epub |eng | 2017-10-04 | Author:Vicky Neale [Neale, Vicky]

Returning to our hypothetical 15-sided pencil, the theorem tells us that each of the 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13 and 14 sides contains infinitely many primes. Wow! As ...

epub |eng | 1999-10-27 | Author:Kaplan, Robert [Kaplan, Robert]

The triumph of the Arabic numerals Yet Adam Riese was right: people skilled in arithmetic on an abacus, or with their fingers, calculate much more quickly than do those who ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ken Ono & Amir D Aczel [Ono, Ken & Aczel, Amir D]

I enrolled in challenging math courses my senior year, and I made it a point to stand out. I sat in the front row. I did all the homework. I ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Edward Frenkel

*Vera Serganova, the fourth recipient of the Harvard Prize Fellowship, came in the spring. Chapter 14 Tying the Sheaves of Wisdom The spring semester brought more visitors to Harvard, one ...

epub |eng | | Author:Brian Clegg

To a modern physicist these equations are straightforward, bread-and-butter stuff (though most would admire their sophistication). But at the time he produced his original version, Maxwell’s ability to model with ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ken Ono & Amir D. Aczel

I enrolled in challenging math courses my senior year, and I made it a point to stand out. I sat in the front row. I did all the homework. I ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2016-06-30 | Author:Ash, Avner; Gross, Robert;

There is an ambiguity in the logarithm of a complex function. Remember that ez = ez+2πik for any integer k. If w = ez, and conditions are favorable, we can ...

epub |eng | 1996-06-26 | Author:Michael J. Schramm

11.2 THE COVERING PROPERTY The converse of Theorem 11.4 would be very useful. Deciding whether a set is closed and bounded would seem far easier than deciding whether it is ...

epub |eng | | Author:Dr. Konrad Knopp

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-23 | Author:Eric Temple Bell

CHAPTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 A Miscarriage of Reason YOU cannot get to the end of a race-course, because ...

epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Singh, Simon [Singh, Simon]

I wanted certainty in the kind of way in which people want religious faith. I thought that certainty is more likely to be found in mathematics than elsewhere. But I ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-21 | Author:Corry, Leo

6.5 Euclid’s Elements in the Renaissance I would like to conclude this chapter with a particularly illuminating perspective on the contemporary conceptions of number that arises from looking at various ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-13 | Author:Erickson, Martin J., Bindner, Donald, Hemmeter, Joe & Martin J. Erickson & Joe Hemmeter

Groups and Geometry Recall that a group is a set with an operation satisfying certain properties. Groups can describe the symmetries of an object. Here is a small example. Consider ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Mak Trifković

5.3 Minkowski’s Theorem The geometric fact alluded to at the end of the previous section is Minkowski’s theorem: a planar region that is sufficiently big, symmetric, and regular contains a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Frazer Jarvis

Corollary 6.17 Suppose that is a reduced binary quadratic form. Then if , there are automorphs of , given by ; if , there are automorphs of , given by ...