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Calculus: A Complete Course / 10th edition
MyLab Mathematics with Pearson eText (Package)
2021 || Paperback || Robert A. Adams e.a. || Pearson
Learn everything you need to know about Calculus and practice your reasoning and practical skills with this high-end textbook.
Calculus: A Complete Course, 10th Edition is the ultimate guide in the field with a well-earned reputation for its accuracy and mathematical rigour.
The textbook provides a reader-friendly language and high-end study material, suitable for a standard semester course that will also help you explore some of the unique topics and approaches in the landscape of Mathematics.
Offering a wide range of exercises to practice and test your learning of the topics, this edition will help you develop your reasoning skills and apply techniques you have learned to concrete situation...
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Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
2024 || Paperback || Matt Parker || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A guide to exploring the world of maths. Starting with simple numbers and algebra, it goes on to deal with inconceivably big numbers in more dimensions than you ever knew existed.
The Art of Statistics
Learning from Data
2020 || Paperback || David Spiegelhalter || Penguin Books Ltd
A statistical national treasure' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2'Required reading for all politicians, journalists, medics and anyone who tries to influence people (or is influenced) by statistics. A tour de force' Popular ScienceDo busier hospitals have higher survival rates? How many trees are there on the planet? Why do old men have big ears? David Spiegelhalter reveals the answers to these and many other questions - questions that can only be addressed using statistical science. Statistics has p...
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Mathematics that Works - analysis Applied - 2
analysis Applied
2018 || Paperback || Maarten de Gee || Epsilon Uitgaven
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...
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Birth of a Theorem
A Mathematical Adventure
2024 || Paperback || Cedric Villani || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
How does a genius see the world? Where and how does inspiration strike? Blending science with history, biography with myth, the author conjures up an inimitable cast: the omnipresent Einstein, mad genius Kurt Godel, and Villani's personal hero, John Nash.
A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics
A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World
2018 || Paperback || Daniel Levitin || Penguin Books Ltd
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.
Daniel Levitin teaches us how to effectively ask oursel...
Linear Algebra with Applications / 5th edition
Pearson New International Edition
2024 || Paperback || Otto Bretscher || Pearson
Offering the most geometric presentation available, Linear Algebra with Applications, Fifth Edition emphasizes linear transformations as a unifying theme. This elegant textbook combines a user-friendly presentation with straightforward, lucid language to clarify and organize the techniques and applications of linear algebra. Exercises and examples make up the heart of the text, with abstract exposition kept to a minimum.
Exercise sets are broad and varied and reflect the author's creativity a...
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Outnumbered
From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles - The Algorithms That Control Our Lives
2024 || Paperback || Sumpter David Sumpter || Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics
2020 || Paperback || Salkind Neil J. Salkind e.a. || SAGE
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What's the Use?
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
2024 || Paperback || Professor Ian Stewart || Profile Books Ltd
A bestselling author tries to rehabilitate a much-maligned field.