Mathematics and Physics (Ferguson's Careers in Focus)Ever wonder what to do with your Mathematics major? This book focuses on: Accountants and Auditors; Actuaries; Architects; Assessors and Appraisers;] Ever wonder what to do with your Mathematics major? This book focuses on: Accountants and Auditors; Actuaries; Architects; Assessors and Appraisers; Astronomers; Astrophysicists; Bookkeeping and Accounting Clerks; Cashiers; Computer Programmers; Credit Analysts; Demographers; Economists; Financial Planners; Marketing Research Analysts; Mathematicians; Mathematics Teachers;...
It boggles the mind, trying to come up with the answers to these totally perplexing stumpers.
Over 95 all-time bewildering puzzles are designed to confound, confuse and make you cry.
So take the challenge.
The World's Most Baffling 'Juggling' Puzzle, the World's Most Baffling 'Magic Square' Puzzle, the World's Most Baffling 'Number' Puzzle, the World's Most Baffling 'Dice' Puzzle, the World's Most Baffling 'Elevator' Puzzle, and loads more.
If you can match minds with the greatest brains, then you have a chance of solving these puzzles. Try this one right now:
"A word 1 know.
Six letters it contains;
Subtract just one
And twelve, you'll find, remains."
If you can prove that six minus one equals twelve, you win the prize for smart thinking!
If you miss it, or any others in this book, all the answers are in the back. Great cartoons and illustrations will help and entertain, while your brain gets to work on these topnotch, tricky challenges.
Where did math come from? Who thought up all those algebra symbols, and why? What's the story behind ...negative numbers? ...the metric system? ...quadratic equations? ...sine and cosine? The 25 independent sketches in "Math through the Ages" answer these questions and many others in an informal, easygoing style that's accessible to teachers, students, and anyone who is curious about the history of mathematical ideas. Each sketch contains Questions and Projects to help you learn more about its topic and to see how its main ideas fit into the bigger picture of history.
Norm Derivatives and Characterizations of Inner Product Spaces
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the characterizations of real normed spaces as inner product spaces based on norm derivatives and generalizations of the most basic geometrical properties of triangles in normed spaces. Since the appearance of Jordan-von Neumann's classical theorem (The Parallelogram Law) in 1935, the field of characterizations of inner product spaces has received a significant amount of attention in various literature texts.
