Broadway Books, September 2017. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric--with a new afterword "A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent."--Financial Times.....
Pearson, 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good in wappers (paperback). This volume takes a hands-on approach to the introduction of basic statistical methods, using a highly interactive method. Readers are taught to ask "why" and think like a statistician to find the logical solution. With its strong emphasis on data analysis.....
Clarendon Press, 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 334 pages. 9 by 12-1/4 inches. Illustrated in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). Very good in wappers (paperback). Stain (coffee?) on cover and first few pages; creases to rear cover. Mathematics was integral to Mesopotamian scribal culture: indeed, writing was invented towards the.....
Penguin Books, May 2015. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . . --Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn.....
Z Subwencji Funduszu Kultury Narodowej, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 254 pages. The first monograph of the general theory of operations, one of the fundamental parts of functional calculus. Text in French. The major work by the influential mathematician who had many mathematical concepts named after him. First edition (first printing).....
Birkhauser Verlag Ag, 1983. Hardcover. 254 pages. Near fine hardcover (previous owner's name stamped on edges). No dust jacket, as issued. Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining.
American Mathematical Society, 1993. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This volume contains the proceedings of the International Workshop on Banach Space Theory, held at the Universidad de Los Andes in Merida, Venezuela in January 1992. These refereed papers contain the newest results in Banach space theory, real or.....
Simon & Schuster, 19982. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 192 pages. Illustrations in color. 12 x 10 inches. 'Fractals are unique patterns left behind by the unpredictable movements - the chaos - of the world. The branching pattern of trees, the veins in a hand, water twisting out of a running.....
Basic Books, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 173 pages. First US edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. How did a single "genesis event" create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How did atoms assemble--here on earth, and perhaps on other worlds--into living beings intricate.....
Oliver and Boyd, 1962. Hardcover. 160 pages. Originally published 1952. Later printing. Near fine copy in blue cloth with bright gilt decoration and lettering. In a very good, price-clipped, dust jacket with chips missing from top and bottom of spine.
Penguin Books, September 2011. Trade Paperback. From the author of Zero, comes this "admirable salvo against quantitative bamboozlement by the media and the government" (The Boston Globe) In Zero, Charles Seife presented readers with a thrilling account of the strangest number known to humankind. Now he shows readers how the.....
Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc., 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. 517 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a dust jacket with loss to the spine head and other chips and tears at the folds and edges. From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate.....
Harper Perennial, May 2019. Trade Paperback. How precise is this book? Winchester explores the Age of Precision dating back to avid-supporter Thomas Jefferson who ushered into the U.S. the concept of Standardization. A remarkable journey of how we got where we are and why so much of the Natural World.....
Touchstone, July 1986. Trade Paperback. From one of the greatest minds in contemporary mathematics, Professor E.T. Bell, comes a witty, accessible, and fascinating look at the beautiful craft and enthralling history of mathematics. Men of Mathematics provides a rich account of major mathematical milestones, from the geometry of the Greeks.....
Harper Perennial, May 2019. Trade Paperback. How precise is this book? Winchester explores the Age of Precision dating back to avid-supporter Thomas Jefferson who ushered into the U.S. the concept of Standardization. A remarkable journey of how we got where we are and why so much of the Natural World.....
Basic Books, October 1998. Hardcover. "Once Upon a Number" shows that stories and numbers aren't as different as you might imagine, and in fact they have surprising and fascinating connections. The concepts of logic and probability both grew out of intuitive ideas about how certain stories would play out. Now.....
Dover Publications, June 1965. Trade Paperback. This excursion enters thefascinating borderland of science, where many disciplines overlap: the realm of optical illusions. First published in 1922, it remains the best introduction for lay readers, describing virtually every type of visual illusion, includingcolor, nature, depth, and distance. 100 figures."
Dover Publications, April 2008. Trade Paperback. This accessible and self-contained treatment provides even readers previously unacquainted with parabolic and elliptic equations with sufficient background to understand research literature. Author Avner Friedman -- Director of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at The Ohio State University -- offers a systematic and thorough approach.....
Dover Publications, November 2008. Trade Paperback. This three-part treatment focuses on elliptic and evolution equations. Largely self-contained, this volume concludes with a series of independent topics related to the methods and results of preceding sections and introduces advanced topics for further study. Geared toward graduate and postgraduate students, it also.....
Dover Publications, March 2010. Trade Paperback. This text surveys the principal methods of solving partial differential equations. Suitable for graduate students of mathematics, engineering, and physical sciences, it requires knowledge of advanced calculus. The initial chapter contains an elementary presentation of Hilbert space theory that provides sufficient background for understanding.....
Dover Publications, April 2008. Trade Paperback. This exploration of the mathematical methods of physics takes a careful look at mathematical entities and explains their elementary properties. Its examples, drawn from the physical sciences, illustrate the application of concepts. The theory of distributions is introduced early and employed throughout the text.....
Dover Publications, June 2005. Trade Paperback. Non-Riemannian Geometry deals basically with manifolds dominated by the geometry of paths developed by the author, Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, and Oswald Veblen, who were faculty colleagues at Princeton University during the early twentieth century. Eisenhart played an active role in developing Princeton's preeminence among.....
Dover Publications, October 1993. Trade Paperback. This reissue of the classic 1932 edition is an indication of this work's lasting value. Constantly in use since its publication in 1892, it has proved to be the definitive reference for all fluid dynamicists. A new foreword highlights the prominence of the publication.....
Schwickertschen Verlage and E. B. Schwickert, 1803-1836. First Edition. Hardcover. A rare complete set of this early 19th century German dictionary of pure mathematics, published in five volumes (in six books) and a two-volume supplement (Supplemente zu G. S. Kluegel's Woorterbuche der reinen Mathematik). Volumes 4 and 5 were co-written.....
Verlag von Veit & Comp. 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. 550 pages. A dense study of the Fredholm determinant, a complex function to generalize the determinant of a matrix. The work is perhaps most notable for introducing modern matrix notation (also credited to Cuthbert Cullis in 1913). See Cajoni, History of.....