Mathematics

Using 10 simple rules for understanding numbers - plus one golden rule - this extraordinarily insightful book shows how if we keep our wits about us, thinking carefully about the way numbers are sourced and presented, we can look around us and see with clarity how the world adds up....

This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business....

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Humble Pi, written and read by Matt Parker.... 

Teachers often find it difficult to implement lessons that help students go beyond rote memorization and repetitive calculations. In fact, institutional norms and habits that permeate all classrooms can actually be enabling "non-thinking" student behavior....

Would you like to discover and understand how the world around you works, while discovering how your thoughts can help you shape the reality you desire? Quantum physics is a part of physics that describes the smallest things in our universe like atoms, molecules, electrons, protons....

The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer....

Maverick thinker Nassim Nicholas Taleb had an illustrious career on Wall Street before turning his focus to his black swan theory....

You may have watched hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons (and its sister show Futurama) without ever realising that they contain enough maths to form an entire university course.

Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material....

Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja....

Emotions are powerful. In newspaper headlines and on social media, they have become the primary way of understanding the world. But strong feelings make it more difficult to see the reality behind the rhetoric....

Do you know your fractions from your percentages? Your adjacent to your hypotenuse? And who really knows how to do long division, anyway? Puzzled already? Don’t blame you....

Become a Python programming expert with ease! Python is a simple yet powerful programming language that can enable you to start thinking like a programmer right from the beginning.... 

Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb - veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur has penned a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill....

From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet....

In Zero, science journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern physics....

Once you know how to see them, numbers are all around us - buried in the dimensions of buildings and encoding the data on our favourite gadgets.... 

Bertrand Russell wrote that mathematics can exalt "as surely as poetry". This is especially true of one equation: ei(pi) + 1 = 0, the brainchild of Leonhard Euler....

Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called "sexy"....

A fascinating, enchanting and painfully personal look at the meaning of luck, and the way in which it has shaped our shared history and continues to inflect our day to day lives.... 

There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: It underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines....

Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data....

The truth is: When you look at it from an external point of view, the term Quantum Physics can be quite intimidating. But even if it is difficult and complex to understand, it is nowhere close to being incomprehensible. ...

To equip students for higher-level mathematics learning, we have to be clear about where students are, where they need to go, and what it looks like when they get there....

MIT economists Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli explain how game theory—the ultimate theory of rationality—explains irrational behaviour....

Probing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning—and brought him to the edge of madness.

Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modelling of human psychology and behaviour. Only much later did he realise that Asimov's 'psychohistory' had a real-world equivalent: game theory. Originating in the study of probabilistic gambling games that depend on a random source—the throw of a dice or the toss of a coin—game theory soon came to be applied to human interactions: essentially, what was the best strategy to win, whatever you were doing?

Over a period spanning nearly 15 years, I studied mathematics and physics while tutoring college students in all areas of undergraduate math and physics courses. While encountering so many different students and courses, I recognized that most students had forgotten crucial information from previous classes and did not know how to navigate textbooks to find what they were looking for. For this reason, I combed through all math and physics courses and isolated all equations and formulas in one easy-to-reference text.

While encountering so many different students and courses, I recognized that most students had forgotten crucial information from previous classes and did not know how to navigate textbooks to find what they were looking for. For this reason, I combed through all math and physics courses and isolated all equations and formulas in one easy-to-reference text. I also included many notes, tips, and tricks covering situations that are usually quite simple but often misunderstood. I hope my collection of formulas, equations, and advice helps you through Calculus 1 (Differential).

While encountering so many different students and courses, I recognized that most students had forgotten crucial information from previous classes and did not know how to navigate textbooks to find what they were looking for. For this reason, I combed through all math and physics courses and isolated all equations and formulas in one easy-to-reference text. I also included many notes, tips, and tricks covering situations that are usually quite simple but often misunderstood. I hope my collection of formulas, equations, and advice helps you through Calculus 3.

In Hidden Games, MIT economists Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli find a surprising middle ground between the hyperrationality of classical economics and the hyper-irrationality of behavioural economics. They call it hidden games. Reviving game theory, Hoffman and Yoeli use it to explain our most puzzling behaviour, from the mechanics of Stockholm syndrome and internalised misogyny to why we help strangers and have a sense of fairness.

Keep this book with you while studying for an easy reference guide. Within the context, you will find all equations and formulas from college algebra, trigonometry, precalculus, calculus 1 (differential), calculus 2 (integral), calculus 3 (several variables), vector calculus, multivariable calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, and physics.

What does it mean to be lucky? How might we mitigate the effects of bad luck and maximise those of good? Is there actually such a thing as ‘luck’—some force that intervenes between desire and its consummation, that impedes or hastens it? To answer these questions, David Flusfeder sets out on a search for the definition of luck. 

A brilliant research mathematician reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching methods used in most schools today. Witty and accessible, Paul Lockhart's controversial approach will provoke spirited debate among educators and parents alike, altering the way we think about math forever. 

Do you want to become mentally sharper and quicker? Do you want to be able to save time and calculate large numbers on the go while you're shopping or calculating a bill at a restaurant? Do you want other people to notice how you seem to not need a calculator, how you seem like such a genius? Mental math is the ability to solve math problems in your head, without the need to write or use a calculator. And it has all of the benefits implied above and much more. Preliminary studies have even shown that mental math can improve your emotional health as well.