Populærvidenskab: matematik

Featuring surprising trivia gems alongside serious questions like why there is something rather than nothing, readers will be enriched by this exploration of remarkable number coincidences and the mathematics that make them possible - and probable.

Where do you go when you want to be someone else? In today's world your destination of choice may well be an on-line gaming site. Gaming as Imagination Technology is a collection of articles that prompts reflection and provokes debate on the role of gaming in the higher education curriculum. This reader is intended for courses in communication, anthropology, and sociology, but is appropriate for any course that might/would discuss gaming as a significant shift in how people organize themselves and learn. Some of the topics and readings in Gaming as Imagination include: Real Behavior in Virtual EnvironmentsThe Effects of Prosocial Video Games on Prosocial BehaviorStrangers and Friends: Collaborative Play in World of WarcraftLabor of Fun: How Video Games Blur the Boundaries of Work and PlayWomen, Video Gaming and LearningGaming as Imagination is both topical and timely. It provides a thought-provoking look at the impact on learning and behavior of this imaginative, increasingly popular, seductive social phenomenon, a phenomenon that many take lightly, but none should ignore. Lonny J Avi Brooks received his Ph.D. in Communication at the University of California, San Diego. He also holds on M.A. In Library and Information Science, which he earned at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Brooks is an assistant professor in the Communication Department at California State University, East Bay. In addition to teaching, he is working on Playing@: Work: Performing Future Scenarios of 21st Century Life at the Institute for the Future, currently under review at MIT Press. His research of IFTF is part of a large study undertaken by think tanks worldwide to investigate metaphors employed in future scenarios of computing and how these interact with historical, sociocultural memories and present-day realities. Dr. Brooks also researches emergent trends in social computing. His areas of emphasis are an investigation of how on-line gaming is being implemented in higher education, and how it can provide students with immersive experiences in learning about media theory and practice. Currently Dr. Brooks is Chair of the Communication and The Future division of the National Communication Association.

If you think that statistics has nothing to say about what you do or how you could do it better, then you are either wrong or in need of a more interesting job. Stephen Senn explains here how statistics determines many decisions about medical care, from allocating resources for health, to determining which drugs to license, to cause-and-effect in relation to disease. He tackles big themes: clinical trials and the development of medicines, life tables, vaccines and their risks or lack of them, smoking and lung cancer and even the power of prayer. He entertains with puzzles and paradoxes and covers the lives of famous statistical pioneers. By the end of the book the reader will see how reasoning with probability is essential to making rational decisions in medicine, and how and when it can guide us when faced with choices that impact on our health and even life.

Crush Your Math Fear! Tips, Tricks, & Riddles to Improve Your Math Skills

Originally published in hardcover in 2017 by Siimon & Schuster.

"e;Wozu braucht man Mathematik?"e; Dieses Buch stellt unter Beweis, dass moderne Mathematik in fast samtlichen Lebensbereichen eine wichtige Rolle spielt. Aktuelle Forschung wird durch unterhaltsame Aufgaben und ihre Losungen anschaulich.Das Buch fordert zum aktiven Mitmachen auf und zeigt Schulerinnen und Schulern, dass Mathematik interessant ist und Freude bereiten kann. Fur die Anstrengung des konzentrierten Nachdenkens werden die Leserinnen und Leser mit nutzlichen und manchmal auch verbluffenden Ergebnissen belohnt. Das Buch basiert auf einer Auswahl der schonsten Aufgaben aus sechs Jahrgangen des mathematischen Adventskalenders des DFG-Forschungszentrums MATHEON (www.mathekalender.de). Freuen Sie sich auf eine Rundreise durch spannende Mathematik und ihre Anwendungen!

Most people agree that math is important, but few would say it's fun. This book will show you that the subject you learned to hate in high school can be as entertaining as a witty remark, as engrossing as the mystery novel you can't put down--in short, fun! As veteran math educators Posamentier and Lehmann demonstrate, when you realize that doing math can be enjoyable, you open a door into a world of unexpected insights while learning an important skill.The authors illustrate the point with many easily understandable examples. One of these is what mathematicians call the "Ruth-Aaron pair" (714 and 715), named after the respective career home runs of Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. These two consecutive integers contain a host of interesting features, one of which is that their prime factors when added together have the same sum. The authors also explore the unusual aspects of such numbers as 11 and 18, which have intriguing properties usually overlooked by standard math curriculums. And to make you a better all-around problem solver, a variety of problems is presented that appear simple but have surprisingly clever solutions.If math has frustrated you over the years, this delightful approach will teach you many things you thought were beyond your reach, while conveying the key message that math can and should be anything but boring.

Every time we download music, take a flight across the Atlantic or talk on our cell phones, we are relying on great mathematical inventions. In The Number Mysteries, one of our generation's foremost mathematicians Marcus du Sautoy offers a playful and accessible examination of numbers and how, despite efforts of the greatest minds, the most fundamental puzzles of nature remain unsolved. Du Sautoy tells about the quest to predict the future-from the flight of asteroids to an impending storm, from bending a ball like Beckham to forecasting population growth. He brings to life the beauty behind five mathematical puzzles that have contributed to our understanding of the world around us and have helped develop the technology to cope with it. With loads of games to play and puzzles to solve, this is a math book for everyone.

Quadratic equations, Pythagoras¿ theorem, imaginary numbers, and pi ¿ you may remember studying these at school, but did anyone ever explain why? Never fear ¿ bestselling science writer, and your new favourite maths teacher, Michael Brooks, is here to help.In The Maths That Made Us, Brooks reminds us of the wonders of numbers: how they enabled explorers to travel far across the seas and astronomers to map the heavens; how they won wars and halted the HIV epidemic; how they are responsible for the design of your home and almost everything in it, down to the smartphone in your pocket. His clear explanations of the maths that built our world, along with stories about where it came from and how it shaped human history, will engage and delight. From ancient Egyptian priests to the Apollo astronauts, and Babylonian tax collectors to juggling robots, join Brooks and his extraordinarily eccentric cast of characters in discovering how maths made us who we are today.

The official utterly addictive number-placing puzzleSomething wicked this way comes! These all new Difficult puzzles will push you to the limit. More than just hours of entertainment, Su Doku engages your mind, improves your concentration, and helps you stay mentally fit. With 150 brand-new puzzles to complete, you'll become a Su Doku master in no time!

Major Percy Alexander MacMahon is one of the nineteenth century's forgotten mathematical heroes. Mathematicians know him for his classic work Combinatory Analysis, a book still in print. He also published four papers on recreational topics. New Mathematical Pastimes develops some of these ideas. It has had a widespread and persistent influence but is still unknown to many recreational mathematicians and the puzzle community. The book is hard to come by and so it seems fitting to produce a reprint to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth.MacMahon set out to demonstrate the principles by which an interested reader, with some work and thought, could create his or her own amusements. It also contained a completely original approach to visual puzzles, where edge matching could be forced by altering the profiles of the edges, a process described in Part II of the book. The results of these transformations are remarkably similar to work produced by Maurits Escher, and predate him by a decade and a half. As well as being important as a resource the subject is by no means exhausted. A worthwhile and important addition to any collection - in book and CD form (CD with much original, additional material).

?The most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived? (Martin Gardner) gives us an encore to The Lady or the Tiger?-a fiendishly clever, utterly captivating new collection of 225 brainteasers, puzzles, and paradoxes.

This stimulating collection -- complete with instructive solutions -- involves numbers, equations, polygons, and polyhedra as well as more amusing and practical subjects, from picnic hams to rooks on a chessboard.