If you have ever eaten food at a restaurant, had someone cook for you, or cooked something yourself, you have seen math in action. How Chefs Use Math demonstrateshow chefs use math to measure, prepare, and cook to create tasty, delicious food.
Professional baseball players rely on their managers' math skills to win baseball games. A game made of statistics, baseball requires that everyone involved be aware of how math can affect the outcome of the game—from which order players should bat to the chances of winning a game when one is losing. How Baseball Managers Use Math reveals how baseball managers use math to calculate scores and create game strategies.
This book provides a comprehensive exposition of the theory of braids, beginning with the basic mathematical definitions and structures. Among the many topics explained in detail are: the braid group for various surfaces; the solution of the word problem for the braid group; braids in the context of knots and links (Alexander's theorem); Markov's theorem and its use in obtaining braid invariants; the connection between the Platonic solids (regular polyhedra) and braids; the use of braids in the solution of algebraic equations.
Additive Number Theory: Inverse Problems and the Geometry of Sumsets
Many classical problems in additive number theory are direct problems, in which one starts with a set A of natural numbers and an integer H -> 2, and tries to describe the structure of the sumset hA consisting of all sums of h elements of A. By contrast, in an inverse problem, one starts with a sumset hA, and attempts to describe the structure of the underlying set A.
1st published 1975, Second Printing 1978. The book contains a collection of 1351 problems (with answers) in plane and solid geometry for technical schools and colleges. The problems are of varied content, involving calculations, proof, construction of diagrams, and determination of the spatial location of geometrical points. It gives sufficient problems to meet the needs of students for practical work in geometry, and the requirements of the teacher for varied material for tests, etc.
