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  • MATHEMATICIANS PLAYING GAMES
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    MATHEMATICIANS PLAYING GAMES
    JON-LARK KIM
    Mathematicians Playing Games explores a wide variety of popular mathematical games, including their historical beginnings and the mathematical theories that underpin them. Its academic level is suitable for high school students and higher, but people of any age or level will find something to entertain them, and something new to learn. It would be a fantastic resource for high ...

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  • MIRACLES, MYSTICS, MATHEMATICIANS
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    MIRACLES, MYSTICS, MATHEMATICIANS
    SASHO KALAJDZIEVSKI
    Miracles, Mystics, Mathematicians: Searching for Deep Reality focuses on the lives and writings of some of history’s most influential mathematicians and the impact that their mystical beliefs had on their lives and on their mathematical work. Modern biographers often cleanse the lives of renowned scientists of any hint of mysticism or occultism. Such threads are sometimes regar...

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  • DESIGN TECHNIQUES FOR ORIGAMI TESSELLATIONS
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    DESIGN TECHNIQUES FOR ORIGAMI TESSELLATIONS
    YOHEI YAMAMOTO / JUN MITANI
    Design Techniques for Origami Tessellations is both a collection of origami tessellations and a manual to design them. This book begins by explaining general design methods, the history and definitions of origami tessellations, and the geometric features of flat origami, before moving on to introduce a brand-new design method: the "twist-based design method." This method genera...

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  • BASIC GAMBLING MATHEMATICS
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    BASIC GAMBLING MATHEMATICS
    MARK BOLLMAN
    Basic Gambling Mathematics: The Numbers Behind the Neon, Second Edition explains the mathematics involved in analyzing games of chance, including casino games, horse racing and other sports, and lotteries. The book helps readers understand the mathematical reasons why some gambling games are better for the player than others. It is also suitable as a textbook for an introductor...

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  • LATERAL SOLUTIONS TO MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS
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    LATERAL SOLUTIONS TO MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS
    DESMOND MACHALE
    Lateral Solutions to Mathematical Problems offers a fresh approach to mathematical problem solving via lateral thinking. Lateral thinking has long been used informally by good mathematics teachers and lecturers to spice up their material and interest their students in the more artistic aspects of mathematical problem solving. In this book, the author attempts to carry out this ...

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  • MATHEMATICAL CONUNDRUMS
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    MATHEMATICAL CONUNDRUMS
    BARRY R. CLARKE
    Want to sharpen your mathematical wits? If so, then Mathematical Conundrums is for you. Daily Telegraph enigmatologist, Barry R. Clarke, presents over 120 fiendish problems that will test both your ingenuity and persistence. Between these covers are puzzles in geometry, arithmetic, and algebra (there is even a section for computer programmers). And, for the smartest readers who...

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  • THE BASEBALL MYSTERIES
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    THE BASEBALL MYSTERIES
    JERRY BUTTERS / JIM HENLE
    The Baseball Mysteries: Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives is a book of baseball puzzles, logical baseball puzzles. To jump in, all you need is logic and a casual fan’s knowledge of the game. The puzzles are solved by reasoning from the rules of the game and a few facts. The logic in the puzzles is like legal reasoning. A solution must argue from evidence (the facts) an...

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  • MATHEMATICAL PUZZLE TALES FROM MOUNT OLYMPUS
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    MATHEMATICAL PUZZLE TALES FROM MOUNT OLYMPUS
    ANDY LIU
    Mathematical Puzzle Tales from Mount Olympus uses fascinating tales from Greek Mythology as the background for introducing mathematics puzzles to the general public. A background in high school mathematics will be ample preparation for using this book, and it should appeal to anyone who enjoys puzzles and recreational mathematics. Features: Combines the arts and science, and em...

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  • MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS FROM THE TOURNAMENT OF THE TOWNS
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    MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS FROM THE TOURNAMENT OF THE TOWNS
    ANDY LIU / PETER TAYLOR
    Mathematical Recreations from the Tournament of the Towns contains the complete list of problems and solutions to the International Mathematics Tournament of the Towns from Fall 2007 to Spring 2021. The primary audience for this book is the army of recreational mathematicians united under the banner of Martin Gardner. It should also have great value to students preparing for ma...

