In 'Wie is er bang voor wiskunde?' laat Soto y Koelemeijer zien dat wiskunde een bloeiende en veelzijdige wetenschap is, met vele raakvlakken met andere disciplines. Zo gebruikt hij in een van de hoofdstukken de aard van het wiskundig bewijs om te illustreren hoe wiskunde in de loop der eeuwen is veranderd. In een ander deel wordt het levensverhaal opgetekend van Terence Tao, de 'Mozart of Math'. Zijn werk heeft het menselijk denken blijvend beïnvloed. Zelfs dit genie zegt dat hard werken be...

From ancient times, mathematics has developed side-by-side with physics; only in the last two hundred years they came apart as different branches of science. Extensive use of mathematics in other sciences, such as biology, chemistry, economics, pharmacology, environmental and social sciences is even more recent. Nowadays, knowledge of mathematical techniques is indispensable also for students and researchers in these fields.

The series of textbooks “Mathematics that Works” presents mathem...

Beroemde meetkundeproblemen uit de tijd van de Griekse wiskunde zijn de driedeling van een hoek, de verdubbeling van de kubus en de kwadratuur van de cirkel met passer en liniaal. Ruim twee duizend jaar hebben wiskundigen, zowel professionals als amateurs, zich tot het uiterste ingespannen om ze op te lossen. Pas in de negentiende eeuw heeft men de instrumenten in handen gekregen om de principiële onmogelijkheid van deze klassieke constructies aan te tonen. Dat was het geval toen de abstract...

Mathematics education is a mess. In primary education the development in arithmetic, geometry and other math topics is greatly hindered.

Mathematicians are trained for abstraction while education is an empirical issue. When mathematicians meet in class with real live pupils then they solve their cognitive dissonance by holding on to tradition. But tradition and its study materials have not been designed for empirical didactics. Pupils suffer the consequences.

The West reads from left to right...

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A guide to critical thinking in the 'post-truth' era, from the author of Sunday Times best-seller The Organized Mind We live in a world of information overload. Facts and figures on absolutely everything are at our fingertips, but are too often biased, distorted, or outright lies. From unemployment figures to voting polls, IQ tests to divorce rates, we're bombarded by seemingly plausible statistics on how people live and what they think.

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Finite Element Modeling and Simulation with ANSYS Workbench 18, Second Edition, combines finite element theory with real-world practice. Providing an introduction to finite element modeling and analysis for those with no prior experience, and written by authors with a combined experience of 30 years teaching the subject, this text presents FEM formulations integrated with relevant hands-on instructions for using ANSYS Workbench 18. Incorporating the basic theories of FEA, simulation case stud...

The author's goal for the book is that it's clearly written, could be read by a calculus student and would motivate them to engage in the material and learn more. Moreover, to create a text in which exposition, graphics, and layout would work together to enhance all facets of a student's calculus experience. They paid special attention to certain aspects of the text:1.

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