Beyond Numeracy: Ruminations of a Numbers ManFrom the author of the national bestseller Innumeracy, a delightful exploration of the beauty and fascination of mathematics. Entries range from algebra, coincidence, game theory, non-Euclidean geometry, calculus, and probability theory to such new areas of mathematics as chaos, fractals, recursion, and complexity in this accessible work. 47 drawings.election. |
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... operation and the other basic operation discussed , finding the rate of change or derivative of one quantity with respect to another , are actually inverse operations ; they undo each other's effects . The theorem and the techniques ...
... operation and the other basic operation discussed , finding the rate of change or derivative of one quantity with respect to another , are actually inverse operations ; they undo each other's effects . The theorem and the techniques ...
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... operation on these objects is like addition on numbers except that when a sum exceeds 11 , it is replaced by its ... operations are all groups , but I'll defer the general definition a bit longer to demonstrate that groups needn't ...
... operation on these objects is like addition on numbers except that when a sum exceeds 11 , it is replaced by its ... operations are all groups , but I'll defer the general definition a bit longer to demonstrate that groups needn't ...
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... operation , * , satisfy the four properties above : The product of any two permutations is another permutation ; how we write ... operations are termed isomorphic . ) Groups also arise in knot theory and are helpful in the analysis and ...
... operation , * , satisfy the four properties above : The product of any two permutations is another permutation ; how we write ... operations are termed isomorphic . ) Groups also arise in knot theory and are helpful in the analysis and ...
Contents
A Mathematical Accent | 5 |
Areas and Volumes | 18 |
Binary Numbers and Codes | 24 |
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