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The secret lives of numbers : a hidden history of math's unsung trailblazers / by Kitagawa, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)897133; Revell, Timothy,author.(CARDINAL)628997;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index.In the beginning -- The turtle and the emperor -- A town called Alex -- The dawn of time -- On the origin(s) of zero -- The house of wisdom -- The impossible dream -- The (first) calculus pioneers -- Newtonianism for ladies -- A grand synthesis -- The mathematical mermaid -- Revolutions -- = -- Mapping the stars -- Number-crunching.Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong--warped like the sixteenth-century map that enlarged Europe at the expense of Africa, Asia and the Americas. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, renowned math historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell make the case that the history of math is infinitely deeper, broader, and richer than the narrative we think we know.
Subjects: Informational works.; Mathematicians; Mathematics; Mathematicians;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 17
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Understanding numbers : simplify life's mathematics, decode the world around you / by Freiberger, Marianne,author.; Thomas, Rachel(Mathematician),author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Mathematics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Men of mathematics / by Bell, Eric Temple,1883-1960.(CARDINAL)122319;
Subjects: Mathematicians.; Mathematics;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Proof : the art and science of certainty / by Kucharski, Adam(Mathematician),author.(CARDINAL)411740;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-342) and index.The national axioms -- Logic makes mathematical monsters -- One hundred guilty and one innocent -- Tasting statistical tea and brewing scientific beer -- Paradigm rifts -- Big lies -- In machines we trust -- How much do we lose?"An award-winning mathematician shows how we prove what's true, and what to do when we can't. How do we establish what we believe? And how can we be certain that what we believe is true? And how do we convince other people that it is true? For thousands of years, from the ancient Greeks to the Arabic golden age to the modern world, science has used different methods--logical, empirical, intuitive, and more--to separate fact from fiction. But it all had the same goal: find perfect evidence and be rewarded with universal truth. As mathematician Adam Kucharski shows, however, there is far more to proof than axioms, theories, and laws: when demonstrating that a new medical treatment works, persuading a jury of someone's guilt, or deciding whether you trust a self-driving car, the weighing up of evidence is far from simple. To discover proof, we must reach into a thicket of errors and biases and embrace uncertainty--and never more so than when existing methods fail. Spanning mathematics, science, politics, philosophy, and economics, this book offers the ultimate exploration of how we can find our way to proof--and, just as importantly, of how to go forward when supposed facts falter"--
Subjects: Proof theory; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical; Belief and doubt; Uncertainty; Errors, Scientific;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 11
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Love triangle : how trigonometry shapes the world / by Parker, Matt(Mathematician),author.(CARDINAL)617310;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Going the distance -- A new angle -- Laws and orders -- Meshing about -- Well fit -- Where do shapes come from? -- Getting triggy with it -- Where on Earth? -- But is it art? -- Making waves -- Conclusion."Trigonometry is perhaps the most essential concept humans have ever devised. The simple yet versatile triangle allows us to record music, map the world, launch rockets into space, and be slightly less bad at pool. Triangles underpin our day-to-day lives and civilization as we know it. Matt Parker argues we should all show a lot more love for triangles, along with all the useful trigonometry and geometry they enable. To prove his point, he uses triangles to create his own digital avatar, survive a harrowing motorcycle ride, cut a sandwich, fall in love, measure tall buildings in a few awkward bounds, and make some unusual art. Along the way, he tells extraordinary and entertaining stories of the mathematicians, engineers, and philosophers--starting with Pythagoras--who dared to take triangles seriously."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Triangle; Trigonometry; Mathematics and civilization;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 20
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The mathematician's mind : the psychology of invention in the mathematical field / by Hadamard, Jacques,1865-1963.(CARDINAL)736328;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Mathematicians; Mathematics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A doubter's almanac : a novel / by Canin, Ethan.(CARDINAL)764220;
"Milo Andret, the genius who solved the Malosz Conjecture and won the Fields Medal for mathematics, had an unusual, even eerie mind from birth, but not until he moves to Berkeley in the 1970s to pursue a ph.D. does he realize the extent of his singular talents. From the drug-soaked enclaves of beatnik California to the verdant lawns of Princeton University, from turbo-charged Wall Street to the quiet woods of Michigan, his reputation as one of the century's most brilliant thinkers forms the backbone of a sweeping, epic story about family, love, passion, and Milo's fraught relationship with his son. With magnificent prose and enormous storytelling magic, Ethan Canin gives us a suspenseful, original novel about the nature of genius, and a son's quest to understand the mystery of his father's life, and its legacy in his own"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Fiction.; Mathematicians; Genius;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Math and mathematicians : the history of math discoveries around the world / by Bruno, Leonard C.(CARDINAL)148577; Baker, Lawrence W.(CARDINAL)644600;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.v. 1. A-H -- v. 2. I-Z -- v. 3. [without special title] -- v. 4. [without special title]Vols. 1-2: compilation of fifty biographies of mathematicians from throughout history and approximately thirty-five articles describing math concepts and principles.
Subjects: Biographies.; Encyclopedias.; Mathematicians; Mathematicians; Mathematicians; Mathematics; Mathematics; Mathematics; Mathematics;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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The greatest mathematician : Archimedes and his eureka! moment / by Hightower, Paul(Paul W.)(CARDINAL)637925;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-125) and index.Life in Syracuse -- Archimedes as mathematician -- Hiero's gold crown -- On the equilibrium of planes -- Other inventions -- The sack of Syracuse -- Archimedes through history -- Archimedes today -- Activities -- Chronology -- Works of Archimedes.A biography of ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes, who invented the compound pulley and other machines. His contributions to mathematics included devising the formulas for the surface and volume of a sphere.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Archimedes; Mathematicians; Mathematicians;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Things to make and do in the fourth dimension : a mathematician's journey through narcissistic numbers, optimal dating algorithms, at least two kinds of infinity, and more / by Parker, Matt(Mathematician),author.(CARDINAL)617310;
The zeroth chapter -- Can you digit? -- Making shapes -- Be there and be square -- Shape shifting -- Shapes : now in 4D -- Pack it up, pack it in -- Prime time -- Knot a problem -- Just for graphs -- The fourth dimension -- The algorithm method -- How to build a computer -- Number mash-ups -- Ridiculous shapes -- Higher dimensions -- Good data die hard -- ridiculous numbers -- To infinity and beyond -- The subsequent chapter -- The answers at the back of the book."Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. Part of the problem may be the way the subject is taught, but it's also true that we all, to a greater or lesser extent, find math difficult and counterintuitive. This counterintuitiveness is actually part of the point, argues Parker: the extraordinary thing about math is that it allows us to access logic and ideas beyond what our brains can instinctively do--through its logical tools we are able to reach beyond our innate abilities and grasp more and more abstract concepts. In the absorbing and exhilarating Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension, Parker sets out to convince his readers to revisit the very math that put them off the subject as fourteen-year-olds. Starting with the foundations of math familiar from school (numbers, geometry, and algebra), he reveals how it is possible to climb all the way up to the topology and to four-dimensional shapes, and from there to infinity--and slightly beyond. Both playful and sophisticated, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension is filled with captivating games and puzzles, a buffet of optional hands-on activities that entices us to take pleasure in math that is normally only available to those studying at a university level. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension invites us to re-learn much of what we missed in school and, this time, to be utterly enthralled by it." -- Publisher's description.
Subjects: Humor.; Puzzles and games.; Mathematics; Mathematics;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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