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  • An Introduction to Benford's Law

    by Arno Berger, Theodore P. Hill ...
    This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Benford's law, the surprising logarithmic distribution of significant digits discovered in the late nineteenth century. Establishing the mathematical and statistical principles that underpin this intriguing phenomenon, the text combines up-to-date theoretical results with overviews of the law’s colorful history, rapidly growing body of ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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    by Paul J. Nahin ...
    Series series Princeton Puzzlers
    What are your chances of dying on your next flight, being called for jury duty, or winning the lottery? We all encounter probability problems in our everyday lives. In this collection of twenty-one puzzles, Paul Nahin challenges us to think creatively about the laws of probability as they apply in playful, sometimes deceptive, ways to a fascinating array of speculative situations. Games of Russian ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Mathematics

    by Auguste Comte ...
    This edition features• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked IndexCONTENTSINTRODUCTION.GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON MATHEMATICAL SCIENCEBOOK I. ANALYSIS.CHAPTER I. GENERAL VIEW OF MATHEMATICAL ANALYSISCHAPTER II. ORDINARY ANALYSIS; OR, ALGEBRA.CHAPTER III. TRANSCENDENTAL ANALYSIS: its different conceptionsCHAPTER IV. THE DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUSCHAPTER V. THE CALCULUS OF ... Read more

    $2.69 USD

  • Basic Category Theory

    by Tom Leinster ...
    Series Book 143 - Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics
    At the heart of this short introduction to category theory is the idea of a universal property, important throughout mathematics. After an introductory chapter giving the basic definitions, separate chapters explain three ways of expressing universal properties: via adjoint functors, representable functors, and limits. A final chapter ties all three together. The book is suitable for use in ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Godel's Mistake

    The Role of Meaning in Mathematics

    by Ashish Dalela ...
    Gödel's incompleteness theorem is a foundational result in mathematics that proves that any axiomatic theory of numbers will be either inconsistent or incomplete. Turing’s Halting problem is a foundational result in computing proving that computers cannot know if a program will halt. Gödel’s Mistake connects these theorems to the question of meaning. The book shows that the proofs arise due to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Cause and Correlation in Biology

    A User's Guide to Path Analysis, Structural Equations and Causal Inference with R

    by Bill Shipley ...
    Many problems in biology require an understanding of the relationships among variables in a multivariate causal context. Exploring such cause-effect relationships through a series of statistical methods, this book explains how to test causal hypotheses when randomised experiments cannot be performed. This completely revised and updated edition features detailed explanations for carrying out ... Read more

    $60.69 USD

  • Computability Theory

    An Introduction to Recursion Theory

    by Herbert B. Enderton ...
    Computability Theory: An Introduction to Recursion Theory provides a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to contemporary computability theory, techniques, and results. The basic concepts and techniques of computability theory are placed in their historical, philosophical and logical context. This presentation is characterized by an unusual breadth of coverage and the inclusion ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Dicing with Death

    Chance, Risk and Health

    by Stephen Senn ...
    If you think that statistics has nothing to say about what you do or how you could do it better, then you are either wrong or in need of a more interesting job. Stephen Senn explains here how statistics determines many decisions about medical care, from allocating resources for health, to determining which drugs to license, to cause-and-effect in relation to disease. He tackles big themes: ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Magic Garden Of George B And Other Logic Puzzles, The

    by Raymond M Smullyan ...
    Raymond Smullyan presents a bombshell puzzle so startling that it seems incredible that there could be any solution at all! But there is indeed a solution — moreover, one that requires a chain of lesser puzzles to be solved first. The reader is thus taken on a journey through a maze of subsidiary problems that has all the earmarks of an entertaining detective story.This book leads the unwary ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Benford's Law

    Theory and Applications

    Edited by Steven J. Miller ...
    Benford's law states that the leading digits of many data sets are not uniformly distributed from one through nine, but rather exhibit a profound bias. This bias is evident in everything from electricity bills and street addresses to stock prices, population numbers, mortality rates, and the lengths of rivers. Here, Steven Miller brings together many of the world’s leading experts on Benford’s law ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Probabilities

    The Little Numbers That Rule Our Lives

    by Peter Olofsson ...
    Praise for the First Edition“If there is anything you want to know, or remind yourself, about probabilities, then look no further than this comprehensive, yet wittily written and enjoyable, compendium of how to apply probability calculations in real-world situations.”- Keith Devlin, Stanford University, National Public Radio’s “Math Guy” and author of The Math Gene and The Unfinished GameFrom ... Read more

    $44.00 USD

  • Mathematical Olympiad Treasures

    by Titu Andreescu, Bogdan Enescu ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This second edition of Mathematical Olympiad Treasures contains a stimulating collection of problems in geometry and trigonometry, algebra, number theory, and combinatorics. It encourages readers to think creatively about techniques and strategies for solving real-world problems, with new sections, revisions, and many more Olympiad-like problems at various levels of difficulty.The problems are ... Read more

    $80.99 USD