How does Google know what you want to type? How did humans first reach the moon? Could we ever have a supercomputer the size of a pinhead?
In this thrilling numerical journey, Hugh Barker explores how mathematics has helped to build the technology of today, and the fascinating ways it is shaping the future. From green…
From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers – what the secret world can teach us about performance and creativity
How do you hire smart people who can work together to prevent terrorist attacks and decode encrypted technology?
How do you come up with…
How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such a large airport? Where should we look for elusive serial killers? The answers lie in the crucial connection between maps and maths.
In Mapmatics, Dr Paulina Rowinska embarks on a fascinating journey to…
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?
Counting is an innovative, erudite, world-wrapping journey through humanity’s marvellous ability to impose numbers on things.…
’What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.’Inazo Nitobe’s book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of the Warrior, argues that the philosophy of Bushido is the true key to understanding ’the soul of…
Boken är tänkt att ge nödvändiga grunder inom mekanik och hållfasthet för studenter, elever och yrkesverksamma inom teknik. Den är strukturerad i tre huvudsektioner: teoretiska grunder, genomarbetade exempellösningar och praktiska övningar, med över 200 övningsuppgifter för att öva och utveckla problemlösningsförmåga…
Kan statistik verkligen vara intressant och lätt att förstå? Svaret är ja! Denna bok bryter ned de komplexa principerna för statistisk analys och gör dem tillgängliga för alla. Så oavsett om du är student, forskare eller bara nyfiken på statistik, kommer du att finna värdefull vägledning här.
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This book aims at an elementary introduction to phenomenologically based inempirical research.Here we will present the origin of the phenomenological thinking in the broad field of the foundations of mathematics and to give a brief picture of its development to our days. Its applications in several fields of science…
This is a clarification of and development upon my previous work. It includes a rework of ”Concerning the weakest coherent formalization of methodological skepticism as a Bayesian updater” and ”On the finitist Wolfram physics model”, then there is an outline of finite content theory and…
The Instant New York Times Bestseller
”Engaging and entertaining a glimpse of the economy of the future.” -Tim Wu, New York Times Book Review
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk-and the players raising the stakes
In the…
A new quantum theory is presented here, against the shortcomings of the old, in a few pages. Actually, it is strange that no one has done this before, think the author.
Everyone knows that new facts about our world, both in macro and micro cosmos, has rained on us the last few decades.
This answer to Einstein’s …
From the UK’s ’statistical national treasure’, a clever and data-driven guide to how we can live with risk and uncertainty
We live in a world where uncertainty is inevitable. How should we deal with what we don’t know? And what role do chance, luck and coincidence play in our lives?
David…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024
’Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics, but with an invigorating sense of greater purchase on the world’ OLIVER BURKEMAN
Thomas Bayes was an…
Matte Direkt Triumf 3B läxbok innehåller uppgifter som repeterar och befäster elevbokens innehåll. Läxboken består av 15 läxor, tre till varje kapitel, där varje läxa ligger på ett uppslag. I slutet av varje läxa finns en uppgift som kan vara mer utmanande samt en självskattande övning. Sist i läxboken finns…
Denna bok behandlar grunderna i differential- och integralkalkyl för funktioner av en variabel. Den innehåller också en introduktion till de komplexa talen. Framställningen är rik på exempel som visar hur man använder de teoretiska resultaten vid konkret problemlösning. Många tillämpningar inom teknik och…
A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR
’Anaximander is a delight and so is this book’ — James McConnachie, Sunday TimesNow widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli’s first book: the thrilling story of a little-known man who created one of the greatest intellectual revolutions
Over…