A discussion of fundamental mathematical principles from algebra to elementary calculus designed to promote constructive mathematical reasoning.
In this charming volume, a noted English mathematician uses humor and anecdote to illuminate the concepts of groups, sets, subsets, topology, Boolean algebra, and other mathematical subjects. 200 illustrations.
Presents more than eight hundred entries, six essays, a chronology of notable events in mathematics, a list of associations, and a bibliography that contains Web resources.
This book is for non-believers of all ages.
[619] Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig. Artificial intelligence: A modern approach. Pearson Education, London, second edition, 2003. [319] Sheldon M. Ross. Introduction to probability models. Elsevier/Academic Press, Amsterdam, ...
Men of Mathematics provides a rich account of major mathematical milestones, from the geometry of the Greeks through Newton’s calculus, and on to the laws of probability, symbolic logic, and the fourth dimension.
Casella, George, and Berger, Roger L. 2002. Statistical Inference. Duxbury. ... Deng, Li, Seltzer, Michael L., Yu, Dong, Acero, Alex, Mohamed, Abdel-rahman, and Hinton, Geoffrey E. 2010. ... Eckart, Carl, and Young, Gale. 1936.
The mathematician is Liu Hui , who lived in 3rd - century China , and the mathematical work is the Jiuzhang Suanshu ( Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art ) . Little is known about the life of Liu except that he was an official in the ...
Chi - Square Karl Pearson ( 1857–1936 ) Scientists often obtain experimental results that do not agree with those anticipated according to the rules of probability . For example , when tossing a die , if the deviation from expectation ...
Robbins, H., Some Aspects of the Sequential Design of Experiments, Bull. Amer. Illath. Soc., vol. 58, pp. 527-536, 1952. Shapley, L., Stochastic Games, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., vol. 39, pp. 1095— 1100, 1953.