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  • The Math Gene

    How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip

    de Keith Devlin ...
    If people are endowed with a "number instinct" similar to the "language instinct" -- as recent research suggests -- then why can't everyone do math? In The Math Gene, mathematician and popular writer Keith Devlin attacks both sides of this question. Devlin offers a breathtakingly new theory of language development that describes how language evolved in two stages and how its main purpose was not ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Math Instinct

    Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs)

    de Keith Devlin ...
    There are two kinds of math: the hard kind and the easy kind. The easy kind, practiced by ants, shrimp, Welsh corgis -- and us -- is innate. What innate calculating skills do we humans have? Leaving aside built-in mathematics, such as the visual system, ordinary people do just fine when faced with mathematical tasks in the course of the day. Yet when they are confronted with the same tasks ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Finding Fibonacci

    The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World

    de Keith Devlin ...
    A compelling firsthand account of Keith Devlin's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's storyIn 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci has quite literally affected the lives of everyone alive today. Although he is most famous for the Fibonacci numbers—which, it so happens, he didn ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Unfinished Game

    Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern

    de Keith Devlin ...
    In the early seventeenth century, the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll was consigned to the realm of unknowable chance. Mathematicians largely agreed that it was impossible to predict the probability of an occurrence. Then, in 1654, Blaise Pascal wrote to Pierre de Fermat explaining that he had discovered how to calculate risk. The two collaborated to develop what is now known as ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Man of Numbers

    Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution

    de Keith Devlin ...
    In 1202, a 32-year old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Devised in India in the 7th and 8th centuries and brought to North Africa by Muslim traders, the Hindu-Arabic system helped transform the West into the dominant force in science, technology, and commerce, leaving behind Muslim cultures which had long known it ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Life By the Numbers

    de Keith Devlin ...
    Why do leopards grow spots when tigers grow stripes? Is the universe round, square, or some other shape? How do the dimples in a golf ball give it greater lift? Is there such a thing as a public mood? If so, how can we accurately take its pulse?Only one tool of the human mind has the power and versatility to answer so many questions about our world—mathematics. Far from a musty set of equations ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mathematics Education for a New Era

    Video Games as a Medium for Learning

    de Keith Devlin ...
    Stanford mathematician and NPR Math Guy Keith Devlin explains why, fun aside, video games are the ideal medium to teach middle-school math. Aimed primarily at teachers and education researchers, but also of interest to game developers who want to produce videogames for mathematics education, Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Med ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS

    Solving Crime with Mathematics

    de Keith Devlin, Gary Lorden ...
    The companion to the hit CBS crime series Numb3rs presents the fascinating way mathematics is used to fight real-life crimeUsing the popular CBS prime-time TV crime series Numb3rs as a springboard, Keith Devlin (known to millions of NPR listeners as the Math Guy on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon) and Gary Lorden (the principal math advisor to Numb3rs) explain real-life mathematical ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • A Mathematician's Lament

    How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

    de Paul Lockhart ...
    “One of the best critiques of current K-12 mathematics education I have ever seen, written by a first-class research mathematician who elected to devote his teaching career to K-12 education.” —Keith Devlin, NPR’s “Math Guy”A brilliant research mathematician reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Let's Play Math

    How Families Can Learn Math Together-and Enjoy It

    de Denise Gaskins ...
    Transform your child's experience of math!Even if you struggled with mathematics in school, you can help your children enjoy learning and prepare them for academic success.Author Denise Gaskins makes it easy with this mixture of math games, low-prep project ideas, and inspiring coffee-chat advice from a veteran homeschooling mother of five. Filled with stories and illustrations, Let's Play Math ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • Measurement

    de Paul Lockhart ...
    Lockhart’s Mathematician’s Lament outlined how we introduce math to students in the wrong way. Measurement explains how math should be done. With plain English and pictures, he makes complex ideas about shape and motion intuitive and graspable, and offers a solution to math phobia by introducing us to math as an artful way of thinking and living. ... Leer más

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  • A Universe from Nothing

    Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

    de Lawrence M. Krauss, Richard Dawkins ...
    Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place.“Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?”One of the few prominent scientists today to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture ... Leer más

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