Beautiful, Simple, Exact, Crazy Mathematics in the Real World
ISBN: PB: 9780300190892, Yale University Press, November 2015
480 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 72 black&white illus.
In this vibrant work, which is ideal for both teaching and learning, Apoorva Khare and Anna Lachowska explain the mathematics essential for understanding and appreciating our quantitative world. They show with examples that mathematics is a key tool...
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16.99 GBP
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Theory That Would Not Die How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
ISBN: PB: 9780300188226, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23,1x15,5 cm
Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, "The Theory That Would Not Die" is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest scientific controversies of all time. Bay...
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12.99 GBP
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California Dreaming Reforming Mathematics Education
ISBN: PB: 9780300183085, Yale University Press, November 2011
320 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, black&white illus.
This compelling book tells the history of the past two decades of efforts to reform mathematics education in California. That history is a contentious one, full of such fervor and heat that participants and observers often refer to the "math wars". S...
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22.50 GBP
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