{"title":"General Science","description":"Dover's impressive collection of popular science books covers technology and invention, space and time, basic machines and computers, forces and fields, chaos, biographies of Einstein and Newton, and much more. We publish books by the famous pioneering scientists of yesterday as well as gifted authors of the 21st century, including George Gamow, Michael Faraday, Martin Davis, Morris Kline, Emilio Segrè, Ian Stewart, and Clifford A. Pickover.","products":[{"product_id":"9780486257679","title":"The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is Gamow at his best, which means the very best in science for the layman.\" — \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eWidely recognized as one of the 20th century's foremost physicists, George Gamow was also an unusually capable popularizer of science. 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Not just a collection of anecdotes but a fair, reasoned appraisal of eccentric theory, it is unique in recognizing the scientific, philosophic, and sociological-psychological implications of the wave of pseudoscientific theories which periodically besets the world.\u003cbr\u003eTo this second revised edition of a work formerly titled \u003ci\u003eIn the Name of Science\u003c\/i\u003e, Martin Gardner has added new, up-to-date material to an already impressive account of hundreds of systematized vagaries. Here you will find discussions of hollow-earth fanatics like Symmes; Velikovsky and wandering planets; Hörbiger, Bellamy, and the theory of multiple moons; Charles Fort and the Fortean Society; dowsing and the other strange methods for finding water, ores, and oil. Also covered are such topics as naturopathy, iridiagnosis, zone therapy, food fads; Wilhelm Reich and orgone sex energy; L. Ron Hubbard and Dianetics; A. Korzybski and General Semantics. 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Martin's first Dover books were published in 1956 and 1957: \u003ci\u003eMathematics, Magic and Mystery,\u003c\/i\u003e one of the first popular books on the intellectual excitement of mathematics to reach a wide audience, and \u003ci\u003eFads and Fallacies in the Name of Science,\u003c\/i\u003e certainly one of the first popular books to cast a devastatingly skeptical eye on the claims of pseudoscience and the many guises in which the modern world has given rise to it. Both of these pioneering books are still in print with Dover today along with more than a dozen other titles of Martin's books. They run the gamut from his elementary \u003ci\u003eCodes, Ciphers and Secret Writing,\u003c\/i\u003e which has been enjoyed by generations of younger readers since the 1980s, to the more demanding \u003ci\u003eThe New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings,\u003c\/i\u003e which Dover published in its final revised form in 2005.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo those of us who have been associated with Dover for a long time, however, Martin was more than an author, albeit a remarkably popular and successful one. As a member of the small group of long-time advisors and consultants, which included NYU's Morris Kline in mathematics, Harvard's I. Bernard Cohen in the history of science, and MIT's J. P. 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Entirely modern in its data and conclusions, it reveals the surprising sophistication of certain areas of early science, particularly Babylonian mathematics. \u003cbr\u003eAfter a discussion of the number systems used in the ancient Near East (contrasting the Egyptian method of additive computations with unit fractions and Babylonian place values), Dr. Neugebauer covers Babylonian tables for numerical computation, approximations of the square root of 2 (with implications that the Pythagorean Theorem was known more than a thousand years before Pythagoras), Pythagorean numbers, quadratic equations with two unknowns, special cases of logarithms and various other algebraic and geometric cases. Babylonian strength in algebraic and numerical work reveals a level of mathematical development in many aspects comparable to the mathematics of the early Renaissance in Europe. This is in contrast to the relatively primitive Egyptian mathematics. In the realm of astronomy, too, Dr. Neugebauer describes an unexpected sophistication, which is interpreted less as the result of millennia of observations (as used to be the interpretation) than as a competent mathematical apparatus. The transmission of this early science and its further development in Hellenistic times is also described. An Appendix discusses certain aspects of Greek astronomy and the indebtedness of the Copernican system to Ptolemaic and Islamic methods.\u003cbr\u003eDr. Neugebauer has long enjoyed an international reputation as one of the foremost workers in the area of premodern science. Many of his discoveries have revolutionized earlier understandings. In this volume he presents a non-technical survey, with much material unique on this level, which can be read with great profit by all interested in the history of science or history of culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eReprint, with corrections, of the 2nd, 1957 edition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBonus Editorial Feature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eOtto Neugebauer: Exacting History  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeugebauer's \u003ci\u003eThe Exact Sciences in Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e became an instant unique classic of scientific literature when first published in 1951 in the United States and in Copenhagen where he had lived and worked for some years after having been forced out of Germany because of his opposition to National Socialism. At the start of World War II, Otto Neugebauer (1899–1990) left Europe for Brown University where he founded the History of Mathematics Department. Years later a colleague at Brown recalled Neugebauer's eloquent summary of the dark years in Germany: \"If you never heard the sound of Nazi boots below you in the street, you cannot understand the history of the period.