50 mathematical ideas you really need to know / / Edward Russell-Walling |
Autore | Russell-Walling Edward |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified] : , : Quercus Publishing, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 510 |
Soggetto topico | Mathematics |
ISBN | 1-68144-592-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910162686503321 |
Russell-Walling Edward
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50 visions of mathematics / / edited by Sam Parc ; [with a foreword by Dara O Briain] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (198 pages, 16 pages of plates) |
Disciplina | 510 |
Altri autori (Persone) | O BriainDara <1972-> |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
Mathématiques MATHEMATICS - Essays MATHEMATICS - Pre-Calculus MATHEMATICS - Reference Mathematik Unterhaltungsmathematik Angewandte Mathematik |
Soggetto genere / forma | Popular works. |
ISBN |
9780191005336
0191005339 1306980143 9781306980142 9780191005343 0191005347 9780198701811 0198701810 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; FOREWORD: A BAD MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY; Dara o Briain; PREFACE; CONTENTS; Plates; 1 What's the problem with mathematics?; David Acheson; 2 The mathematics of messages; Alan J. Aw; 3 Decathlon: The art of scoring points; John D. Barrow; 4 Queen Dido and the mathematics of the extreme; Greg Bason; 5 Can strings tie things together?; David Berman; 6 Dimples, grooves, and knuckleballs; Ken Bray; 7 Pigs didn't fly but swine flu; Ellen Brooks-Pollock and Ken Eames; 8 Bill Tutte: Unsung Bletchley hero; Chris Budd; 9 What's the use of a quadratic equation?; Chris Budd and Chris Sangwin.
10 Tony Hilton Royle SkyrmeAlan Champneys; 11 The mathematics of obesity; Carson C. Chow; 12 It's a small world really; Tony Crilly; 13 How does mathematics help at a murder scene?; Graham Divall; 14 Mathematics: The language of the universe; Marcus Du Sautoy; 15 The troublesome geometry of CAT scanning; Richard Elwes; 16 The mathematics of sports gambling; Alistair Fitt; PYTHAGORAS'S THEOREM: a2; Hommage © Queneau; 17 A conversation with Freeman Dyson; Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas; 18 A glass of bubbly; Paul Glendinning; 19 The influenza virus: It's allin the packaging; Julia Gog. 20 Solving the Bristol bridge problemThilo Gross; 21 All ravens are black: Puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics; David Hand; 22 The Tower of Hanoi: Where mathematics meets psychology; Andreas M. Hinz and Marianne Freiberger; 23 Career: A sample path; Philip Holmes; 24 Sweets in the jar; Steve Humble; 25 Mary Cartwright; Lisa Jardine; 26 The fallibility of mathematics; Adam Jasko; 27 Anecdotes of Dr Barrow; Tom K©œrner; 28 Finding Apollo; Adam Kucharski; 29 The golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics; Mario Livio; 30 The high-power hypar; Peter Lynch. 31 This is not a carrot: Paraconsistent mathematicsMaarten Mckubre-Jordens; 32 The mystery of Groombridge Place; Alexander Masters and Simon Norton; PYTHAGORAS'S THEOREM: b2; Hommage © Queneau; 33 Mathematicians at the movies: Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty; Derek E. Moulton and Alain Goriely; 34 The mysterious number 6174; Yutaka Nishiyama; 35 Percolating possibilities; Colva Roney-Dougal and Vince Vatter; 36 Milestones on a non-Euclidean journey; Caroline Series; 37 Simpson's rule; Simon Singh; 38 Risking your life; David Spiegelhalter; 39 Networks and illusions; Ian Stewart. 40 Emmy Noether: Against the oddsDanielle Stretch; 41 Of catastrophes and creodes; Paul Taylor; 42 Conic section hide and seek; Rachel Thomas; 43 Sir James Lighthill: A life in waves; Ahmer Wadee; 44 Fail safe or fail dangerous?; Ahmer Wadee and Alan Champneys; 45 Leapfrogging into the future: How child's play is at the heart of weather and climate models; Paul Williams; 46 Motorway mathematics; Eddie Wilson; 47 The philosophy of applied mathematics; Phil Wilson; 48 Mighty morphogenesis; Thomas Woolley; 49 Called to the barcode; Andrew Wrigley; 50 Roughly fifty-fifty?; Gunter M. Ziegler. |
Altri titoli varianti | Fifty visions of mathematics |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786790103321 |
Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 | ||
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50 visions of mathematics / / edited by Sam Parc ; [with a foreword by Dara O Briain] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (198 pages, 16 pages of plates) |
Disciplina | 510 |
Altri autori (Persone) | O BriainDara <1972-> |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
Mathématiques MATHEMATICS - Essays MATHEMATICS - Pre-Calculus MATHEMATICS - Reference Mathematik Unterhaltungsmathematik Angewandte Mathematik |
Soggetto genere / forma | Popular works. |
ISBN |
9780191005336
0191005339 1306980143 9781306980142 9780191005343 0191005347 9780198701811 0198701810 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; FOREWORD: A BAD MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY; Dara o Briain; PREFACE; CONTENTS; Plates; 1 What's the problem with mathematics?; David Acheson; 2 The mathematics of messages; Alan J. Aw; 3 Decathlon: The art of scoring points; John D. Barrow; 4 Queen Dido and the mathematics of the extreme; Greg Bason; 5 Can strings tie things together?; David Berman; 6 Dimples, grooves, and knuckleballs; Ken Bray; 7 Pigs didn't fly but swine flu; Ellen Brooks-Pollock and Ken Eames; 8 Bill Tutte: Unsung Bletchley hero; Chris Budd; 9 What's the use of a quadratic equation?; Chris Budd and Chris Sangwin.
10 Tony Hilton Royle SkyrmeAlan Champneys; 11 The mathematics of obesity; Carson C. Chow; 12 It's a small world really; Tony Crilly; 13 How does mathematics help at a murder scene?; Graham Divall; 14 Mathematics: The language of the universe; Marcus Du Sautoy; 15 The troublesome geometry of CAT scanning; Richard Elwes; 16 The mathematics of sports gambling; Alistair Fitt; PYTHAGORAS'S THEOREM: a2; Hommage © Queneau; 17 A conversation with Freeman Dyson; Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas; 18 A glass of bubbly; Paul Glendinning; 19 The influenza virus: It's allin the packaging; Julia Gog. 20 Solving the Bristol bridge problemThilo Gross; 21 All ravens are black: Puzzles and paradoxes in probability and statistics; David Hand; 22 The Tower of Hanoi: Where mathematics meets psychology; Andreas M. Hinz and Marianne Freiberger; 23 Career: A sample path; Philip Holmes; 24 Sweets in the jar; Steve Humble; 25 Mary Cartwright; Lisa Jardine; 26 The fallibility of mathematics; Adam Jasko; 27 Anecdotes of Dr Barrow; Tom K©œrner; 28 Finding Apollo; Adam Kucharski; 29 The golden ratio in astronomy and astrophysics; Mario Livio; 30 The high-power hypar; Peter Lynch. 31 This is not a carrot: Paraconsistent mathematicsMaarten Mckubre-Jordens; 32 The mystery of Groombridge Place; Alexander Masters and Simon Norton; PYTHAGORAS'S THEOREM: b2; Hommage © Queneau; 33 Mathematicians at the movies: Sherlock Holmes vs Professor Moriarty; Derek E. Moulton and Alain Goriely; 34 The mysterious number 6174; Yutaka Nishiyama; 35 Percolating possibilities; Colva Roney-Dougal and Vince Vatter; 36 Milestones on a non-Euclidean journey; Caroline Series; 37 Simpson's rule; Simon Singh; 38 Risking your life; David Spiegelhalter; 39 Networks and illusions; Ian Stewart. 40 Emmy Noether: Against the oddsDanielle Stretch; 41 Of catastrophes and creodes; Paul Taylor; 42 Conic section hide and seek; Rachel Thomas; 43 Sir James Lighthill: A life in waves; Ahmer Wadee; 44 Fail safe or fail dangerous?; Ahmer Wadee and Alan Champneys; 45 Leapfrogging into the future: How child's play is at the heart of weather and climate models; Paul Williams; 46 Motorway mathematics; Eddie Wilson; 47 The philosophy of applied mathematics; Phil Wilson; 48 Mighty morphogenesis; Thomas Woolley; 49 Called to the barcode; Andrew Wrigley; 50 Roughly fifty-fifty?; Gunter M. Ziegler. |
Altri titoli varianti | Fifty visions of mathematics |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828235803321 |
Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 | ||
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5000 Years of Geometry : Mathematics in History and Culture / / by Christoph J. Scriba, Peter Schreiber |
Autore | Scriba Christoph J |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel : , : Springer Basel : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (638 p.) |
Disciplina |
510
510.9 516 516.009 |
Soggetto topico |
