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Origami Design Secrets: Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art

27 reviews
Robert J. Lang

AK Peters, 2003

Lang's Masterpiece
Let me begin by saying that this book is not for beginners. It is geared to those who have enough experience in the art to have developed the designer's bug. Having said this, the diagrammed models alone are worth the price of the book. It includes Dr. Lang's fantastic 'Tree Frog'. But the beauty of this book is that not only does he show you how to fold the frog, but he also shows you how he ...

One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale

27 reviews
Demi

Scholastic, 1997

One of the best books for early childhood
Have seen hundreds, maybe thousands of books for early childhood. Saw this book in only one classroom. This is a great book for grades 1-4. Wonderful lesson, wonderful story. Not religious, but a little folk tale. A lot of the folk tales from India and Africa have some religious lesson, this is purely human. Great math lesson also. Surprise even the teacher. Do get for the classroom, or for your ...

Calculus: A New Horizon (Combined Edition: Text, Student Resource Manual and EGrade Learning Guide)

21 reviews
Howard Anton

John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1998

Excellent Calculus Book for "Normal" People
To add a bit more information to the raw data of these reviews, I've mapped the universe of all possible readers of this book onto a set of x-y axes. Let the x-axis run from "non-Math-types" up through "Math-types." Let they y-axis go from "non-geniuses" up through "geniuses:" - Quadrant I: genius Math-types will probably be both irritated and bored with this book. Their irritation will ...

An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements

25 reviews
John R. Taylor

University Science Books, 1996

A great introductory text
This is a great introduction to error propagation and statistical analysis in general, and to least-squares fitting of a straight line to a set of data in particular. It is clear, and guides the reader step-by-step to a full understanding, first in a largely non-mathematical way, then gradually using simple calculus. Perhaps it moves too slowly for some readers, but this relaxed speed makes the ...

Journey through Genius: Great Theorems of Mathematics

77 reviews
William Dunham

Wiley, 1990

Entertaining and Enlightening!
I am a senior in college, majoring in Mathematics Education. Last semester, I had to take a Math History class. Before I started the class, I read Journey Through Genius (I chewed through it on my off-time). The book required for my class ended up being Math Through the Ages. It did not take me long to realize that my teacher had made a terrible choice in texts. Ages is terribly disjointed ...

Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset, Second Edition

25 reviews
Aswath Damodaran

Wiley, 2002

Comprehensive View of Investment Valuation
An overall excellnet text on valuing any asset. The author does a wonderful job of highighting the only 3 rational ways to value any asset: discounted cash flows, relative valuation, and the options pricing model. This book may help you consider the value of assets using all 3 methods to arrive at a true valuation for your purchase or divestment. A must have for anyone who values assests.

A Mathematician's Apology (Canto)

28 reviews
G. H. Hardy

Cambridge University Press, 1992

This is a book which should be read by all college students
Hardy was a giant among early 20th century mathematicians. It is difficult to overstate his importance. He was one of the first to show that mathematics is as much art as science without having to have interpretation (such as Dunham's "Journey Through Genius..."). This is what makes this book so poignant. Hardy realizes that he no longer is Hardy. In today's mathematics world that may not ...

Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics

24 reviews
Frederick W. Byron, Robert W. Fuller

Dover Publications, 1992

Great Physical Mathematics
Great mathematical physics book. I bought it as a supplement text for a mathematical physics course as well as help in quantum physics course. Got me through a lot of Quantum homeworks. I still use this book as a reference for math and physics concepts. The ordering of the book is a little weird and skips the some of the basic concepts in linear algebra but explores a wide variety of other ...

Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (Introducing Statistical Methods S.) (2nd Edition)

80 reviews
Andy Field

Sage Publications Ltd, 2005

Outstanding Book
I've now endured one of the most miserable courses I've ever taken - a course on statistics. That course was consistent with what one might expect to exemplify typical stats courses everywhere - dry, boring, and no regard whatsoever for those who really want to know about the subject but have limited backgrounds. The primary text we used for that course was literally one of the worst I've ever ...

The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

22 reviews
Isaac Newton

University of California Press, 1999

A time of Science and Philosophy together
From Kenneth Ellman, Newton, New Jersey 07860, ke@kennethellman.com "I hope that, decades from now, when I and my other books have been forgotten, this will still be useful to scholars and students". So spoke Harvard University Professor I. Bernard Cohen some years before his death in 2003. His co-translator Anne Whitman had died in 1984. The translation and the extraordinary commentary is 974 ...