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1980s he moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He wrote several books and many articles in addition to \u003ci\u003eThe Exact Sciences in Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e. His monumental three-volume \u003ci\u003eHistory of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy\u003c\/i\u003e (1975) is the definitive work on the subject. Dover reprinted \u003ci\u003eThe Exact Sciences in Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e in 1969.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCritical Acclaim for Otto Neugebauer:\u003cbr\u003e\"Otto Neugebauer was the most original and productive scholar of the history of the exact sciences, perhaps of the history of science, of our age. He began as a mathematician, turned first to Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics, and then took up the history of mathematical astronomy, to which he afterward devoted the greatest part of his attention. In a career of sixty-five years, he to a great extent created our understanding of mathematical astronomy from Babylon and Egypt, through Greco-Roman antiquity, to India, Islam, and Europe of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Through his colleagues, students, and many readers, his influence on the study of the history of the exact sciences remains profound, even definitive.\" ― N. M. 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This is the first sustained visual account of many important topics in relativity theory that up till now have only been treated separately.\u003cbr\u003eFinding a perfect analogy in the situation of the geometrical characters in \u003ci\u003eFlatland, \u003c\/i\u003eProfessor Rucker continues the adventures of the two-dimensional world visited by a three-dimensional being to explain our three-dimensional world in terms of the fourth dimension. Following this adventure into the fourth dimension, the author discusses non-Euclidean geometry, curved space, time as a higher dimension, special relativity, time travel, and the shape of space-time. The mathematics is sound throughout, but the casual reader may skip those few sections that seem too purely mathematical and still follow the line of argument. Readable and interesting in itself, the annotated bibliography is a valuable guide to further study.\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Rucker teaches mathematics at the State University of New York in Geneseo. Students and laymen will find his discussion to be unusually stimulating. Experienced mathematicians and physicists will find a great deal of original material here and many unexpected novelties. 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Can one find a natural aesthetic that corresponds to a universal order? If so, what importance can it have for the scientist, artist, or layman? What is the \"true\" significance of the triangle, rectangle, spiral, and other geometric shapes? These are but a few of the questions that Professor Matila Ghyka deals with in this fascinating book. The author believes that there are such things as \"The Mathematics of Life\" and \"The Mathematics of Art,\" and that the two coincide. Using simple mathematical formulas, most as basic as Pythagoras' theorem and requiring only a very limited knowledge of mathematics, Professor Ghyka shows the fascinating relationships between geometry, aesthetics, nature, and the human body.\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with ideas from Plato, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Ockham, Kepler, and others, the author explores the outlines of an abstract science of space, which includes a theory of proportions, an examination of \"the golden section,\" a study of regular and semi-regular polyhedral, and the interlinking of these various shapes and forms. He then traces the transmission of this spatial science through the Pythagorean tradition and neo-Pythagorism, Greek, and Gothic canons of proportion, the Kabbala, Masonic traditions and symbols, and modern applications in architecture, painting, and decorative art. When we judge a work of art, according to his formulation, we are making it conform to a pattern whose outline is laid down in simple geometrical figures; and it is the analysis of these figures both in art and nature that forms the core of Professor Ghyka's book. He also shows this geometry at work in living organisms. The ample illustrations and figures give concrete examples of the author's analysis: the Great Pyramid and tomb of Rameses IV, the Parthenon, Renaissance paintings and architecture, the work of Seurat, Le Corbusier, and flowers, shells, marine life, the human face, and much more. \u003cbr\u003eFor the philosopher, scientist, archaeologist, art historian, biologist, poet, and artist as well as the general reader who wants to understand more about the fascinating properties of numbers and geometry, and their relationship to art and life, this is a thought-provoking book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eReprint of the 1946 edition.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Matila Ghyka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159412949313,"sku":"9780486235424","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/3262\/5985\/products\/9780486235424.jpg?v=1710206626"},{"product_id":"9780486240619","title":"An Introduction to Information Theory","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Uncommonly good...the most satisfying discussion to be found.\" — \u003ci\u003eScientific American.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBehind the familiar surfaces of the telephone, radio, and television lies a sophisticated and intriguing body of knowledge known as information theory. This is the theory that has permitted the rapid development of all sorts of communication, from color television to the clear transmission of photographs from the vicinity of Jupiter. Even more revolutionary progress is expected in the future.\u003cbr\u003eTo give a solid introduction to this burgeoning field, J. R. Pierce has revised his well-received 1961 study of information theory for a second edition. Beginning with the origins of the field, Dr. Pierce follows the brilliant formulations of Claude Shannon and describes such aspects of the subject as encoding and binary digits, entropy, language and meaning, efficient encoding, and the noisy channel. He then goes beyond the strict confines of the topic to explore the ways in which information theory relates to physics, cybernetics, psychology, and art. Mathematical formulas are introduced at the appropriate points for the benefit of serious students. A glossary of terms and an appendix on mathematical notation are proved to help the less mathematically sophisticated.