epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:Alfred S. Posamentier

From the seven examples, one could easily form the following conclusion, namely that for the natural number n, the following should hold: 1n + 13n + 28n + 70n + ...

epub |eng | 2008-11-14 | Author:Livio, Mario [Livio, Mario]

MELANCHOLY Another major Renaissance figure who entertained an intriguing combination of artistic and mathematical interests is the German painter Albrecht Dürer. Dürer is considered by many to be the greatest ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Mario Livio

Shaken, Not Stirred Finding the love of your life through mathematics is not the only process where permutations are thrust into the limelight. Lotteries commonly provide such situations, and nowhere ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Graham Flegg

P moves throughout with this constant speed which is numerically equal to the length of AB and CD; Q moves with a decreasing speed always numerically equal to QD. At ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Geoffrey Household [Household, Geoffrey]

The telephoning had to be tackled as soon as possible before the description of me and my car had been circulated too widely. It was improbable, we thought, that the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1998-10-26 | Author:Cornwell, Patricia [Cornwell, Patricia]

6 They trudged through the yard and up Marino's front steps. He called Jimmy's house, and sure enough, no one was home. He left a message for Mrs. Simpson on ...

epub, pdf |eng | 1989-06-01 | Author:Theoni Pappas [Pappas, Theoni]

Now let’s try to tessellate a floor using equilateral triangles. Each angle in a equilateral triangle is 60º . We see we can lay six identical equilateral triangles together, and ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-01-06 | Author:Mario Livio

CHAPTER 6 GEOMETERS: FUTURE SHOCK In his famous book Future Shock, author Alvin Toffler defined the term in the title as “the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ian Stewart

The circumstantial evidence in favour of the truth of the Riemann hypothesis – either the original, or its generalisations – is extensive. Many beautiful things would follow from the truth ...

mobi, epub | | 1998-10-24 | Author:Patricia Cornwell

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-09-23 | Author:Mario Livio

Another major Renaissance figure who entertained an intriguing combination of artistic and mathematical interests is the German painter Albrecht Dürer. Dürer is considered by many to be the greatest German ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-04 | Author:Devlin, Keith [Devlin, Keith]

Find a number such that if it be raised to the third power, and the result added to twice the same number raised to the second power, and if that ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2000-10-12 | Author:Charles Seife

XIII The hardest part was splitting up from the others and trusting them to do their bit. But he had to. And, though he didn't say as much, when he ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1994-12-15 | Author:Sylvia Nasar [Nasar, Sylvia]

At first, it seemed like just another one of Nash’s cryptic, disorganized performances, more free association than exposition. But halfway through, something happened. Donald Newman recalled in 1996: One word ...

epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ian Stewart [Stewart, Ian]

11 Waves in the ether Maxwell’s Equations What do they say? Electricity and magnetism can’t just leak away. A spinning region of electric field creates a magnetic field at right ...