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  • The New Mathematical Coloring Book

    Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of Its Creators

    by Alexander Soifer ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The New Mathematical Coloring Book (TNMCB) includes striking results of the past 15-year renaissance that produced new approaches, advances, and solutions to problems from the first edition. A large part of the new edition “Ask what your computer can do for you,” presents the recent breakthrough by Aubrey de Grey and works by Marijn Heule, Jaan Parts, Geoffrey Exoo, and Dan Ismailescu. TNMCB ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: The Third Decade and Further Explorations

    From the Mountains of Colorado to the Peaks of Mathematics

    by Alexander Soifer ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Now in its third decade, the Colorado Mathematical Olympiad (CMO), founded by the author, has become an annual state-wide competition, hosting many hundreds of middle and high school contestants each year. This book presents a year-by-year history of the CMO from 2004–2013 with all the problems from the competitions and their solutions. Additionally, the book includes 10 further explorations, ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden

    by Alexander Soifer ...
    Bartel Leendert van der Waerden made major contributions to algebraic geometry, abstract algebra, quantum mechanics, and other fields. He liberally published on the history of mathematics. His 2-volume work Modern Algebra is one of the most influential and popular mathematical books ever written. It is therefore surprising that no monograph has been dedicated to his life and work. Van der Waerden ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Competitions for Young Mathematicians

    Perspectives from Five Continents

    Edited by Alexander Soifer ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book gathers the best presentations from the Topic Study Group 30: Mathematics Competitions at ICME-13 in Hamburg, and some from related groups, focusing on the field of working with gifted students. Each of the chapters includes not only original ideas, but also original mathematical problems and their solutions. The book is a valuable resource for researchers in mathematics education, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Ramsey Theory

    Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

    Edited by Alexander Soifer ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Ramsey theory is a relatively “new,” approximately 100 year-old direction of fascinating mathematical thought that touches on many classic fields of mathematics such as combinatorics, number theory, geometry, ergodic theory, topology, combinatorial geometry, set theory, and measure theory. Ramsey theory possesses its own unifying ideas, and some of its results are among the most beautiful theorems ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    An Introduction to Computational Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra

    by David A. Cox, John Little, Donal O'Shea ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This text covers topics in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra with a strong perspective toward practical and computational aspects. The first four chapters form the core of the book. A comprehensive chart in the Preface illustrates a variety of ways to proceed with the material once these chapters are covered. In addition to the fundamentals of algebraic geometry—the elimination theorem, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Feynman's Rainbow

    A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life

    by Leonard Mlodinow ...
    Einstein's Dreams meets Tuesdays with Morrie in Leonard Mlodinow's touching memoir about the guidance granted him by his mentor, the brilliant physicist Richard Feynman: "An accessible portrait of a brilliant man" (Stephen Hawking).For some, it was that special connection with a grandparent or a football coach, a boss, or a cleric. For Leonard Mlodinow, as a young physicist struggling to find h ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Extended Abstracts Summer 2015

    Strategic Behavior in Combinatorial Structures; Quantitative Finance

    Edited by Josep Díaz, Lefteris Kirousis, Luis Ortiz-Gracia, Maria Serna ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is divided into two parts, the first of which seeks to connect the phase transitions of various disciplines, including game theory, and to explore the synergies between statistical physics and combinatorics. Phase Transitions has been an active multidisciplinary field of research, bringing together physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians. The main research theme explores how ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Proofiness

    How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

    by Charles Seife ...
    The bestselling author of Zero shows how mathematical misinformation pervades-and shapes-our daily lives.According to MSNBC, having a child makes you stupid. You actually lose IQ points. Good Morning America has announced that natural blondes will be extinct within two hundred years. Pundits estimated that there were more than a million demonstrators at a tea party rally in Washington, D.C., even ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Numerati

    by Stephen Baker ...
    Learn how the crisis over digital privacy and manipulation evolved in this "utterly fascinating" look at the growth of data mining and analysis ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer).Award-winning journalist Stephen Baker traces the rise of the "global math elite": computer scientists who invent ways to not only record our behavior, but also to predict and alter it. Nowadays, we don't need to be online to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Recent Trends in Combinatorics

    Edited by Andrew Beveridge, Jerrold R. Griggs, Leslie Hogben, Gregg Musiker, Prasad Tetali ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This volume presents some of the research topics discussed at the 2014-2015 Annual Thematic Program Discrete Structures: Analysis and Applications at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications during Fall 2014, when combinatorics was the focus. Leading experts have written surveys of research problems, making state of the art results more conveniently and widely available. The three-part ... Read more

    $197.99 USD

  • The History of Mathematics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jacqueline Stedall ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Mathematics is a fundamental human activity that can be practised and understood in a multitude of ways; indeed, mathematical ideas themselves are far from being fixed, but are adapted and changed by their passage across periods and cultures. In this Very Short Introduction, Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant past to ... Read more

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