\u003cbr\u003eJ. R. Pierce worked for many years at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he became Director of Research in Communications Principles. His \u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Information Theory\u003c\/i\u003e continues to be the most impressive nontechnical account available and a fascinating introduction to the subject for lay readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eReprint of \u003ci\u003eSymbols, Signals and Noise: The Nature and Process of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e, 1980.\u003c\/div\u003e signal; book; cancelling; math; design; abstract; number; artificial; understanding; music; light; data; probability; science; programming; equations; fundamentals; balance; text; intelligence; visualization; technical; matter; textbook; library; ","brand":"John R. 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Stahl\u003cbr\u003e\"Indeed, seeing that so much of Greek is mathematics, it is arguable that, if one would understand the Greek genius fully, it would be a good plan to begin with their geometry.\" \u003cbr\u003eThe perspective that enabled Sir Thomas Heath to understand the Greek genius — deep intimacy with languages, literatures, philosophy, and all the sciences — brought him perhaps closer to his beloved subjects and to their own ideal of educated men, than is common or even possible today. Heath read the original texts with a critical, scrupulous eye, and brought to this definitive two-volume history the insights of a mathematician communicated with the clarity of classically taught English. \u003cbr\u003e\"Of all the manifestations of the Greek genius none is more impressive and even awe-inspiring than that which is revealed by the history of Greek mathematics.\" Heath records that history with the scholarly comprehension and comprehensiveness that marks this work as obviously classic now as when it first appeared in 1921. The linkage and unity of mathematics and philosophy suggest the outline for the entire history. Heath covers in sequence Greek numerical notation, Pythagorean arithmetic, Thales and Pythagorean geometry, Zeno, Plato, Euclid, Aristarchus, Archimedes, Apollonius, Hipparchus and trigonometry, Ptolemy, Heron, Pappus, Diophantus of Alexandria and the algebra. Interspersed are sections devoted to the history and analysis of famous problems: squaring the circle, angle trisection, duplication of the cube, and an appendix on Archimedes' proof of the subtangent property of a spiral. The coverage is everywhere thorough and judicious; but Heath is not content with plain exposition: \u003cbr\u003eIt is a defect in the existing histories that, while they state generally the contents of, and the main propositions proved in, the great treatises of Archimedes and Apollonius, they make little attempt to describe the procedure by which the results are obtained. I have therefore taken pains, in the most significant cases, to show the course of the argument in sufficient detail to enable a competent mathematician to grasp the method used and to apply it, if he will, to other similar investigations. \u003cbr\u003eMathematicians, then, will rejoice to find Heath back in print and accessible after many years. Historians of Greek culture and science can renew acquaintance with a standard reference; readers in general will find, particularly in the energetic discourses on Euclid and Archimedes, exactly what Heath means by \u003ci\u003eimpressive and awe-inspiring\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eReprint of the Oxford University Press, 1921 edition.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBonus Editorial Feature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Little Heath: Bringing the Past to Life  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Little Heath (1861–1940) was unusual for an authority on many esoteric, and many less esoteric, subjects in the history of mathematics in that he was never a university professor. The son of an English farmer from Lincolnshire, Heath demonstrated his academic gifts at a young age; studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1879 to 1882; came away with numerous awards; and obtained the top grade in the 1884 English Civil Service examination. From that foundation, he went to work in the English Treasury, rose through the ranks, and by 1913, was permanent secretary to the Treasury, effectively the head of its operations. He left that post in 1919 at the end of the first World War, worked several years at the National Debt office, and retired in 1926.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring all of that time, however, he became independently one of the world's leading authorities on the history of mathematics, especially on the history of ancient Greek mathematics. Heath's three-volume edition of \u003ci\u003eEuclid\u003c\/i\u003e is still the standard, it is generally accepted that it is primarily through Heath's great work on Archimedes that the accomplishments of Archimedes are known as well as they are.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDover has reprinted these and other books by Heath, preserving over several decades a unique legacy in the history of mathematical scholarship.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Author's Own Words:\u003cbr\u003e\"The works of Archimedes are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the propositions, the stern elimination of everything not immediately relevant to the purpose, the finish of the whole, are so impressive in their perfection as to create a feeling akin to awe in the mind of the reader.\" — Thomas L. Heath \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sir Thomas Heath","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159443587393,"sku":"9780486240732","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/3262\/5985\/products\/9780486240732_616310d9-1f1e-4856-a0a9-0b2e7e6390a6.jpg?v=1710181867"},{"product_id":"9780486240749","title":"A History of Greek Mathematics, Volume II","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As it is, the book is indispensable; it has, indeed, no serious English rival.