Geometry
Mathematics History History of Mathematical Sciences |
ISBN | 3-0348-0898-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- 1.The beginnings of geometrical representations and calculations -- 2.Geometry in the Greek-Hellenistic era and late Antiquity -- 3.Oriental and old American geometry -- 4.Geometry in the European Middle Ages -- 5.New impulses for geometry during the Renaissance -- 6.The development of geometry in the 17th/18th centuries -- 7.New paths of geometry in the 19th century -- 8.Geometry in the 20th century -- Appendix: Selection of original texts -- References -- List of Figures -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910299781103321 |
Scriba Christoph J
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Basel : , : Springer Basel : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2015 | ||
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5: Physique / sous la direction scientifique de P. Langevin et J. Perrin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sceaux, : J. Gabay, [1991] |
Descrizione fisica | 4 v. in 1 (64, 96,76,106 col.) ; 18 x 25 cm |
Disciplina |
510
530.15 |
Soggetto topico |
Fisica matematica
Matematica - Enciclopedie e dizionari |
ISBN | 2876471183 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Record Nr. | UNISANNIO-NAP0409752 |
Sceaux, : J. Gabay, [1991] | ||
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6: Géodésie, géophysique / sous la directions scientifique de Ch. Lallemand |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sceaux, : J. Gabay, [1993] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 v. (224, 96 col.) ; 18 x 25 cm |
Disciplina |
510
526 550 |
Soggetto topico |
Matematica - Enciclopedie e dizionari
Geodesia Geofisica |
ISBN | 2876471191 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Record Nr. | UNISANNIO-NAP0409762 |
Sceaux, : J. Gabay, [1993] | ||
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7.1: Astronomie sphérique / sous la directions scientifique de H. Andoyer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sceaux, : J. Gabay, [1993] |
Descrizione fisica | 320 col. ; 18 x 25 cm |
Disciplina |
510
520 |
Soggetto topico | Astronomia |
ISBN | 2876471205 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Record Nr. | UNISANNIO-NAP0409770 |
Sceaux, : J. Gabay, [1993] | ||
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8. Seminaire de theorie du potentiel, Paris / redacteurs F. Hirsch, G. Mokobodzki |
Autore | Seminaire de theorie du potentiel : <8. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin : Springer Verlag, 1987 |
Descrizione fisica | 209 p. ; 24 cm |
Disciplina |
510
519 |
Collana | Lecture notes in mathematics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Atti di convegni
Probabilità |
ISBN | 3540172106 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Record Nr. | UNINA-990002577330403321 |
Seminaire de theorie du potentiel : <8.
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Berlin : Springer Verlag, 1987 | ||
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8: Table des matières. Tribune publique |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sceaux, : J. Gabay, [1993] |
Descrizione fisica | 149 col. ; 18 x 25 cm |
Disciplina | 510 |
Soggetto topico | Matematica - Enciclopedie e dizionari |
ISBN | 2876471213 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Record Nr. | UNISANNIO-NAP0409798 |
Sceaux, : J. Gabay, [1993] | ||
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9. Congres international d'actuaries, Stockholm 16-20 juin 1930. Compte rendus Actuaries |
Autore | CONGRES INTERNATIONAL D'ACTUARIES : <9. ; : 1930 |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Uppsala : Almquist & Wiksell, 1931 |
Descrizione fisica | 4v. ; 24 cm |
Disciplina |
510
519 |
Soggetto non controllato |
Atti di convegni
Matematica attuariale |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Nota di contenuto | 1.: Rapports A-B 2.: Rapports C-E 3.: Rapports F-H 4.: Proces verbaux |
Record Nr. | UNINA-990002579280403321 |
CONGRES INTERNATIONAL D'ACTUARIES : <9. ; : 1930
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Uppsala : Almquist & Wiksell, 1931 | ||
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