Mathematics
Discover top mathematics books, including the best textbooks, workbooks, and advanced engineering mathematics guides. Find essential mathematics dictionaries and the best books to learn math.
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Partial Differential Equations of Parabolic TypeThis accessible and self-contained treatment provides even readers previously unacquainted with parabolic and elliptic equations with sufficient background to understand research literature. Author Avner Friedman -- Director of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at The Ohio State University -- offers a systematic and thorough approach...
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The Number SystemThe teaching of mathematics has undergone extensive changes in approach, with a shift in emphasis from rote memorization to acquiring an understanding of the logical foundations and methodology of problem solving. This book offers guidance in that direction, exploring arithmetic's underlying concepts and their...
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Calculus and StatisticsSelf-contained and suitable for undergraduate students, this text offers a working knowledge of calculus and statistics. It assumes only a familiarity with basic analytic geometry, presenting a coordinated study that develops the interrelationships between calculus, probability, and statistics.Starting with the basic concepts of function...
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Algebraic GeometryThis text for advanced undergraduate students is both an introduction to algebraic geometry and a bridge between its two parts -- the analytical-topological and the algebraic. Because of its extensive use of formal power series (power series without convergency), the treatment will appeal to...
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Gauge Theory and Variational PrinciplesThis text provides a framework for describing and organizing the basic forces of nature and the interactions of subatomic particles. A detailed and self-contained mathematical account of gauge theory, it is geared toward beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates in mathematics and physics. This...
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Applied Multivariate AnalysisGeared toward upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, this two-part treatment deals with the foundations of multivariate analysis as well as related models and applications. Starting with a look at practical elements of matrix theory, the text proceeds to discussions of continuous multivariate distributions, the...
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The Riemann Zeta-Function: Theory and ApplicationsA thorough and easily accessible account. -- MathSciNet, Mathematical Reviews on the Web, American Mathematical Society. This extensive survey presents a comprehensive and coherent account of Riemann zeta-function theory and applications. Starting with elementary theory, it examines exponential integrals and exponential sums, the Voronoi...
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Sequences, Combinations, LimitsIn a departure from traditional teaching methods, this text focuses on theory more than computations, relying on independent study. Its material is geared toward aspects of high-school mathematics that promise to prove particularly useful for future studies and work. The first of three chapters...
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Mathematics and the ImaginationYou don't have to love math to enjoy a hand of cards, a night at the casino, or a puzzle. But your pleasure and prowess at games, gambling, and other numerically related pursuits can be heightened with this entertaining volume, in which the authors...
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The World of Mathematics, Vol. 4: Volume 4Vol. 4 of a monumental 4-volume set covers such topics as mathematical machines, mathematics in warfare, a mathematical theory of art, mathematics of the good, mathematics in literature, mathematics and music, and amusements, puzzles, and fancies. Individual contributions by A. M. Turing, Aldous Huxley,...
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Lewis Carroll's Games and PuzzlesWidely known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other books for children, Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson) also excelled as a mathematician and inventor of puzzles. Toward the end of his life, Carroll worked on a book of mathematical puzzles and...
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The Math Chef: Over 60 Math Activities and Recipes for KidsJust as cookies go with milk and peanut butter goes with jelly, math and cooking go hand in hand. This fun-filled book shows youexactly how. With more than 60 activities and recipes to try, you can practicemath while you cook Get a handle on...
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Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and InterpretationWritten by two leading experts on experimental methods, this concise text covers the major aspects of experiment design, analysis, and interpretation in clear language. Students learn how to design randomized experiments, analyze the data, and interpret the findings. Beyond the authoritative coverage of the...
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The Book of NumbersJohn Horton Conway is a world famous professor of mathematics at Princeton University, and inventor of The Game of Life. Previous books include On Numbers and Games, and Sphere Packing, Lattices and Groups. Richard K. Guy is professor emeritus of mathematics at the University...
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Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetic & Algebra in Elementary SchoolIn Children's Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction, Thomas Carpenter, Megan Franke, and Linda Levi helped hundreds of thousands of teachers understand children's intuitive problem-solving and computational processes and how to use that knowledge to enhance students' understanding of arithmetic. In Thinking Mathematically, the same author...
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Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and BeingJohn D. Barrow's Pi in the Sky is a profound -- and profoundly different -- exploration of the world of mathematics: where it comes from, what it is, and where it's going to take us if we follow it to the limit in our...
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Fractal Worlds: Grown, Built, and ImaginedFractal geometry is a uniquely fascinating area of mathematics, exhibited in a range of shapes that exist in the natural world, from a simple broccoli floret to a majestic mountain range. In this essential primer, mathematician Michael Frame--a close collaborator with Benoit Mandelbrot, the...
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How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical IndividualLong before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers," American capitalism embraced "risk"--and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predicting their fates, and intervening in their futures. Emanating...
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Introduction To Commutative AlgebraThis book grew out of a course of lectures given to third year undergraduates at Oxford University and it has the modest aim of producing a rapid introduction to the subject. It is designed to be read by students who have had a first...
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Algorithmic PuzzlesWhile many think of algorithms as specific to computer science, at its core algorithmic thinking is defined by the use of analytical logic to solve problems. This logic extends far beyond the realm of computer science and into the wide and entertaining world of...
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