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| Author | : Colin Adams |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2023-09-16 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 3031314913 |
Why is the Devil thrilled when Hell gets its first mathematician? How do 6 and 27 solve the diabolical murder of 9? What are the advantages a vampire has in the math world? What happens when we run out of new math to discover? How does Dr. Frankenstein create the ideal mathematical creature? What transpires when a grad student digging for theorems strikes a rich vein on the ridge overlooking Deadwood? What happens when math students band together to foment rebellion? What will a mathematician do beyond the grave to finish that elusive proof? This is just a small subset of the questions plumbed in this collection of 45 mathematically bent stories from the fertile imagination of Colin Adams. Originally appearing in The Mathematical Intelligencer, an expository mathematics magazine, these tales give a decidedly unconventional look at the world of mathematics and mathematicians. A section of notes is provided at the end of the book that explain references that may not be familiar to all and that include additional commentary by the author.
| Author | : Clifton Fadiman |
| Publisher | : Copernicus |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 1997-04-04 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : |
The companion volume to Fadiman's Fantasia Mathematica, this second anthology of mathematical writings is even more varied and contains stories, cartoons, essays, rhymes, music, anecdotes, aphorisms, and other oddments. Authors include Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, and many other renowned figures.
| Author | : Chandler Davis |
| Publisher | : A K Peters/CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008-10-28 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 9781568814445 |
This book is a collection of creative pieces—poems, short stories, essays, play excerpts—that give shape to mathematical and scientific content. This book portrays by example how various people work creatively with ideas from mathematics and other sciences. Creative writing about the content of mathematics and science is rare, and creative writing about the activity of mathematical and scientific creation is even rarer. And yet, when it occurs, it can be extremely popular, as well known plays like Proof and Copenhagen and biographies like A Beautiful Mind and The Man Who Loved Only Numbers attest. What draws the public to these works? And why, given that something does, are there so few examples of literature that engages these themes? Mathematics and science are part of world culture, part of the human spirit, fit subjects for art of all kinds.
| Author | : Karel Kriz |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2012-10-11 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3642297692 |
This book collects revised versions of papers first delivered at the “Understanding Different Geographies Symposium” held in Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria in 2011. The Symposium focussed on “Communicating Meaning with [Geo]Graphic Artefacts”. The general topics of the chapters cover: - Exploring geographic knowledge - Maps in exhibition spaces - Information and exhibition design with (geo)graphic artefacts - Extracting meaning from visualisations of different geographies - Deconstructing maps of information - and other spaces
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| Publisher | : Mathematical Assn of Amer |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 9780883855522 |
Presents sixteen short stories involving mathematics, including tales in which a nineteenth-century woman mathematician is murdered, a nursing home resident explains how he disproved Goldbach's conjecture in college, and Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell discovers electromagnetic waves.
| Author | : Michael Harris |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2017-05-30 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 0691175837 |
An insightful reflection on the mathematical soul What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers—for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications—this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources. Drawing on his personal experiences and obsessions as well as the thoughts and opinions of mathematicians from Archimedes and Omar Khayyám to such contemporary giants as Alexander Grothendieck and Robert Langlands, Michael Harris reveals the charisma and romance of mathematics as well as its darker side. In this portrait of mathematics as a community united around a set of common intellectual, ethical, and existential challenges, he touches on a wide variety of questions, such as: Are mathematicians to blame for the 2008 financial crisis? How can we talk about the ideas we were born too soon to understand? And how should you react if you are asked to explain number theory at a dinner party? Disarmingly candid, relentlessly intelligent, and richly entertaining, Mathematics without Apologies takes readers on an unapologetic guided tour of the mathematical life, from the philosophy and sociology of mathematics to its reflections in film and popular music, with detours through the mathematical and mystical traditions of Russia, India, medieval Islam, the Bronx, and beyond.
| Author | : Jonathan Black |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 803 |
| Release | : 2013-05-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0857383086 |
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The complete history of the world, from the beginning of time to the present day, based on the beliefs and writings of the secret societies. Jonathan Black examines the end of the world and the coming of the Antichrist. Or is the Antichrist already here? How will he make himself known and what will become of the world when he does? Willl it be the end of Time? Having studied theology and learnt from initiates of all the great secret societies of the world, Jonathan Black has learned that it is possible to reach an altered state of consciousness in which we can see things about the way the world works that hidden from our everyday commonsensical consciousness. This history shows that by using secret techniques, people such as Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton and George Washington have worked themselves into this altered state - and have been able to access supernatural levels of intelligence. This book will leave you questioning every aspect of your life and spotting hidden messages in the very fabric of society and in life itself. It will open your mind to a new way of living and leave you questioning everything you have been taught - and everything you've taught your children.
| Author | : Colin Conrad Adams |
| Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 0821848178 |
This collection of humorous stories have a mathematical dimension, or sometimes several. The mathematically adept should get the humor on first readings, the author says, but for other readers, he includes explanatory end notes.
| Author | : Joe Haldeman |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2008-07-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 144063565X |
NOW IN PAPERBACK-FROM THE AUTHOR OF MARSBOUND Grad- school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when he inadvertently creates a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose in taking a time-machine trip himself-or so he thinks.
| Author | : Colin Adams |
| Publisher | : Times Books |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2015-10-06 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1627798854 |
Written by three gifted-and funny-teachers, How to Ace Calculus provides humorous and readable explanations of the key topics of calculus without the technical details and fine print that would be found in a more formal text. Capturing the tone of students exchanging ideas among themselves, this unique guide also explains how calculus is taught, how to get the best teachers, what to study, and what is likely to be on exams-all the tricks of the trade that will make learning the material of first-semester calculus a piece of cake. Funny, irreverent, and flexible, How to Ace Calculus shows why learning calculus can be not only a mind-expanding experience but also fantastic fun.
