The Pleasures of Counting

Author: Thomas William Körner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521568234
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 548

Book Description
What is the connection between the outbreak of cholera in Victorian Soho, the Battle of the Atlantic, African Eve and the design of anchors? One answer is that they are all examples chosen by Dr Tom Körner to show how a little mathematics can shed light on the world around us, and deepen our understanding of it. Dr Körner, an experienced author, describes a variety of topics which continue to interest professional mathematicians, like him. He does this using relatively simple terms and ideas, yet confronting difficulties (which are often the starting point for new discoveries) and avoiding condescension. If you have ever wondered what it is that mathematicians do, and how they go about it, then read on. If you are a mathematician wanting to explain to others how you spend your working days (and nights), then seek inspiration here.

Counting Sheep

Author: Paul Martin
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312327446
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
Does the early bird really catch the worm, or end up healthy, wealthy, and wise? Can some people really exist on just a few hours' sleep a night? Does everybody dream? Do fish dream? How did people cope before alarm clocks and caffeine? And is anybody getting enough sleep? Even though we will devote a third of our lives to sleep, we still know remarkably little about its origins and purpose. Paul Martin's Counting Sheep answers these questions and more in this illuminating work of popular science. Even the wonders of yawning, the perils of sleepwalking, and the strange ubiquity of nocturnal erections are explained in full. To sleep, to dream: Counting Sheep reflects the centrality of these activities to our lives and can help readers respect, understand, and extract more pleasure from that delicious time when they're lost to the world.

Naive Decision Making

Author: T. W. Körner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139473565
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 375

Book Description
How should one choose the best restaurant to eat in? Can one really make money at gambling? Or predict the future? Naive Decision Making presents the mathematical basis for making decisions where the outcome may be uncertain or the interests of others have to taken into consideration. Professor Körner takes the reader on an enjoyable journey through many aspects of mathematical decision making, with pithy observations, anecdotes and quotations. Topics include probability, statistics, Arrow's theorem, Game Theory and Nash equilibrium. Readers will also gain a great deal of insight into mathematics in general and the role it can play within society. Intended for those with elementary calculus, this book is ideal as a supplementary text for undergraduate courses in probability, game theory and decision making. Engaging and intriguing, it will also appeal to all those of a mathematical mind. To aid understanding, many exercises are included, with solutions available online.

Where Do Numbers Come From?

Author: T. W. Körner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108488064
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
A clear, entertaining development of the number systems required in any course of modern mathematics.

Calculus for the Ambitious

Author: T. W. Körner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107063922
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
A short introduction perfect for any 16- to 18-year-old, about to begin studies in mathematics.

One White Wishing Stone

Author: Doris Gayzagian
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9780792251101
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
A girl gathers natural objects to decorate her sandcastle, saving some of them to take back home from the beach.

Counting Through the Day

Author: Margaret Wild
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610675581
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Counting through the Day leads us gently from morning to night, counting everything from two sturdy feet to twelve dry sticks for the fire. The rhythmic verse and simple everyday pleasures both soothe and delight, making this the the perfect bedtime -- or anytime -- book.

The Pleasures of the Text

Author: Elizabeth Locey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461705193
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Book Description
Why was Violette Leduc's 1954 novel ThZr_se et Isabelle not published in its entirety until November 2000? Under threat of scandal and obsenity charges, French publisher Gallimard withheld the novel, but Leduc continued to write of her life as a woman writer in wartime Paris, frankly depicting her own and imagined lesbian experiences. Mentored by Simone de Beauvoir and a contemporary of French twentieth-century luminaries Sartre, Camus, Genet, and Cocteau, Leduc is, however, known best as France's great unknown writer. In The Pleasures of the Text, Elizabeth Locey restores Leduc to her rightful place in the canon, bringing to light her singular and important contributions to contemporary literary theory. Locey reads Leduc's works from the perspective of reader seduction, which erodes the divide between body and text. Situating Leduc within a continuum with Emma Bovary and Roland Barthes at its extremes, Locey investigates Leduc's use of the erotic touch, look, and voice to seduce her readers. More than an accessible introduction to an overlooked writer, The Pleasures of the Text confronts and challenges the philosophical debate between pornography and erotica and pins down some of the often slippery ways pleasure is mapped onto the body of the reader.

The Beaux' Stratagem. A Comedy, in Five Acts

Author: George Farquhar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description

Measures, Integrals and Martingales

Author: René L. Schilling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108161758
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 497

Book Description
A concise yet elementary introduction to measure and integration theory, which are vital in many areas of mathematics, including analysis, probability, mathematical physics and finance. In this highly successful textbook, core ideas of measure and integration are explored, and martingales are used to develop the theory further. Other topics are also covered such as Jacobi's transformation theorem, the Radon–Nikodym theorem, differentiation of measures and Hardy–Littlewood maximal functions. In this second edition, readers will find newly added chapters on Hausdorff measures, Fourier analysis, vague convergence and classical proofs of Radon–Nikodym and Riesz representation theorems. All proofs are carefully worked out to ensure full understanding of the material and its background. Requiring few prerequisites, this book is suitable for undergraduate lecture courses or self-study. Numerous illustrations and over 400 exercises help to consolidate and broaden knowledge. Full solutions to all exercises are available on the author's webpage at www.motapa.de. This book forms a sister volume to René Schilling's other book Counterexamples in Measure and Integration (www.cambridge.org/9781009001625).