Colson, Rob
Summary: "Experiments and research challenges help reinforce mathematical concepts in this fascinating book about great math thinkers in history and their discoveries. Readers will enjoy reading the stories behind each breakthrough in math as well as the mini bios of the math "STEM-gineers" who solved them."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Publishing Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 510.9 COLDavis, Ben Ffrancon
Summary: Provides an introduction to mathematics and its uses, discussing numbers and counting, shapes and measurements, patterns and sequences, data and statistics, and probability and logic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510.9 BERHouston, Keith
Summary: "The hidden history of the pocket calculator -- a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon -- and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life." -- back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Forming the foundation for nearly everything we do, mathematics not only describes our world but also reveals its beauty and mystery. Join author and Oxford University professor Marcus du Sautoy as he crisscrosses the globe and enlists distinguished experts to uncover the history, meaning, and wonder of math. Includes three complete programs, The Story of Math, The Music of the Primes, and The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STOSummary: Tells the story of a mathematician's quest to understand numbers. In her day job, professor of statistics Talithia Williams ponders the power of data looking for answers and spotting patterns in huge collections of numbers. But as the anticipated host, she takes a step back and turns her attention to the digits themselves exploring their origins and discovering the wonder that arises from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ZERLivio, Mario
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 512.2 LIVAczel, Amir D
Summary: "The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery. Finding Zero is an adventure filled saga of Amir Aczel's lifelong obsession: to find the original...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510.1 ACZJackson, Tom
Summary: Think math is boring? Think again! Numbers: How Counting Changed the World cracks open the history of numbers to explore the surprising, fascinating, and sometimes mind-boggling evolution of mathematics through the ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Math JacksonHogben, Lancelot Thomas
Summary: Explains mathematics from counting to calculus in the light of man's changing social achievements
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 1968
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Summary: The Little Book of Mathematical Principles, Theories, & Things explains over 120 laws, principles, equations, paradoxes, and theorems that are the foundation of modern mathematics. Making serious math simple, it explains Fibonacci numbers, Zeno's paradoxes and Euclid's Elements, as well as those essentials such as chaos theory, game theory, and, of course, the game of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Math SolomonContents: Why the history of mathematics? -- In the beginning -- Human impact and the societal structuring of mathematics -- European mathematics during the "dark ages" -- Non-western mathematics -- The revitalization of European mathematics -- Mathematical responses to a mechanistic world outlook -- The search for certainty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Court 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510.9 FROMBall, W. W. Rouse
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Publisher / Publication Date: Main Street 1960
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510.9 BALBrooks, Michael
Summary: "For readers of Steven Strogatz's Infinite Powers and The Joy of x comes this illuminating exploration of the ways in which math-and the people who have mastered its inherent power through the ages-has shaped our world. In this captivating, sweeping history, Michael Brooks makes clear that mathematics was one of the foundational innovations that catapulted humanity from a nomadic existence to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 BRODunham, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510.9 DUNHellman, Hal
Contents: Tartaglia versus Cardano. Solving cubic equations -- Descartes versus Fermat. Analytic geometry and optics -- Newton versus Leibniz. Credit for the calculus -- Bernoulli versus Bernoulli. Sibling rivalry of the highest order -- Sylvester versus Huxley. Ivory tower or real world? -- Kronecker versus Cantor. Mathematical humbug -- Borel versus Zermelo. The "notorious axiom" -- Poincaré versus...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 HELBoyer, Carl B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510.9 BOYBardoe, Cheryl
Summary: "A biography of Sophie Germain, who grew up during the French Revolution and followed her dream of studying mathematics, becoming the first woman to win a grand prize from the Royal Academy of Sciences and changing the world with her discoveries"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J921 GERBoxer, Alexander
Summary: "An illuminating look at the surprising history and science of astrology, civilization's first system of algorithms, from Babylon to the present day. Humans are pattern-matching creatures, and astrology is our grandest pattern-matching game. In this refreshing work of history and analysis, data scientist Alexander Boxer examines classical texts on astrology to expose its underlying scientific...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.509 BOXAlexander, Amir R.
Summary: In this strikingly original book that takes readers from Paris to St. Petersburg, Norway to Transylvania, Alexander introduces those national heroes and outcasts, innocents, swindlers, and martyrs who were also the uncommonly gifted creators of modern mathematics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510.9 ALEHirsch, E. D. (Eric Donald)
Summary: "A revised and updated version of What Your First Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good First-Grade Education, including achievement with readings and activities in Literature, Mathematics, History, science, and the arts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.19 HIRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372 HIRSummary: "A revised and updated version of What Your Second Grader Needs to Know, Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education, with readings and activities in Literature, Mathematics, History, science, and the arts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372 WHAEllenberg, 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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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 ELLBecker, 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