Kategoria BISAC: Mathematics >> Recreations & Games

This book provides readers with a deeper understanding of a range of practical and theoretical aspects of opinion polls. There are good and bad polls. The book describes how to separate the chaff from the wheat. It should help non-survey experts, such as journalists, decision makers, political scientists, and politicians, determine the quality of a poll.

Using jargon-free language and many illustrations, the authors--all veteran math educators--explore five areas--arithmetic, algebra, geometry, probability, and the ways in which mathematics can...

The book is aimed to provide teachers with a source of novel and interesting topics to supplement their standard material, and as independent reading for pupils themselves.

It will be helpful to teachers who require interesting and novel topics, beyond the standard syllabus and normal textbook material, for capable pupils.

There are two huge gaps in scientific theory. One, the contradiction between classical and quantum mechanics, is discussed in many publications. The other, the total failure to explain why anything made of atoms (such as ourselves) can be conscious, has little acknowledgement. The main thesis of this book is that to be conscious at all, you need an unconscious mind. The author explores the idea that this mind sometimes makes contact with a whole unknown world, sporadically revealed by paranormal effects, but perhaps discoverable by hitherto uninvented scientific instruments.

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The history of mathematics is filled with major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems. Problems of interest to gamblers led to the modern theory of probability, for example, and surreal numbers were inspired by the game of Go. Yet even with such groundbreaking findings and a wealth of popular-level books, research in recreational mathematics has often been neglected. The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects now returns with a brand-new compilation of fascinating problems and solutions in recreational mathematics.

This latest volume gathers...

In this follow-up to the author's bestselling classic, -The Lady Tasting Tea, - David Salsburg takes a fresh and insightful look at the history of statistical development by examing errors, blunders and outright lies in many different models taken from a variety of fields including economics, biology, physics and sports.

This is a journal about a trip to the edges of the mathematical universe. It is testament to the fact that even the amateur lover of numbers--one both daunted and humbled by the sledgehammer tools of the professional mathematician--can discover new terrains, new patterns and new interconnections. All that's needed is a pen and paper, an inquisitive mind and a modicum of patience--and perhaps a simple spreadsheet to see if a keyhole discovery can be scaled up into something worthy of a conjecture or even a theorem. This book is full of curiosities and conjectures, all the product of idle...