Tag: Numbers

September 26, 2023

Numbers and Figures Six Math Conversations Starting from Scratch

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by Travaglini, Giancarlo;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1470472562 | 304 pages | True PDF | 9.08 MB
One of the great charms of mathematics is uncovering unexpected connections. In Numbers and Figures, Giancarlo Travaglini provides six conversations that do exactly that by talking about several topics in elementary number theory and some of their connections to geometry, calculus, and real-life problems such as COVID-19 vaccines or fiscal frauds. Each conversation is in two parts―an introductory essay which provides a gentle introduction to the topic and a second section that delves deeper and requires study by the reader. The topics themselves are extremely appealing and include, for example, Pick’s theorem, Simpson’s paradox, Farey sequences, the Frobenius problem, and Benford’s Law. Numbers and Figures will be a useful resource for college faculty teaching Elementary Number Theory or Calculus. The chapters are largely independent and could make for nice course-ending projects or even lead-ins to high school or undergraduate research projects. The whole book would make for an enjoyable semester-long independent reading course. Faculty will find it entertaining bedtime reading and, last but not least, readers more generally will be interested in this book if they miss the accuracy and imagination found in their high school and college math courses.

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September 26, 2023

Business Analytics Communicating with Numbers, 2nd Edition

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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1265087687 | 801 pages | True PDF | 67.93 MB
Business Analytics: Communicating with Numbers was written from the ground up to prepare students to understand, manage, and visualize the data, apply the appropriate tools, and communicate the findings and their relevance. Unlike other texts that simply repackage statistics and traditional operations research topics, this text seamlessly threads the topics of data wrangling, descriptive analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics into a cohesive whole. It provides a holistic analytics process, including dealing with real life data that are not necessarily ‘clean’ and/or ‘small’ and stresses the importance of effectively communicating findings by including features such as a synopsis (a short writing sample) and a sample report (a longer writing sample) in every chapter. These features help students develop skills in articulating the business value of analytics by communicating insights gained from a non-technical standpoint.

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September 20, 2023

The Joy of Numbers

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English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09V1TRMLF | M4B@125 kbps | 5h 2m | 275 Mb
Numbers. Like the alphabet, they’re one of the most elementary of concepts learned and memorized at a young age; but outside of figuring out tips and taxes, you probably haven’t given much thought to them since then. To a mathematician, every number has its own unique properties and personality – and when studied, played with, and manipulated, numbers can actually be tons of fun.
Learn to appreciate the wonder and awe of numbers as you count up through the sequence with renowned "mathemagician" Arthur T. Benjamin. You’ll start with the original zero, lucky number seven, and the fabulous Fibonacci numbers and work your way through to irrational numbers, pi, and the awesome number infinity. While on this entertaining, humorous, and insightful journey, you’ll pick up some amazing tips and tricks that will allow you to solve complex math problems in your head, take advantage of the odds, and understand God’s Equation…plus, so much more.

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September 16, 2023

Martin Gardner The Magic and Mystery of Numbers [Audiobook]

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Free Download Martin Gardner: The Magic and Mystery of Numbers (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B085WB5FTL | 2020 | 7 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 387 MB
Author: Scientific American
Narrator: Kate Mulligan
How many people achieve a cult following because of their writing in mathematics? Only a handful, and Martin Gardner is among the most well-known and well-loved. Not only did he present a notoriously difficult subject in an engaging and accessible way, but in doing so, he attracted an incredibly broad readership. His correspondents ranged from academics like Roger Penrose and John Horton Conway to artists MC Escher and Salvador Dali to writer Isaac Asimov. His "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American ran nearly every month for 26 years and was one of the most popular in the magazine’s history. In this anthology, we strove to create a new "slice" through his wealth of material. Here, we focus on all flavors of numbers, from common integers and negative numbers to figurate numbers and the exotic random number Omega, which can be described but not computed. Some of these columns are less well-known, but they are no less fun. In true Gardner fashion, they leap from magic and games – as well as art, music, and literature – to flashes of deep mathematical insight. We hope that they will prove as inspirational now as they did to earlier audiences.

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