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  • FROM TROTSKY TO GÖDEL
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    FROM TROTSKY TO GÖDEL
    ANITA BURDMAN FEFERMAN
    This story of a highly intelligent observer of the turbulent 20th century who was intimately involved as the secretary and bodyguard to Leon Trotsky is based on extensive interviews with the subject, Jean van Heijenoort, and his family, friends, and colleagues. The author has captured the personal drama and the professional life of her protagonist--ranging from the political pa...

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  • NUMERICAL METHODS
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    NUMERICAL METHODS
    WOLFGANG BOEHM
    This book is written for engineers and other practitioners using numerical methods in their work and serves as a textbook for courses in applied mathematics and numerical analysis. ...

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  • USA THROUGH THE LENS OF MATHEMATICS
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    USA THROUGH THE LENS OF MATHEMATICS
    NATALI HRITONENKO / YURI YATSENKO
    The main purpose of this captivating book is to help instructors in popularizing mathematics and other subjects by considering them in a unique multidisciplinary way. This integrative technique contributes to innovative teaching strategies to improving students’ critical and problem-solving skills and broadening their scientific vision and interdisciplinary knowledge. The autho...

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  • FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS
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    FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS
    STEVE MARSCHNER / PETER SHIRLEY
    Drawing on an impressive roster of experts in the field, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Fifth Edition offers an ideal resource for computer course curricula as well as a user-friendly personal or professional reference. Focusing on geometric intuition, this book gives the necessary information for understanding how images get onto the screen by using the complementary appro...

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  • DIVIDED SPHERES
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    DIVIDED SPHERES
    EDWARD S. POPKO / CHRISTOPHER J. KITRICK
    Praise for the previous edition [. . .] Dr. Popko’s elegant new book extends both the science and the art of spherical modeling to include Computer-Aided Design and applications, which I would never have imagined when I started down this fascinating and rewarding path. His lovely illustrations bring the subject to life for all readers, including those who are not drawn to the m...

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  • MONTHLY PROBLEM GEMS
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    MONTHLY PROBLEM GEMS
    HONGWEI CHEN
    This book is an outgrowth of a collection of sixty-two problems offered in the The American Mathematical Monthly (AMM) the author has worked over the last two decades. Each selected problem has a central theme, contains gems of sophisticated ideas connected to important current research, and opens new vistas in the understanding of mathematics. The AMM problem section provides ...

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  • BREAKING BARRIERS
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    BREAKING BARRIERS
    BRIAN CAFARELLA
    The fact college students often struggle in mathematics is not new. They exhibit a great deal of anxiety, dislike, and overall disinterest. Quantitative data displaying abysmal student success rates are widely available and shared. This book explores the complexity surrounding the issue of student difficulties in community college math. Though much quantitative research focuses...

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  • LUCK, LOGIC, AND WHITE LIES
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    LUCK, LOGIC, AND WHITE LIES
    JÖRG BEWERSDORFF
    Praise for the First Edition "Luck, Logic, and White Lies teaches readers of all backgrounds about the insight mathematical knowledge can bring and is highly recommended reading among avid game players, both to better understand the game itself and to improve one’s skills." – Midwest Book Review "The best book I've found for someone new to game math is Luck, Logic and White Lie...

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  • MORPHS, MALLARDS, AND MONTAGES
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    MORPHS, MALLARDS, AND MONTAGES
    ANDREW GLASSNER
    This book is for everyone who's interested in computer graphics and how it can take us on exciting journeys powered by imagination and a love of discovery and invention. Each chapter investigates a unique topic and gives you the tools to continue that exploration on your own. Examine the possibilities of: - Pop-up books and cards - Reconstructing shredded documents - Crop circl...

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  • DATA SKETCHES
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    DATA SKETCHES
    NADIEH BREMER / SHIRLEY WU
    In Data Sketches, Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu document the deeply creative process behind 24 unique data visualization projects, and they combine this with powerful technical insights which reveal the mindset behind coding creatively. Exploring 12 different themes – from the Olympics to Presidents & Royals and from Movies to Myths & Legends – each pair of visualizations explor...

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  • X MARKS THE SPOT
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    X MARKS THE SPOT
    RICHARD GARFINKLE / DAVID GARFINKLE
    X Marks the Spot is written from the point of view of the users of mathematics. Since the beginning, mathematical concepts and techniques (such as arithmetic and geometry) were created as tools with a particular purpose like counting sheep and measuring land areas. Understanding those purposes leads to a greater understanding of why mathematics developed as it did. Later mathem...

