Author : Owen O'Shea
Publisher : MAA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780883855577
Numerical curiosities ranging from coincidences and the first moon walk, to proposition bets involving dice and cards.
Author : Sidney Rosen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1497632145
This “enjoyable” biography of the brilliant astronomer will intrigue young people who are “bored with the textbook approach to science” (The New York Times Book Review). Sixteenth century Italy produced Galileo, a genius who marked the world with his studies and hypotheses about mathematical, physical, and astronomical truths. His father, musician Vincenzio Galilei said, “Truth is not found behind a man’s reputation. Truth appears only when the answers to questions are searched out by a free mind. This is not the easy path in life but it is the most rewarding.” Galileo challenged divine law and the physics of Aristotle, and questioned everything in search of truths. And it was through this quest for truth that he was able to establish a structure for modern science.
Author : John Davis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 2007-01-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470821876
A key challenge sales professionals confront is how to measure the various activities they perform in the sales planning, selling and execution, and post-sales review phases of the customer relationship. Magic Numbers for Sales Management: Key Measures to Evaluate Sales Success is a ready-reference for sales and marketing professionals who seek clear descriptions of over 50 of the most important sales metrics and formulas. Using clear descriptions and relevant examples from many of today’s leading companies, sales and marketing professionals will learn relevant measurement and evaluation techniques, including: Important metrics for measuring market conditions, sales forecasting, compensation, quotas, sales force-size, pricing, and customers Applying metrics to different phases of the selling process Key behaviors of the most successful sales people Magic Numbers for Sales Management is an important resource for the most demanding sales professionals who want to fully assess the success of their selling activities.
Author : Hugh Bucknall
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470821612
This book simply outlines a range of the key measures that any HR , financial or business manager can use to address this situation in a more business-like manner. For each definition, there is not only a description of the measure but also why it has vital significance to managing business better. It is written as a basic text book in easy to read language but with a powerful underlying message - HR managers must measure the main features of HR in order to get their voice heard at the executive table and make demonstrable impact on business operations.
Author : James R. Doty, MD
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0698404025
The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.
Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1847651283
School maths is not the interesting part. The real fun is elsewhere. Like a magpie, Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening, entertaining and vexing 'curiosities' of maths over the years... Now, the private collection is displayed in his cabinet. There are some hidden gems of logic, geometry and probability -- like how to extract a cherry from a cocktail glass (harder than you think), a pop up dodecahedron, the real reason why you can't divide anything by zero and some tips for making money by proving the obvious. Scattered among these are keys to unlocking the mysteries of Fermat's last theorem, the Poincaré Conjecture, chaos theory, and the P/NP problem for which a million dollar prize is on offer. There are beguiling secrets about familiar names like Pythagoras or prime numbers, as well as anecdotes about great mathematicians. Pull out the drawers of the Professor's cabinet and who knows what could happen...
Author : Hoffmann (Professor)
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Magic tricks
ISBN :
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 147046361X
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This volume is a collection of Irving Joshua Matrix columns published in the magazine from 1960-1980. There were several collections of Dr. Matrix, the first in 1967; they were revised as Gardner reconnected with the good doctor over the years. This is the 1985 Prometheus Books edition and contains all the Dr. Matrix columns from the magazine.
Author : Professor Hoffmann
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
"Modern Magic" is a treatise in book form, detailing the apparatus, methods and tricks used by the magicians and conjurors. It was the first book in the English language to really explain how to perform magical feats. The treatise contains advice on the appearance, the dress and the staging of a magician. It then goes on to describe many tricks with playing cards, coins, watches, rings, handkerchiefs, dominoes, dice, cups, balls and hats, and concludes with a long chapter of miscellaneous tricks, including magic with strings, gloves, eggs, rice and some utility devices. The penultimate chapter describes large stage illusions, and the final chapter contains advice on routining a magic show, as well as more advice on staging.
Author : Kathleen P. King
Publisher : IAP
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1617353353
This book is provided as a guide, encouragement and handbook for faculty to introduce digital media in language you can understand and provide strategies and activities you can quickly assimilate into your teaching. We are excited that more people will be able to benefit from the powerful help and guidance contained in this book. We are even more exhilarated as we anticipate how each of you will discover applications and new directions we would never anticipate, and look forward. We look forward to your innovations as you use the material you discover here. This book responds to the needs of our changing world and students by revealing innovative technology applications and how faculty are and can use digital media in teaching in higher education because faculty make the quickest changes and learn how to do it best. It is a valuable resource for faculty from faculty, because it allows the sharing of successful teaching experiences with digital media with our worldwide colleagues so they may modify it, extend it, and improve it. Moreover, in our work with faculty across all disciplines, we also find that many struggle to think about teaching in ways in which they can incorporate technology meaningfully. While we might be experts in our discipline (chemistry, philosophy, music, etc) due to the curriculum of terminal degrees, we might not have strong preparation in instructional design. We have been fortunate to bring together faculty experts across different disciplines to specifically speak about how and why to use digital media in higher education settings. We realize we are asking you to think about your way of teaching with new ideas and strategies. Therefore, we try to illustrate them with clear examples. These different approaches include clear descriptions of what these activities look like, why to develop and implement them, and how to do so for your specific needs.
