Who hasn't feared the math Minotaur in its labyrinth of abstractions? Now, in Out of the Labyrinth, Robert and Ellen Kaplan--the founders of The Math Circle, the popular learning program begun at Harvard in 1994--reveal the secrets behind their highly successful approach, leading readers out of the labyrinth and into the joyous embrace of mathematics.
Written with the same wit and clarity that made Robert Kaplan's The Nothing That Is an international bestseller, Out of the Labyrinth offers an engaging and practical guide for parents and educators, and a delight for anyone interested in sharing the pleasures of mathematics. The Kaplans begin by describing the state of modern math education--the lockstep acquisition of "skills," "number facts," and "mad minute" calculations.

ch 1: Ordering and Manipulating Numbers. ch 2: Expressions and Equations. ch 3: Fractions and Percentages. ch 4: Ratio, Proportion and Rate. ch 5: Data Sets. ch 6: Probability. ch 7: Geometry. Additional Questions. Appendixes.

Math Wonderland is a museum of interactive mathematical models in Hokkaido, Japan, founded by one of the authors, Jin Akiyama, in 2003. The models in Wonderland, many of which have been exhibited all over Japan and in cities around the world, are meant to help children and young adults discover and experience the wonders of mathematics.
The book is an important contribution to the genre because it presents mathematics and models that have never before appeared in books in the same category: reversible solids, plane tiling with developments of tetrahedrons, and double-packable solids, which are derived from the authors’ own research papers published in mathematics journals. It is designed to entertain, inform and even teach some mathematics. Although it is targeted at young adults, parents and teachers may learn something from the book as well.

A practical tutorial on the mathematics essential to the process control field, written by an experienced process control engineer for practicing engineers and students. A quick-and-easy review of the mathematics common to the field, including chapters on frequency response analysis, transfer functions and block diagrams, and the Z-N approximation. A handy desk reference for process control engineers - a helpful aid to students in mathematics courses.

Рассмотрены методы вычисления погрешностей, приближенного решения нелинейных алгебраических и дифференциальных уравнений, аппроксимации, числового дифференцирования и интегрирования. Изложены статистические методы обработки результатов наблюдений, в частности, первичную статистическую обработку экспериментальных данных, элементы теории корреляции. Значительное внимание уделено применению методов приближенных вычислений и статистической обработки данных к различным вопросам химии и химической технологии. Приведены примеры расчетов, таблицы, которые используются при статистической обработке данных.
Особенностью учебника является ориентация пользователей - студентов химико-технологических специальностей - на потребность овладения методов вычислительной математики с последующим внедрением этих методов в программных продуктах. Последние, по задумке авторов, студенты должны создавать самостоятельно, что отличает этот учебник от распространенных ныне учебников-инструкций для пользования готовыми программами.

This book is all meat and cuts right to the point - modeling and texturing game weapons like a professional. Written by Christian Chang, weapons modeler on America’s Army and now at EA, this book delivers what the reader wants. Starting with a discussion on customizing your modeling application for ease of use, the book emphasizes the importance of employing professional techniques when setting up your project. From there, the chapters concentrate on creating specific weapons - from a samurai sword to a modern high-velocity, fully-automatic machine gun - in a step-by-step progression from simple to complex. Each weapon is modeled, UV mapped, optimized, and finally textured for realism.

From the fall of the Bastille to the rise of Napoleon, Paris was the stage for most of the greatest crises of the French Revolution. Indeed, for many historians, the Revolution was a distinctly Parisian phenomenon, restricted to the galleries of the Tuileries and the chambers of the Jacobin Club. But Paris was only one setting for a national terror which was frequently and painfully felt outside the capital. What happened during these momentous years beyond Paris? How did the revolution spread from the capital and how did it affect people living in the provinces?

Explains how to use a personal computer to complete activities that explore math, reading, geography, and science.
Teaches facts and skills about mathematics, while helping the reader to become comfortable with using a computer.
Young readers will learn how to graph their way through a day, use numbers to "draw" on the computer, discover all kinds of shapes, & let math lead the way to fun projects.

Linguaphone has been successfully teaching people Spanish and various other languages for a long time. Its style is to introduce the learner to a conversation in the target language, then break down the conversation into parts to teach the language aspects.
The part I like about this approach is that you hear the language in a conversational setting. You learn useful words for particular settings, for example meeting people, at the airport, in a restaurant, etc. It avoids learning difficult verb conjugations at the start and gives you the tools to understand and use the language. I’m sure that if the program was continued you would no doubt learn a lot.

The courses that we enjoyed most when we were students were those that emphasized design. In design-oriented courses, we used the concepts taught in lecture to solve practical problems. The process of applying ideas made it easier to understand them and understand how they could be applied in a real-world setting.
This emphasis on learning by doing is used throughout A Laboratory Course in C++ Data Structures. In each laboratory, you will explore a particular data structure by implementing it. As you create an implementation, you will learn how the data structure works and how it can be applied. The resulting implementation is a working piece of software that you can use in later laboratories and programming projects.

This new set helps students better understand commonly studied math concepts by illustrating their use in everyday life. Everyday tasks are designed to support the modern mathematics curriculum and contain examples related to the global economy.

This book furthers our understanding by relating important concepts in physics to living systems. Applications of physics in biology and medicine are emphasized, with no previous knowledge of bioloogy required. The analysis is largely quantitative, but only high-school physics and mathematics are assumed. Underlying basic physics appendices. Biological systems are described in only enough detail for physical analysis.
The organization is similar to basic physisics texts: solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynammics, sound, electrocity, optics, and atomic and nuclear physics. A bibliography gives important sourses for further reading.

Signal analysis, a method of arriving at a structural description of a signal so that later high-level algorithms can interpret its content, is a growing field with an increasing number of applications. Signal Analysis: Time, Frequency, Scale, and Structure opens a window into the practice of signal analysis by providing a gradual yet thorough introduction to the theory behind signal analysis as well as the abstract mathematics and functional analysis which may be new to many readers.

A practical book written for engineers who design and use antennas
The author has many years of hands on experience designing antennas that were used in such applications as the Venus and Mars missions of NASA
The book covers all important topics of modern antenna design for communications
Numerical methods will be included but only as much as are needed for practical applications
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Learn hands-on antenna design from a leading expert
Modern Antenna Design, Second Edition continues the practical approach that marked the popular first edition by distilling theory to the essentials of antenna design without becoming buried in mathematics. Written by an expert antenna designer whose designs have been used on NASA missions to explore Mars and Venus, the book emphasizes and demonstrates real-world applications across a variety of fields, including telecommunications, remote sensing, and broadcasting.

This best selling book is well known for effectively combining a clear, highly-accurate explanation of theory--supported by superior exercises, examples, and illustrations--and an emphasis on troubleshooting and applications using actual devices. The Ninth Edition features stronger coverage of key areas (including two new chapters on Programmable Logic Devices), new exercises throughout the text, and an improved pedagogical framework. It includes two specially designed sections which link principles to real world practices--a Digital System Application section in every chapter, and practical Workbench activities throughout the text. Plus, Digital Fundamentals, Ninth Edition features an exciting full color format which uses color to enhance the instructional value of photographs, illustrations, tables, charts, and graphs. Throughout the text's coverage, the use of mathematics is limited to only those concepts that are needed for understanding. Floyd's acclaimed troubleshooting emphasis, as always, provides students with the problem solving experience they need to step out of the classroom and into a job!