Experiments in Undergraduate Mathematics: A Mathematica-Based Approach
All students need to master a variety of mathematical tools and concepts at the start of their university career. This distinctive book helps students learn these by doing. The approach is interactive, using experiments, performed in the symbolic algebra package Mathematica, to impart the fundamentals of many of the topics students encounter. A clear exposition of the topic accompanies every experiment.
This undergraduate textbook is written for a junior/senior level course on linear optimization. Unlike other texts, the treatment follows the "modified Moore method" approach in which examples and proof opportunities are worked into the text in order to encourage students to develop some of the content through their own experiments and arguments while they are reading the text. Additionally, the focus is on the mathematics underlying the ideas of optimizing linear functions under linear constraints and the algorithms used to solve them.
Learning and Teaching Mathematics: An International Perspective
The authors of this volume, which is newly available in paperback, all hold the view that mathematics is a form of intelligent problem solving which plays an important part in children's lives outside the classroom as well as in it. Learning and Teaching Mathematics provides an exciting account of recent and radically different research on teaching and learning mathematics which will have a far reaching effect on views about mathematical education.
The universal language of numbers has allowed individuals to transcend cultural differences and make collaborative efforts to comprehend the world mathematically. Though many of these mathematicians may never have met the predecessors who made their own work possible, their collective works form the foundations of mathematics as it is known today. The books in this series introduce students not only to the theories and formulas that form the basis of each field of mathematics, but to the individuals who dedicated their lives to pushing numerical boundaries
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;...
