Author : Paul Lockhart
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 067423751X
Paul Lockhart reveals arithmetic not as the rote manipulation of numbers but as a set of ideas that exhibit the surprising behaviors usually reserved for higher branches of mathematics. In this entertaining survey, he explores the nature of counting and different number systems—Western and non-Western—and weighs the pluses and minuses of each.
Author : Charles Davies
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Arithmetic
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Siklos
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781783747764
This new and expanded edition is intended to help candidates prepare for entrance examinations in mathematics and scientific subjects, including STEP (Sixth Term Examination Paper). STEP is an examination used by Cambridge Colleges for conditional offers in mathematics. They are also used by some other UK universities and many mathematics departments recommend that their applicants practice on the past papers even if they do not take the examination. Advanced Problems in Mathematics bridges the gap between school and university mathematics, and prepares students for an undergraduate mathematics course. The questions analysed in this book are all based on past STEP questions and each question is followed by a comment and a full solution. The comments direct the reader's attention to key points and put the question in its true mathematical context. The solutions point students to the methodology required to address advanced mathematical problems critically and independently. This book is a must read for any student wishing to apply to scientific subjects at university level and for anyone interested in advanced mathematics.
Author : Charles Davies
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Arithmetic
ISBN :
Author : Francis Su
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0300237138
"The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love. The mathematician Francis Su knows just where to find them."--Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine" This is perhaps the most important mathematics book of our time. Francis Su shows mathematics is an experience of the mind and, most important, of the heart."--James Tanton, Global Math Project For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity's most beautiful ideas. In this profound book, written for a wide audience but especially for those disenchanted by their past experiences, an award-winning mathematician and educator weaves parables, puzzles, and personal reflections to show how mathematics meets basic human desires--such as for play, beauty, freedom, justice, and love--and cultivates virtues essential for human flourishing. These desires and virtues, and the stories told here, reveal how mathematics is intimately tied to being human. Some lessons emerge from those who have struggled, including philosopher Simone Weil, whose own mathematical contributions were overshadowed by her brother's, and Christopher Jackson, who discovered mathematics as an inmate in a federal prison. Christopher's letters to the author appear throughout the book and show how this intellectual pursuit can--and must--be open to all.
Author : G. Arnell Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1442218762
We hear all the time how American children are falling behind their global peers in various basic subjects, but particularly in math. Is it our fear of math that constrains us? Or our inability to understand math’s place in relation to our everyday lives? How can we help our children better understand the basics of arithmetic if we’re not really sure we understand them ourselves? Here, G. Arnell Williams helps parents and teachers explore the world of math that their elementary school children are learning. Taking readers on a tour of the history of arithmetic, and its growth into the subject we know it to be today, Williams explores the beauty and relevance of mathematics by focusing on the great conceptual depth and genius already inherent in the elementary mathematics familiar to us all, and by connecting it to other well-known areas such as language and the conceptual aspects of everyday life. The result is a book that will help you to better explain mathematics to your children. For those already well versed in these areas, the book offers a tour of the great conceptual and historical facts and assumptions that most simply take for granted. If you are someone who has always struggled with mathematics either because you couldn’t do it or because you never really understood why the rules are the way they are, if you were irritated with the way it was taught to you with the emphasis being only on learning the rules and “recipes” by rote as opposed to obtaining a good conceptual understanding, then How Math Works is for you!
Author : Robert William Fogel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,93 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226256618
We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn’t the case—economists simply didn’t have the necessary information or statistical tools to understand the ever more complicated modern economy. With Political Arithmetic, Nobel Prize–winning economist Robert Fogel and his collaborators tell the story of economist Simon Kuznets, the founding of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the creation of the concept of GNP, which for the first time enabled us to measure the performance of entire economies. The book weaves together the many strands of political and economic thought and historical pressures that together created the demand for more detailed economic thinking—Progressive-era hopes for activist government, the production demands of World War I, Herbert Hoover’s interest in business cycles as President Harding’s commerce secretary, and the catastrophic economic failures of the Great Depression—and shows how, through trial and error, measurement and analysis, economists such as Kuznets rose to the occasion and in the process built a discipline whose knowledge could be put to practical use in everyday decision-making. The product of a lifetime of studying the workings of economies and skillfully employing the tools of economics, Political Arithmetic is simultaneously a history of a key period of economic thought and a testament to the power of applied ideas.
Author : Charles Davies
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 1852
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Thomas A. Garrity
Publisher : 清华大学出版社有限公司
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9787302090854
Author : Mathewmatician
Publisher : Mathewmatician
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release :
Category : Education
ISBN :
All four arithmetic examples and exercises are provided with detailed and smooth versions of video teaching It is suitable to - Children with strong self-learning ability - Parents who train their children on their own - Kindergarten or Primary school teacher - Students majoring in early childhood education or elementary education in universities and colleges - Those who are interested in becoming an abacus and mental arithmetic teacher or are interested in running an abacus and mental arithmetic class