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science (Vol 1)

19 reviews
E. T. Jaynes

Cambridge University Press, 2003

unbelievably charming and intelligent
Jaynes' book is a deep and opinionated exposition of probability theory and Baysean reasoning -- with detours into the nature of inductive reasoning, and a non-trivial investigation of scientific epistemology. The prose style is stunningly good -- by any standard, not just the low bar set by mathematical texts -- and the exposition is both rigorous and philosophically provocative. I'm a ...

Chaos Theory Tamed

16 reviews
Garnett Williams

CRC Press, 1997

Brilliant
Garnett Williams is my hero. He takes what seems like a complicated topic and makes it seem simple. Williams never assumes anything about the reader's prior understanding of any topic - he patiently and carefully explains what you need to know to understand his point. He reiterates, summarizes and gives examples so that even when you are occaisionally feeling like you might get lost, he reels ...

Mathematica Navigator, Second Edition: Mathematics, Statistics, and Graphics

17 reviews
Heikki Ruskeepaa

Academic Press, 2004

excellent book for wolfram mathematica
I work as a assitant on a Faculty of electrical engeenering. Before I heard for mathematica I used matlab for simulations and calculations, but, after first little course in mathematica i totaly forgot for matlab. Everything I know about mathematica i leart from this book. In this book you have everything...from elementary calculus, differential equations, statistics, ploting (2D, 3D, ...

Mathematical Analysis

18 reviews
Tom M. Apostol

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1977

One of the best I own...
I own books on mathematical analysis by Browder (0387946144), Douglas S Bridges (0387982396 ), Haaser Sullivan (0486665097), Pfaffenberger(0486421740), Dudley (0521007542),Abbot(0387950605) and Apostol. All books cover abstract multivariable spaces, except Abbott who limits himself to the real line. None of these books are perfect, but of all these books Apostol is the one I prefer for the ...

Introductory Physics with Algebra as a Second Language: Mastering Problem-Solving

18 reviews
Stuart E. Loucks

Wiley, 2006

Well organized and is a great overview
Each section gives a problem as an example and gives you step by step methods of how to approach and solve a problem. There are some sections that focus only on how to setup problems, but most are integrated within the examples given. It is a very useful tool to use when trying to break down tough questions. The hardest obstacle, when given a problem, is determining the physics and setup ...

Estimation and use of the inverse hyperbolic sine transformation to model nonnormal correlated random ...

16 reviews
Octavio A Ramírez

Food and Resource Economics Dept., Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, 1992

Excellent book!!
One of my friends bought the big version that had a little more information in it. I read it and when I saw that you could buy a pocket version I was thrilled! Wisemen gives an informative description of everything you need to survive almost anywhere. I'm confident that if I were in a survival situation I would be able to survive.

The Sudoku Code: 200 Sudoku Puzzles. One Answer. Can You Find It?

18 reviews
Frank Longo

Sterling, 2006

Beware....this is addicting!!
As a Sudoku enthusiast I have a hard time finding interesting Sudoku books. The square grids have become a bit boring so I went on to the variations (circles, snakes, mazes, etc). So when I saw the grids in this book I fully intended it to be one of "those" books that you pick up here and there to work on a puzzle. But no, I too was consumed. It was like reading a book where you couldn't put it ...

The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube

19 reviews
James G. Nourse

Bantam Books (Mm), 1981

Got This Book As A Kid in the 80's - Solved The Cube in Under 30 seconds
I know some reviewers are saying this isn't the fastest solution to the cube or the one with the least amount of steps. As an 11 yr old in 1981, I bought this book and memorized the steps. Within a few weeks I could solve the cube in under a minute consistently. My very best time was just under 30 seconds. Don't listen to the nay-sayers! This is a great book! The steps and algorithms are ...

Calculus (College Review Series)

16 reviews
Elliot Gootman Ph.D.

Barron's Educational Series, 1997

Absolutely a fantastic general review
This book doesn't cover all there is to cover in Calculus 1. It can't, it's too tiny. But what it does do it take you through the logic of increasingly abstract concepts. I found this enormously helpful beyond just helping me understand the concepts (though it did so admirably). I found that this careful progression helped me formalize my own thought process, helped me get more logical. ...

Optimization in Operations Research

17 reviews
Ronald L. Rardin

Prentice Hall, 1997

Good operations research book
This book presents the subjects in a different and novel way which provides many new insights. In it, there is a great concern with the practical, professional use of operations research, as can be easily seen in the modeling examples. This book could be named "Optimization theory with realistic applications". This book certainly enables the students to apply the theory learned in practical ...

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