Counting Australia in

Counting Australia in
Author: Graeme Laurence Cohen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2006
Genre: Mathematicians
ISBN: 9781920831394
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A comprehensive and illustrated account of the history of mathematics in Australia, ranging from the days when navigators used it to help put a new continent on the map, right up to 2006, the 50th anniversary of the Australian Mathematical Society. Details the maths societies, departments, CSIRO, and others.

The Mathematics of Projectiles in Sport

The Mathematics of Projectiles in Sport
Author: Neville de Mestre
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1990-04-19
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521398572
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Of considerable interest to applied mathematicians as well as sporting enthusiasts is the mathematical theory underlying the many sporting activities documented here, ranging from the high jump to frisbees and soccer to table tennis.

Applied Nonlinear Analysis

Applied Nonlinear Analysis
Author: Jean-Pierre Aubin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486453243
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Nonlinear analysis, formerly a subsidiary of linear analysis, has advanced as an individual discipline, with its own methods and applications. Moreover, students can now approach this highly active field without the preliminaries of linear analysis. As this text demonstrates, the concepts of nonlinear analysis are simple, their proofs direct, and their applications clear. No prerequisites are necessary beyond the elementary theory of Hilbert spaces; indeed, many of the most interesting results lie in Euclidean spaces. In order to remain at an introductory level, this volume refrains from delving into technical difficulties and sophisticated results not in current use. Applications are explained as soon as possible, and theoretical aspects are geared toward practical use. Topics range from very smooth functions to nonsmooth ones, from convex variational problems to nonconvex ones, and from economics to mechanics. Background notes, comments, bibliography, and indexes supplement the text.

A Dingo Ate My Math Book

A Dingo Ate My Math Book
Author: Burkard Polster
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-12-27
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470435217
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A Dingo Ate My Math Book presents ingenious, unusual, and beautiful nuggets of mathematics with a distinctly Australian flavor. It focuses, for example, on Australians' love of sports and gambling, and on Melbourne's iconic, mathematically inspired architecture. Written in a playful and humorous style, the book offers mathematical entertainment as well as a glimpse of Australian culture for the mathematically curious of all ages. This collection of engaging stories was extracted from the Maths Masters column that ran from 2007 to 2014 in Australia's Age newspaper. The maths masters in question are Burkard Polster and Marty Ross, two (immigrant) Aussie mathematicians, who each week would write about math in the news, providing a new look at old favorites, mathematical history, quirks of school mathematics—whatever took their fancy. All articles were written for a very general audience, with the intention of being as inviting as possible and assuming a minimum of mathematical background.

Lectures on Real Analysis

Lectures on Real Analysis
Author: Finnur Lárusson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2012-06-07
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1139511041
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This is a rigorous introduction to real analysis for undergraduate students, starting from the axioms for a complete ordered field and a little set theory. The book avoids any preconceptions about the real numbers and takes them to be nothing but the elements of a complete ordered field. All of the standard topics are included, as well as a proper treatment of the trigonometric functions, which many authors take for granted. The final chapters of the book provide a gentle, example-based introduction to metric spaces with an application to differential equations on the real line. The author's exposition is concise and to the point, helping students focus on the essentials. Over 200 exercises of varying difficulty are included, many of them adding to the theory in the text. The book is perfect for second-year undergraduates and for more advanced students who need a foundation in real analysis.

Teaching and Learning Mathematics Online

Teaching and Learning Mathematics Online
Author: James P. Howard, II
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2020-05-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1351245562
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Online education has become a major component of higher education worldwide. In mathematics and statistics courses, there exists a number of challenges that are unique to the teaching and learning of mathematics and statistics in an online environment. These challenges are deeply connected to already existing difficulties related to math anxiety, conceptual understanding of mathematical ideas, communicating mathematically, and the appropriate use of technology. Teaching and Learning Mathematics Online bridges these issues by presenting meaningful and practical solutions for teaching mathematics and statistics online. It focuses on the problems observed by mathematics instructors currently working in the field who strive to hone their craft and share best practices with our professional community. The book provides a set of standard practices, improving the quality of online teaching and the learning of mathematics. Instructors will benefit from learning new techniques and approaches to delivering content. Features Based on the experiences of working educators in the field Assimilates the latest technology developments for interactive distance education Focuses on mathematical education for developing early mathematics courses