rig Calculations 3. Pressure Control 4. Fluid Calculations 5. Cementing Calculations 6. Well Hydraulics 7. Drilling Calculations 8. Air and Gas Calculations

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Book SynopsisJ. MURDOCH was formerly Director of Management Science Studies at Cranfield University.J.A. BARNES was formerly Senior Lecturer in Management Science Studies at Cranfield University.

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Book SynopsisPHIL PICTON is a Reader in Engineering Control Systems at Nene College in Northampton. Prior to this he was a lecturer at the Open University where he contributed to distance learning courses on control engineering, electronics, mechatronics and artificial intelligence. His research interests include patten recognition, intelligent control and logic design.

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Book SynopsisSupport English language skills while improving subject content knowledge with a comprehensive three-level lower secondary programme specifically designed for non-native English speaking students studying Mathematics through the medium of English.Benefit from a flexible programme that ensures thorough preparation for the IGCSE and equivalent courses and is suitable as a stand-alone course. Engage interest with clear text, stimulating exercises and numerous worked examples.Reinforce the material taught within each lesson with the accompanying Workbook, providing extra practice and homework activities.Make the most of the series with the Teacher''s Guide containing answers to the Coursebook and Workbook exercises, guidance on delivering lessons and methodological support.Table of Contents : Unit 1 Integers : Unit 2 Factors and multiples : Unit 3 Fractions : Unit 4 Decimals : Unit 5 Power numbers : Unit 6 Other number systems : Unit 7 Approximation and estimation : Unit 8 Measures and measurement : Unit 9 Introduction to algebra : Unit 10 Introduction to geometry : Unit 11 Introduction to co-ordinate geometry

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Book SynopsisSupport English language skills while improving subject content knowledge with a comprehensive three-level lower secondary programme specifically designed for non-native English speaking students studying Mathematics through the medium of English.- Benefit from a flexible programme that ensures thorough preparation for the IGCSE and equivalent courses and is suitable as a stand-alone course. - Engage interest with clear text, stimulating exercises and numerous worked examples.Reinforce the material taught within each lesson with the accompanying Workbook, providing extra practice and homework activities.Make the most of the series with the Teacher''s Guide containing answers to the Coursebook and Workbook exercises, guidance on delivering lessons and methodological support.Table of Contents Unit 1: Measurement of plane figures Unit 2: Algebraic equations in 1 variable Unit 3: Ratio, proportion and percentage Unit 4: Applications of ratio, proportion and percentage Unit 5: Square roots and cube roots Unit 6: Real numbers Unit 7: Indices Unit 8: Algebraic multiplication and division Unit 9: Factorising quadratic expressions Unit 10: Pythagoras' theorem Unit 11: Parallel lines, triangles and polygons Unit 12: Patterns and sequences Unit 13: Presenting statistical data

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Book SynopsisSupport English language skills while improving subject content knowledge with a comprehensive three-level lower secondary programme specifically designed for non-native English speaking students studying Mathematics through the medium of English.- Benefit from a flexible programme that ensures thorough preparation for the IGCSE and equivalent courses and is suitable as a stand-alone course. - Engage interest with clear text, stimulating exercises and numerous worked examples.Reinforce the material taught within each lesson with the accompanying Workbook, providing extra practice and homework activities.Make the most of the series with the Teacher''s Guide containing answers to the Coursebook and Workbook exercises, guidance on delivering lessons and methodological support.Table of Contents Unit 1: Graphs of linear equations Unit 2: Linear inequalities Unit 3: Quadratic equations Unit 4: Algebraic fractions Unit 5: Simultaneous equations Unit 6: The geometry of circles Unit 7: Transformations Unit 8: Geometry in three dimensions Unit 9: Non-linear graphs Unit 10: An introduction to trigonometry Unit 11: An introduction to probability Unit 12: Statistical averages

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Book SynopsisA brand new workbook in a three-level lower secondary ESL Maths programme, designed to boost students' abilities and confidence in Maths through the medium of English. Attractively presented and thoroughly researched, this resource follows the units in the coursebook to give extra practice and homework activities at each stage.Table of Contents : Unit 1 – Integers : Unit 2 – Factors and Multiples : Unit 3 – Fractions : Unit 4 – Decimals : Unit 5 – Power Numbers : Unit 6 – Other Number Systems : Unit 7 – Approximation and Estimation : Unit 8 – Measures and Measurement : Unit 9 – An Introduction to Algebra : Unit 10 – An Introduction to Geometry : Unit 11 – An Introduction to Co-ordinate Geometry

