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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.5 WAIBecker, Helaine
Summary: Introduces the unconventional life and achievements of engineer and economist William Playfair and describes how his creative expressions in math and science became the visual bar graphs and pie charts of today's world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 519.5 BECPaulos, John Allen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.5 PAUMitchell, Robert
Summary: This book is designed to help students gain the range of math skills they need to succeed in life, work, and on standardized tests; overcome math anxiety; discover math as interesting and purposeful; and develop good number sense. Topics covered in this book include measurement and data analysis such as measuring distance, space, time, capacity, weight, temperature, organizing and summarizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Readers Press 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.8 MATCall number: 530.8 MAT Teacher's Guide
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.2 GIGStarbird, Michael.
Summary: 12 lectures about probability delivered by Michael Starbird, professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 519.2 WhatEllenberg, Jordan
Summary: "In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us that math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do--the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It's a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument....
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 510 ELLCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 ELLSawchik, Travis.
Summary: "Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle was old school and stubborn. But after twenty straight losing seasons and his job on the line, he was ready to try anything. So when he met with GM Neal Huntington in October 2012, they decided to discard everything they knew about the game and instead take on drastic "big data" strategies. Going well beyond the number-crunching of Moneyball, which used...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2015