Rapidly multiplying rabbits are taking over the village of Chee, and soon there are so many that even the Pied Piper cannot get rid of them, but a girl named Amanda discovers a pattern that leads to a way to make the rabbits leave.

Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...

"Do you enjoy playing around with numbers and shapes? You may want to become a mathematician. Mathematicians train their brains to think in a logical way to look for patterns. With the help of the ideas in this book, you can start to think like a mathematician too"--Provided by publisher.

CALCULUS For the Practical Man by J. E. THOMPSON. Originally published in 1931. PREFACE: THIS book on simplified calculus is one of a series designed by the author and publisher for the reader with an interest in the meaning and simpler technique of mathematical science, and for those who wish to obtain a practical mastery of some of the more usual and directly useful branches of the science without the aid of a teacher. Like the other books in the...

In Go Figure! Jessica Shumway takes viewers into first-, second-, and fourth-grade classrooms where teachers have set up daily opportunities for developing, nourishing, and expanding students' number sense. See number sense routines in action as Jessica, author of Number Sense Routines, and three other teachers engage students in these quick yet numerically rich experiences that, over time, help build a strong foundation for understanding mathematics....

An explanation of challenging puzzles within the world of mathematics considers such topics as the link between a pineapple's spirals and the famous Fibonacci numbers, and the shape of the universe as reflected by a twisted strip of paper.

Rhyming anecdotes present opportunities for simple math activities and hints for solving.

An introduction to the beauty, simplicity, and fun of mathematical formulas explains their essentials and disciplines through everyday examples, mnemonics, and brain-teasing tricks.

Esta obra tiene su origen en los cursos de Matemáticas Discretas y Lógica Matemática ofrecidos por el autor en los programas de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Matemáticas de la Universidad del Norte (Colombia). La primera parte trata sobre el cálculo proposicional y presenta una introducción a la lógica de primer orden. La segunda parte del texto está dedicada al sistema axiomático de Zermelo - Fränkel para la teoría de conjuntos. Un aspecto...

Dieses essential liefert eine Einführung in die Graphentheorie; Vorkenntnisse werden dabei nicht benötigt. Ein Graph ist ein Gebilde bestehend aus Ecken und verbindenden Kanten. Wir untersuchen Kreise in Graphen (die jede Kante bzw. jede Ecke besuchen sollen), fragen uns, welche Graphen sich überschneidungsfrei zeichnen lassen, und schließlich machen wir uns an die Färbung von Graphen (wobei keine benachbarten Ecken mit derselben Farbe versehen...