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Book SynopsisIt can be used for a course that provides an introduction to basic functional analysis, approximation theory, and numerical analysis, while building upon and applying basic techniques of real variable theory.Trade ReviewSecond Edition S.C. Brenner and L.R. Scott The Mathematical Theory of Finite Element Methods "[This is] a well-written book. A great deal of material is covered, and students who have taken the trouble to master at least some of the advanced material in the later chapters would be well placed to embark on research in the area." ZENTRALBLATT MATH From the reviews of the third edition: "An excelent survey of the deep mathematical roots of finite element methods as well as of some of the newest and most formal results concerning these methods. … The approach remains very clear and precise … . A significant number of examples and exercises improve considerably the accessability of the text. The authors also point out different ways the book could be used in various courses. … valuable reference and source for researchers (mainly mathematicians) in the topic." (Calin Ioan Gheorghiu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1135 (13), 2008)Table of ContentsPreface(3rdEd).- Preface(2ndEd).- Preface(1stED).- Basic Concepts.- Sobolev Spaces.- Variational Formulation of Elliptic Boundary Value Problems.- The Construction of a Finite Element of Space.- Polynomial Approximation Theory in Sobolev Spaces.- n-Dimensional Variational Problems.- Finite Element Multigrid Methods.- Additive Schwarz Preconditioners.- Max-norm Estimates.- Adaptive Meshes.- Variational Crimes.- Applications to Planar Elasticity.- Mixed Methods.- Iterative Techniques for Mixed Methods.- Applications of Operator-Interpolation Theory.- References.- Index.

