CK-12 Calculus

CK-12 Calculus
Author: CK-12 Foundation
Publisher: CK-12 Foundation
Total Pages: 603
Release: 2010-08-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1935983016

CK-12 Foundation's Single Variable Calculus FlexBook introduces high school students to the topics covered in the Calculus AB course. Topics include: Limits, Derivatives, and Integration.

CK-12 Probability and Statistics - Basic (A Short Course)

CK-12 Probability and Statistics - Basic (A Short Course)
Author: Brenda Meery
Publisher: CK-12 Foundation
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1935983741

CK-12 Foundation's Basic Probability and Statistics A Short Course is an introduction to theoretical probability and data organization. Students learn about events, conditions, random variables, and graphs and tables that allow them to manage data.

CK-12 Math Analysis

CK-12 Math Analysis
Author: CK-12 Foundation
Publisher: CK-12 Foundation
Total Pages: 617
Release: 2012-04-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1935983598

CK-12 Foundation's Math Analysis FlexBook is a rigorous text that takes students from analyzing functions to mathematical induction to an introduction to calculus.

Math, Grade 8

Math, Grade 8
Author: Thomas Richards
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2009-01-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0768238080

Test with success using the Spectrum Math workbook! This book helps students in grade 8 apply essential math skills to everyday life. The lessons focus on ratio and proportion, fractions, percents, calculating interest, perimeter, volume, and statistics,

CK-12 Engineering: An Introduction for High School

CK-12 Engineering: An Introduction for High School
Author: Dale Baker
Publisher: CK-12 Foundation
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2010-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1935983121

The nature of engineering and it's societal impact are covered, as well as the educational and legal requirements needed to become an engineer. Engineers contribute to the development of many innovations that improve life. We investigate how engineers work to meet human needs; great engineering accomplishments of the past; and consider needs that engineering must meet in the future. Engineering design process, how it differs design processes, and how the implementation of the design process effects the quality of the resulting design. The application of the principles of mathematics and science to the creation or modification of components, systems, and processes for the benefit of society are covered with a focus on the balance between quality, performance, and cost. How engineers use creativity and judgment to solve societal how problems; complex engineering problems are usually solved by teams are covered; as well as the intended desirable consequences and unintended undesirable consequences of engineering.

Precalculus Concepts Preliminary

Precalculus Concepts Preliminary
Author: Warren W. Esty
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Algebra
ISBN: 9780132616942

In trying to develop fluency in the abstract and symbolic language of algebra to ensure that readers learn, understand, and think mathematical thoughts, this text has the goal of enabling students to read, write, think and apply mathematics, and of giving students command of the facts and methods of algebra and trigonometry. The text emphasizes the appropriate and creative use of technology, but even more, the understanding of concepts and symbolism. In general, the goals for the text are to equip students for calculus and to promote understanding and retention of mathematical thoughts.

Advanced Calculus (Revised Edition)

Advanced Calculus (Revised Edition)
Author: Lynn Harold Loomis
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2014-02-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9814583952

An authorised reissue of the long out of print classic textbook, Advanced Calculus by the late Dr Lynn Loomis and Dr Shlomo Sternberg both of Harvard University has been a revered but hard to find textbook for the advanced calculus course for decades.This book is based on an honors course in advanced calculus that the authors gave in the 1960's. The foundational material, presented in the unstarred sections of Chapters 1 through 11, was normally covered, but different applications of this basic material were stressed from year to year, and the book therefore contains more material than was covered in any one year. It can accordingly be used (with omissions) as a text for a year's course in advanced calculus, or as a text for a three-semester introduction to analysis.The prerequisites are a good grounding in the calculus of one variable from a mathematically rigorous point of view, together with some acquaintance with linear algebra. The reader should be familiar with limit and continuity type arguments and have a certain amount of mathematical sophistication. As possible introductory texts, we mention Differential and Integral Calculus by R Courant, Calculus by T Apostol, Calculus by M Spivak, and Pure Mathematics by G Hardy. The reader should also have some experience with partial derivatives.In overall plan the book divides roughly into a first half which develops the calculus (principally the differential calculus) in the setting of normed vector spaces, and a second half which deals with the calculus of differentiable manifolds.

Protists and Fungi

Protists and Fungi
Author: Gareth Editorial Staff
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2003-07-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780836833713

Explores the appearance, characteristics, and behavior of protists and fungi, lifeforms which are neither plants nor animals, using specific examples such as algae, mold, and mushrooms.

Vertex Operator Algebras and the Monster

Vertex Operator Algebras and the Monster
Author: Igor Frenkel
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 563
Release: 1989-05-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0080874541

This work is motivated by and develops connections between several branches of mathematics and physics--the theories of Lie algebras, finite groups and modular functions in mathematics, and string theory in physics. The first part of the book presents a new mathematical theory of vertex operator algebras, the algebraic counterpart of two-dimensional holomorphic conformal quantum field theory. The remaining part constructs the Monster finite simple group as the automorphism group of a very special vertex operator algebra, called the "moonshine module" because of its relevance to "monstrous moonshine."