Games, Gods and Gambling: the Origins and History of Probability and Statistical Ideas From the Earliest Times to the Newtonian Era

F. N David

Hafner Publishing Company | 1962 | 275 páginas | pdf | 8,7 Mb

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Descrição: The development of gambling techniques led to the beginning of modern statistics, and this absorbing history illustrates the science’s rise with vignettes from the lives of Galileo, Fermat, Pascal, and others. Fascinating allusions to the classics, archaeology, biography, poetry, and fiction endow this volume with universal appeal.

Table of Contents

The development of the random event
Divination
The probable
Early beginnings
Tartaglia and Cardano
Cardano and Liber de Ludo Aleae
Galileo
Fermat and Pascal
The arithmetic triangle and correspondence between Fermat and Pascal
Bills of Mortality
Christianus Huygens
Wallis, Newton and Pepys
James Bernoulli and Ars Conjectandi
Pierre-Rémond de Montmort and The Essai d'Analyse
Abraham de Moivre and The Doctrine of Chances
Appendix
Buckley's Memorable Arithmetic, Translated by Jean Edmiston
Galileo's Sopra le Scoperte dei Dadi, Translated by E. H. Thorne
Brother Hilarion de Coste's Life of Father Marin Mersenne, Translated by Maxine Merrington
Letters between Fermat and Pascal and Carcavi, Translated from Oeuvres de Fermat by Maxine Merrington

From The Doctrine of Chances by A. de Moivre

Trig Or Treat: An Encyclopedia of Trigonometric Identity Proofs With Intellectually Challenging Games

Adrian Yeo

World Scientific Publishing Company | 2007 | 416 páginas | rar -pdf |

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Descrição: This encyclopedia contains trigonometric identity proofs for some three hundred identities. The book is presented in the form of mathematical games for the reader s enjoyment and includes a concordance of trigonometric identities, enabling easy reference. Trig or Treat is a must-have for: every student of trigonometry, to find the proofs for trigonometric identities that may be set in class or in exams; every teacher of trigonometry, to have easy access to trigonometric identities of different levels of difficulty, to set assignments for different levels of students; every library, to provide a ready resource for students every aficionado of Sudoku, crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, Tetris, and other games, who love an intellectual challenge.

Thiele: Pioneer in Statistics

Steffen L. Lauritzen

Oxford University Press, USA | 2002 | 288 páginas | pdf | 3,5 Mb

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Descrição: This book is about a brilliant Danish 19th Century astronomer, TN Thiele who made important contributions to statistics, actuarial science, astronomy and mathematics. In this book the most important of these contributions in statistics are translated into English for the first time, and the text includes comments that set his achievements in a modern and historical perspective.

The Greate Invention of Algebra: Thomas Harriot's Treatise on Equations

Jacqueline Stedall

Oxford University Press, USA | 2003 | 336 páginas | PDF | 2,16 Mb

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Descrição: The Great Invention of Algebra provides aninsight into the work of Thomas Harriot, an innovative thinker and oractitioner in several branches of the mathematical sciences, including navigation, astronomy, optics, geometry and algebra. This book focuses on one hundred and forty of these manuscript pages and concentrates on Harriot's work on the structure and solution of equations.

Mathematics: Powerful Patterns into Nature and Society

(Milestones in Discovery and Invention)
Harry Henderson
Chelsea House Publications | 2007 | 192 páginas | pdf | 3,7 Mb

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Descrição: For most people, mathematics is an abstraction with little connection to the "real" universe. But some mathematicians have discovered relatively simple yet exceedingly powerful patterns that yield insight into aspects of natural and human behavior. "Mathematics" presents 10 essays that profile the minds behind such patterns, many of which have surfaced in recent popular culture. Meet Leonardo of Pisa, who worked with Fibonacci numbers and the "Golden Section"; John von Neumann and John Nash, proponents of game theory; Edward Lorentz, who developed chaos theory; and Sid Meier, who has created award-winning computer games, such as Gettysburg and SimGolf, and five other mathematicians. Although the ideas explored here may produce complex results, they are inherently simple in concept, making them appealing, accessible vehicles for acquainting students with the human side of mathematics.

The Facts On File Calculus Handbook

(Facts on File Science Library)
Eli Maor

Facts on File | 2005 | 164 páginas

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Descrição: The Facts On File Calculus Handbook brings the fundamentals of calculus to students in an easy and accessible format. An ideal primer for the subject, this book takes all the basics of calculus and helps students understand and apply them in their work.


Tópicos:
Absolute value
Binomial theorem
Derivative
Exponential growth
Greatest integer function
Implicit differentiation
Integration
Law of cosines
Linear function
Parabola
Polynomial functions
Second derivative
Velocity.
Jakob Bernoulli
René Descartes
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Sir Isaac Newton
Blaise Pascal
François Viète
John Wallis





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The Facts On File Algebra Handbook

(Facts on File Science Library)
Deborah Todd

Facts on File | 2005 | 164 páginas | PDF

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Descrição: This book is designed to give students a broad understanding of the basics of algebra. Algebra fundamentals are essential for solving problems in other parts of mathematics as well, such as algebraic geometry. The Facts On File Algebra Handbook delivers algebra made easy and accessible to everyone.

Tópicos:

• Abscissa
• Conditional equation
• Deficient number (defective number)
• Double inequality
• Fibonacci sequence
• Interdependent event
• Multiplicative identity
• Property
• Ratio
• Slope
• Transitive property of equality
• Whole number
• Zero exponent theorem.

Biografias:

• Maria Gaëtana Agnesi
• Apollonius of Perga
• Nina Karlovna Bari
• Bhaskara
• Dame Mary Cartwright
• Leonhard Euler
• Abu Kamil
• Helena Rasiowa
• Shing-Tung Yau