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Book SynopsisBasics.- The R environment.- Probability and distributions.- Descriptive statistics and graphics.- One- and two-sample tests.- Regression and correlation.- Analysis of variance and the KruskalWallis test.- Tabular data.- Power and the computation of sample size.- Advanced data handling.- Multiple regression.- Linear models.- Logistic regression.- Survival analysis.- Rates and Poisson regression.- Nonlinear curve fitting.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:TECHNOMETRICS"…extensive, well organized, and well documented…The book is an elegant R companion, suitable for the statistically initiated who want to program their own analyses. For experienced statisticians and data analysts, the book provides a good overview of the basic statistical analysis capabilities of R and presumably prepares readers for later migration to S…The format of this compact book is attractive…The book makes excellent use of fonts and intersperses graphics near the codes that produced them. Output from each procedure is dissected line by line to link R code with the computed result…I can recommend [this book] to its target audience. The author provides an excellent overview of R. I found the wealth of clear examples educational and a practical way to preview both R and S.""The scope of the book, introductory statistics, is a very useful set of methods in parametric and non-parametric statistics up to logistic regression and survival analysis. … Where many constructs in R are very attractive for mathematical oriented users, e.g. matrices, Dalgaard succeeded in convincing me that with little extra effort they can be made very useful to less mathematically oriented people, e.g. by specifying row and column names, and proposing quite attractive ways to specify for example ‘subsets’ of rows and columns." (Dr. H. W. M. Hendriks, Kwantitatieve Methoden, Vol. 72B8, 2003)"R is an Open Source implementation of the well-known S language. It works on multiple computing platforms and can be freely downloaded. R is thus ideally suited for teaching at many levels as well as for practical data analysis and methodological development. This book provides an elementary-level introduction to R, targeting both non-statistician scientists in various fields and students of statistics. … Brief sections introduce the statistical methods before they are used. A supplementary R package can be downloaded and contains the data sets." (Zentralblatt für Didaktik der Mathematik, August, 2004)"This is a nice book on statistical methods and statistical computing in R, a language and environment for statistical computing and graphs: this dialect of the S language is available as free software through internet. … Explanation of statistical methods, together with an interpretation of statistical concepts, is the prevailing style of the text. They are illustrated by plenty of practical examples, all computed using R. This book will be useful for novices in applied statistics or in computing in R." (European Mathematical Society Newsletter, September, 2003)"The book is an elegant R companion, suitable for the statistically initiated who want to program their own analyses. For experienced statisticians and data analysts, the book provides a good overview of the basic statistical analysis capabilities of R … prepares readers for later migration to S. … I can recommend Introductory Statistics With R to its target audience. The author provides an excellent overview of R. I found the wealth of clear examples educational and a practical way to preview both R and S." (Thomas D. Sandry, Technometrics, Vol. 45 (3), 2003)"R is both a statistical computer environment and a programming language designed to perform statistical analysis and to produce adequate corresponding graphics. … The present book is … a very useful guide for introducing a number of basic concepts and techniques necessary to practical statistics, covering both elementary statistics and actual programming in the R language. The book is organized in 12 chapters and three appendices, each chapter ending with a beneficial section of proposed exercises." (Silvia Curteanu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1006, 2003)From the reviews of the second edition:“This review … roughly cover the introductory topics of a first year statistics course. The Introductory Statistics with R (ISwR) book is targeted for a biometric/medical audience. It covers more topics … like multiple regression and survival analysis and expects the reader to know about basic statistics. … include examples and graphs together with the R code to construct them. … The ISwR book is good for an academic and biometric audience.” (Wolfgang Polasek, Statistical Papers, Vol. 52, 2011)“This is a welcome addition to the new edition that will be appreciated by its users. … The new edition is well written, and the new materials are well incorporated. Like the first edition, this edition will continue to be useful to the target audience, and I can safely recommend it to them.” (Technometrics, Vol. 51 (2), May, 2009)Table of ContentsBasics. - The R environment. - Probability and statistics. - Descriptive statistics and graphics. - One and two sample tests. - Regression and correlation. - ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis. - Tabular data. - Power and the computation of sample size. - Advanced data handling. - Multiple regression. - Linear models. - Logistic regression. - Survival analysis. - Rates and Poisson regression. - Nonlinear curve-fitting. - Obtaining and installing R and the ISwR package. - Data sets in the ISwR package. - Compendium. - Answers to exercises. - Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents surveys and research papers on various aspects of modern stability theory, including discussions on modern applications of the theory, all contributed by experts in the field. The volume consists of four sections that explore the following directions in the development of stability theory: progress in stability theory by first approximation; contemporary developments in Lyapunov's idea of the direct method; the stability of solutions to periodic differential systems; and selected applications. Advances in Stability Theory at the End of the 20th Century will interest postgraduates and researchers in engineering fields as well as those in mathematics.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Series. Preface. Overview. Progress in Stability Theory by the First Approximation. Invariant Foliations for Caratheodory Type Differential Equations. On Exponential Asymptotic Stability for Functional Differential Equations with Causal Operators. Lyapunov Problems on Stability. Contemporary Development of Lyapunov's Ideas of Direct Method. Vector Lyapunov Function: Nonlinear, Time-Varying, Ordinary and Functional Differential Equations. Some Results on Total Stability Properties for Singular Systems. Stability Theory of Voltera Difference Equations. Consistent Lyapunov Methodology for Exponential Stability: PCUP Approach. Advances in Stability Theory of Lyapunov: Old and New. Matrix Lyapunov Functions and Stability Analysis of Dynamical Systems. Stability Theorems in Impulsive Functional Differential Equations with Infinite Delay. The Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions of Stochastic Functional Differential Equations with Finite Delays by Lyapunov-Razumikhin Method. A Non-standard Approach to the Study of the Dynamic System Stability. Stability of Solutions. A Survey of Starzhinskii's Works on Stability of Periodic Motions and Nonlinear Oscillations. Implications of the Stability of an Orbit for Its Omega Limit Set. Some Concepts of Periodic Motions and Stability Originated by Analysis of Homogenous Systems. Stability Criteria for Periodic Solutions of Autonomous Hamiltonian Systems. Selected Applications. Stability in Models of Agriculture-Industry-Environment. Bifurcations of Periodic Solutions of the Three Body Problem. Complex Mechanical Systems: Steady State Motions, Oscillations, Stability. Progress in Stability of Impulsive Systems with Applications to Population Growth Models. Contemporary Development of Lyapunov's Ideas of Direct Method. Stability of Solutions to Periodic Differential Systems. Selected Applications.

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Book SynopsisStudents and researchers in applied mathematics and applied economics can use this introductory-level graduate text. It looks at the current problems of the development of the global economy by studying the dynamics of key economic variables, such as gross national product, interest rates, employment, value of capital stock, prices (inflation) and balance of payments. Validation of the model is attempted using the economic time series of several countries. The constructed models explain the macroeconomic data of nations as dynamic games of pursuit, which are equivalent to control problems and are used to study mathematical optimal control of the growth of the wealth of nations. This invaluable reference for graduates and researchers compares the extent of government intervention in the economy with private firms to ensure the controllability of the economy.Table of ContentsCompetition and Cooperation: The Social Environment for Economic Activity. Economic Dynamics. Controllable Economic Systems. Ordinary Differential Systems Model of National Economies. Oscillation: Conditions for Economic Boom; Criteria for the Prevention of Depression. Hereditary Economic Systems.

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