By J. Michael Steele

Michael Steele describes the basic subject matters in mathematical inequalities and their makes use of. utilizing the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality as a consultant, Steele offers a desirable selection of difficulties relating to inequalities and coaches readers via strategies, in a method akin to George Polya, through educating uncomplicated recommendations and sprucing challenge fixing talents even as. Undergraduate and starting graduate scholars in arithmetic, theoretical desktop technology, information, engineering, and economics will locate the booklet applicable for self-study.

By William P. Berlinghoff

The place did maths come from? Who notion up all these algebra symbols, and why? what is the tale in the back of ... destructive numbers? ... the metric approach? ... quadratic equations? ... sine and cosine? The 25 self sufficient sketches in Math in the course of the a long time resolution those questions etc in a casual, easygoing kind that is obtainable to academics, scholars, and a person who's keen on the historical past of mathematical rules. every one cartoon comprises Questions and initiatives that can assist you examine extra approximately its subject and to determine how its major principles healthy into the larger photograph of background. The 25 brief tales are preceded via a 56-page bird's-eye evaluate of the total landscape of mathematical background, a whirlwind journey of crucial humans, occasions, and developments that formed the math we all know this present day. analyzing feedback after every one comic strip supply beginning issues for readers who are looking to pursue an issue extra.

By Klaus Renger

By Stan Wagon (auth.), Stan Wagon (eds.)

In this 3rd variation of Mathematica® in Action, award-winning writer Stan Wagon courses newbie and veteran clients alike via Mathematica's strong instruments for mathematical exploration. The transition to Mathematica 7 is made gentle with lots of examples and case experiences that make the most of Mathematica's most recent instruments, reminiscent of dynamic manipulations and adaptive 3-dimensional plotting. Mathematica in Action additionally emphasizes the breadth of Mathematica and the outstanding result of combining innovations from diverse components. This fabric permits the reader to exploit Mathematica to unravel various advanced problems.

Case stories starting from straight forward to stylish are supplied all through. each time attainable, the ebook exhibits how Mathematica can be utilized to find new issues. impressive examples contain the layout of a street on which a sq. wheel motorbike can journey, the layout of a drill that could drill sq. holes, an indication of the Banach—Tarski Paradox through hyperbolic geometry, new and mind-blowing formulation for p, the invention of shadow orbits for chaotic structures, and using robust new features for 3-dimensional portraits. Visualization is emphasised all through, with finely crafted portraits in every one chapter.

Wagon is the writer of 11 books on arithmetic, together with A direction in Computational quantity Theory, named one of many ten top math books of 2000 via the yank Library organization. He has written greatly at the academic purposes of Mathematica, together with the books VisualDSolve: Visualizing Differential Equations with Mathematica, and Animating Calculus: Mathematica Notebooks for the Laboratory.

From stories of the second one edition:

"In a blinding variety of examples Stan Wagon indicates how such positive aspects as animation, three-dimensional photos and high-precision integer mathematics can give a contribution to our realizing and delight of mathematics."
—Richard Walker, The Mathematical Gazette

"The base line is that Mathematica in Action is an exceptional publication containing many examples of actual makes use of of Mathematica for the amateur, intermediate, and specialist user."
—Mark McClure, Mathematica in schooling and Research

By Jeff J. Kolby, Derrick Vaughn

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By Dullerud G.E., Paganini F.

Throughout the 90s strong regulate thought has obvious significant advances and completed a brand new adulthood, founded round the inspiration of convexity. The objective of this booklet is to offer a graduate-level direction in this concept that emphasizes those new advancements, yet while conveys the most ideas and ubiquitous instruments on the middle of the topic. Its pedagogical targets are to introduce a coherent and unified framework for learning the speculation, to supply scholars with the control-theoretic heritage required to learn and give a contribution to the study literature, and to give the most rules and demonstrations of the key effects. The publication could be of worth to mathematical researchers and laptop scientists, graduate scholars planning on doing study within the sector, and engineering practitioners requiring complex regulate innovations.

By Steven H. Strogatz

Publish yr note: First released July fifth 2009
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The Calculus of Friendship is the tale of a unprecedented connection among a instructor and a scholar, as chronicled via greater than thirty years of letters among them. What makes their courting detailed is that it's dependent virtually fullyyt on a shared love of calculus. For them, calculus is greater than a department of arithmetic; it's a video game they love taking part in jointly, a relentless whilst all else is in flux. the trainer is going from the leading of his profession to retirement, competes in whitewater kayaking on the foreign point, and loses a son. the coed matures from highschool math whiz to Ivy League professor, suffers the surprising dying of a father or mother, and errors right into a marriage destined to fail. but via all of it they take shelter within the haven of calculus--until an afternoon comes whilst calculus is not any longer enough.

Like calculus itself, The Calculus of Friendship is an exploration of swap. It's concerning the transformation that happens in a student's middle, as he and his instructor opposite roles, as they age, as they're buffeted by way of existence itself. Written via a popular instructor and communicator of arithmetic, The Calculus of Friendship is hot, intimate, and deeply relocating. the main inspiring principles of calculus, differential equations, and chaos idea are defined via metaphors, photos, and anecdotes in a fashion that every one readers will locate appealing, or even poignant. Math lovers, from highschool scholars to pros, will get pleasure from the offbeat difficulties and lucid reasons within the letters.

For an individual whose lifestyles has been replaced through a mentor, The Calculus of Friendship might be an unforgettable trip.

By Berti M., Matzeu M., Valdinoci E.

By By Martin, Edward editor.

By Ji-Xiu C., Li T.

This ebook features a choice of greater than 500 mathematical difficulties and their suggestions from the PhD qualifying exam papers of greater than ten well-known American universities. the issues hide six points of graduate institution arithmetic: Algebra, Differential Geometry, Topology, actual research, advanced research and Partial Differential Equations. The intensity of information concerned isn't really past the contents of the textbooks for graduate scholars, whereas resolution of the issues calls for deep figuring out of the mathematical rules and expert ideas. for college students this ebook is a important supplement to textbooks; for teachers instructing graduate college arithmetic, a useful reference.