Math Refresher for Adults: The Perfect Solution (Mastering Essential Math Skills)

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The Millennium Problems are totally baffling to those of us who are lay people in this area but the author does try to open up the mysteries in an understandable way to us. The problems include

a professional mathematician. For the truly adventurous, there is even a chapter on unsolved puzzles. Thinking Mathematically Elastic Numbers by Daniel Griller This excellent maths book won the 1983 National Book Award and explains to us what mathematicians are about plus what they do and how they do it. The Mathematical Experience is written with satire and humour giving that human edge to the book, while allowing us non number crunchers into the world of mathematicians we would not otherwise understand. Other academics do not always appreciate the power and splendour of maths, while this book attempts to convert these thinkers into a mathematician's way of thinking. The place a digit holds in a number tells you its value. Hence the term 'place value of digits' in numbers. It’s a system that works for all numbers, no matter how big. Paul Erdos was an eccentric who so obsessed with maths that he travelled all the time living out of a plastic bag until the day he died at the age of eighty three! Erdos had no interest in women, sex, art or even food and didn't know how to cook. Indeed he died a virgin who never had a permanent base. To sum up he had no interest in anything other than numbers which for us mere mortals is something we find hard to understand. Hoffman looks at this man's life from a sympathetic point of view which makes The Man Who Loved Only Numbers a superb read. The Man Who Knew Infinity The purpose of this book is to introduce the basic ideas of mathematical proof to students. The emphasis is on helping the reader in understanding and constructing proofs and writing clear mathematics. This is achieved by exploring set theory, combinatorics and number theory, topics which include many fundamental ideas which are part of the tool kit of any mathematician. This materialIf you'd like to see some book recommendations for younger learners, take a look at the list of books compiled by our Primary team. In this book, Anany and Maria Levitin use many classic brainteasers as well as newer examples from job interviews with major corporations to show readers how to apply analytical thinking to solve puzzles requiring well-defined procedures. The book's unique collection of puzzles is supplemented with carefully developed tutorials on algorithm design strategies and analysis techniques intended to Concepts of Modern Mathematics is another superb edition written by Ian Stewart that looks at Maths with humour and storytelling to explain such topics as topology, subsets, sets, groups, Boolean algebra and much more. Discussions that will get the grey matter working are covered along with great illustrations that break up the text nicely.

Thinking Mathematically is perfect for anyone who wants to develop their powers to think mathematically, whether at school, at university or just out of interest. This book is invaluable for anyone who wishes to promote mathematical thinking in others or for anyone who has always wondered what lies at the core of mathematics. Thinking Mathematically reveals the processes at the heart of Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of maps or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers Each year number of math books are published, but few of them are successful to be loved by mathematicians and students all around the world. Maths is everywhere, often where we don't even realise. Award-winning professor Steven Strogatz acts as our guide as he takes us on a tour of numbers that - unbeknownst to the unitiated - connect pop culture, literature, art, philosophy, current affairs, business and even every day life. In The Joy of X, Strogatz explains the great ideas of maths - from negative numbers to calculus, fat tails Differential calculus provides the basis for developing better skills in these areas and in any field that requires intense analysis on our part. Starting from the definitions of limit and function, differential calculus focuses its study on the derivative, a concept that allows solving problems of optimization and ratios of change.

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The Fabric of the Cosmos is another superb read written by Brian Greene. Some of the biggest questions out there are asked in this book with Greene attempting to bring his theories and answers to the public at large in plain simple speak that even those who know nothing of science and physics are able to enjoy and understand. Topics discussed in the book include The mathematical concept of Chaos was discovered in 1989 and was welcomed but not without some controversy. Today that controversy has diminished somewhat and Does God Play Dice? takes a look at the achievements since the discovery of Chaos along with its potential. Written by Ian Stewart the book includes new practical applications of the theory of chaos such as developing intelligent heart pacemakers. Every year, thousands of students go to university to study mathematics. Many of these students are extremely intelligent and hardworking, but even the best will, at some point, struggle with the demands of making the transition to advanced mathematics. The mathematics shifts in focus from calculation to proof, so students are expected to interact with it in different ways. These changes need

This is the complete guide to exploring the fascinating world of maths you were never told about at school. Stand-up comedian and mathematician Matt Parker uses bizarre Klein Bottles, unimaginably small pizza slices, knots no one can untie and computers built from dominoes to reveal some of the most exotic and fascinating ideas in mathematics. Starting with simple numbers and algebra, this Students who are about to embark on Maths study will find this edition a real help as it offers practical information along with great advice for those starting out on their first year at university. The book doesn’t ramble on in fact it is quite short but what it does contain is a wealth of succinct information for Maths degree students that will stand them in good stead for what they are about to experience and learn. A Concise Introduction to Pure Mathematicsinduction, contradiction and contrapositive - are featured. Concrete examples are used throughout, and you'll get plenty of practice on topics common to many courses such as divisors, Euclidean algorithms, modular arithmetic, equivalence relations, and injectivity and surjectivity of functions. With over 300 exercises to help you test your progress, you'll soon learn how to think like a This book contains 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia, taking us from ancient China to medieval Europe, Victorian England to modern-day Japan, with stories of espionage, mathematical breakthroughs and puzzling rivalries along the way. Some solutions rely on a touch of cunning, others call for creativity, others need mercilessly logical thought. All are guaranteed What lies behind the story of the number "e"? This is the question asked in this fascinating book by Eli Maor. Topics such as the interest earned by the money in your bank account, the way seeds are arranged in a sunflower or the shape of the Gateway Arch in St Louis are all connected by the number "e". Maor charts the history of the number exposing the maths that lies beneath the subject.