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  • MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES
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    MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES
    PETER WINKLER
    Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles, but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases one's armory of techniques for doing mathematics. Mathematical Puzzles makes this connection explicit by isolating important mathematical methods, then using them to solve puzzles and prove a theorem. Features A collec...

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  • TESSELLATIONS
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    TESSELLATIONS
    ROBERT FATHAUER
    Tessellations: Mathematics, Art and Recreation aims to present a comprehensive introduction to tessellations (tiling) at a level accessible to non-specialists. Additionally, it covers techniques, tips, and templates to facilitate the creation of mathematical art based on tessellations. Inclusion of special topics like spiral tilings and tessellation metamorphoses allows the rea...

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  • GRAPHICS INTERFACE 2014
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    GRAPHICS INTERFACE 2014
    PAUL G. KRY / ANDREA BUNT
    This book is the proceedings of the 40th annual Graphics Interface conference-the oldest continuously scheduled conference in the field. The book includes high-quality papers on recent advances in interactive systems, human computer interaction, and graphics from around the world. It covers the following topics: shading and rendering, geometric modeling and meshing, image-based...

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  • VISUALIZING WITH TEXT
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    VISUALIZING WITH TEXT
    RICHARD BRATH
    Visualizing with Text uncovers the rich palette of text elements usable in visualizations from simple labels through to documents. Using a multidisciplinary research effort spanning across fields including visualization, typography, and cartography, it builds a solid foundation for the design space of text in visualization. The book illustrates many new kinds of visualizations,...

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  • ERDÖS ON GRAPHS
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    ERDÖS ON GRAPHS
    FAN CHUNG / RON GRAHAM / AT&T LABS
    This book is a tribute to Paul Erdos, the wandering mathematician once described as the "prince of problem solvers and the absolute monarch of problem posers." It examines the legacy of open problems he left to the world after his death in 1996. ...

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  • SIX SIMPLE TWISTS
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    SIX SIMPLE TWISTS
    BENJAMIN DILEONARDO-PARKER
    This new edition of Six Simple Twists: The Pleat Pattern Approach to Origami Tessellation Design introduces an innovative pleat pattern technique for origami designs that is easily accessible to anyone who enjoys the geometry of paper. The book begins with six basic forms meant to ease the reader into the style, and then systematically scaffolds the instructions to build a stro...

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  • MICROBE-ASSISTED PHYTOREMEDIATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS
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    MICROBE-ASSISTED PHYTOREMEDIATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS
    VINEET KUMAR / GAURAV SAXENA
    Microbe-Assisted Phytoremediation of Environmental Pollutants: Recent Advances and Challenges provides comprehensive information on the principles and practical knowledge of microbe-assisted phytoremediation of organic and inorganic pollutants for environmental safety. This book describes the physiological, biochemical, microbiological, and molecular basis of microbe-assisted p...

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  • INTERACTIVE VISUAL DATA ANALYSIS
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    INTERACTIVE VISUAL DATA ANALYSIS
    CHRISTIAN TOMINSKI / HEIDRUN SCHUMANN
    In the age of big data, being able to make sense of data is an important key to success. Interactive Visual Data Analysis advocates the synthesis of visualization, interaction, and automatic computation to facilitate insight generation and knowledge crystallization from large and complex data. The book provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of visual, interactive, and...

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  • ORNAMENTAL ORIGAMI
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    ORNAMENTAL ORIGAMI
    MEENAKSHI MUKERJI
    This book is a great resource for people who enjoy polyhedra, symmetry, geometry, mathematics and origami. The types of models presented are similar in nature to the models in Mukerji's Marvelous Modular Origami, but some of the chapters are more advanced and all of the designs are new. The reader can learn about polyhedra while making these models and is left with the ability ...

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  • MARVELOUS MODULAR ORIGAMI
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    MARVELOUS MODULAR ORIGAMI
    MEENAKSHI MUKERJI
    This richly illustrated book provides step-by-step instructions for the construction of over 30 different modular origami structures. The author describes basic folding techniques required to construct the “modules” that are used as building blocks to construct complex ornamental models. The diagrams are clear, crisp, and easy to follow, and are accompanied by inspiring color p...

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