\" — \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Sir Thomas Heath, foremost English historian of the ancient exact sciences in the twentieth century.\" — Prof. W. H. Stahl\u003cbr\u003e\"Indeed, seeing that so much of Greek is mathematics, it is arguable that, if one would understand the Greek genius fully, it would be a good plan to begin with their geometry.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe perspective that enabled Sir Thomas Heath to understand the Greek genius — deep intimacy with languages, literatures, philosophy, and all the sciences — brought him perhaps closer to his beloved subjects, and to their own ideal of educated men than is common or even possible today. Heath read the original texts with a critical, scrupulous eye and brought to this definitive two-volume history the insights of a mathematician communicated with the clarity of classically taught English.\u003cbr\u003e\"Of all the manifestations of the Greek genius none is more impressive and even awe-inspiring than that which is revealed by the history of Greek mathematics.\" Heath records that history with the scholarly comprehension and comprehensiveness that marks this work as obviously classic now as when it first appeared in 1921. The linkage and unity of mathematics and philosophy suggest the outline for the entire history. Heath covers in sequence Greek numerical notation, Pythagorean arithmetic, Thales and Pythagorean geometry, Zeno, Plato, Euclid, Aristarchus, Archimedes, Apollonius, Hipparchus and trigonometry, Ptolemy, Heron, Pappus, Diophantus of Alexandria and the algebra. Interspersed are sections devoted to the history and analysis of famous problems: squaring the circle, angle trisection, duplication of the cube, and an appendix on Archimedes's proof of the subtangent property of a spiral. The coverage is everywhere thorough and judicious; but Heath is not content with plain exposition: It is a defect in the existing histories that, while they state generally the contents of, and the main propositions proved in, the great treatises of Archimedes and Apollonius, they make little attempt to describe the procedure by which the results are obtained. I have therefore taken pains, in the most significant cases, to show the course of the argument in sufficient detail to enable a competent mathematician to grasp the method used and to apply it, if he will, to other similar investigations.\u003cbr\u003eMathematicians, then, will rejoice to find Heath back in print and accessible after many years. Historians of Greek culture and science can renew acquaintance with a standard reference; readers in general will find, particularly in the energetic discourses on Euclid and Archimedes, exactly what Heath means by \u003ci\u003eimpressive and awe-inspiring.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eReprint of the Oxford University Press, 1921 edition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBonus Editorial Feature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Little Heath: Bringing the Past to Life  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Little Heath (1861–1940) was unusual for an authority on many esoteric, and many less esoteric, subjects in the history of mathematics in that he was never a university professor. The son of an English farmer from Lincolnshire, Heath demonstrated his academic gifts at a young age; studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1879 to 1882; came away with numerous awards; and obtained the top grade in the 1884 English Civil Service examination. From that foundation, he went to work in the English Treasury, rose through the ranks, and by 1913, was permanent secretary to the Treasury, effectively the head of its operations. He left that post in 1919 at the end of the first World War, worked several years at the National Debt office, and retired in 1926.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring all of that time, however, he became independently one of the world's leading authorities on the history of mathematics, especially on the history of ancient Greek mathematics. 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This is an enlarging and a brilliant book.\" ― \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dr. Morris Kline has succeeded brilliantly in explaining the nature of much that is basic in math, and how it is used in science.\" ― \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSince the major branches of mathematics grew and expanded in conjunction with science, the most effective way to appreciate and understand mathematics is in terms of the study of nature. Unfortunately, the relationship of mathematics to the study of nature is neglected in dry, technique-oriented textbooks, and it has remained for Professor Morris Kline to describe the simultaneous growth of mathematics and the physical sciences in this remarkable book. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn a manner that reflects both erudition and enthusiasm, the author provides a stimulating account of the development of basic mathematics from arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, to calculus, differential equations, and the non-Euclidean geometries. At the same time, Dr. Kline shows how mathematics is used in optics, astronomy, motion under the law of gravitation, acoustics, electromagnetism, and other phenomena. Historical and biographical materials are also included, while mathematical notation has been kept to a minimum. \u003cbr\u003eThis is an excellent presentation of mathematical ideas from the time of the Greeks to the modern era. It will be of great interest to the mathematically inclined high school and college student, as well as to any reader who wants to understand ― perhaps for the first time ― the true greatness of mathematical achievements.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eReprint of the corrected 1981 edition.\u003c\/div\u003e musical sounds;math textbooks;integral calculus;mathematical approach;projective geometry;math knowledge;renaissance painters;school mathematics;explaining math;mathematical discoveries;hated math;arts students;mathematical topics;mind allows;college math;elementary math;non-euclidean geometry;quadratic equations;euclidean geometry;sound waves;taught math;understand math;advanced concepts;modern mathematics;edward gibbon;hate math;mathematical thinking;math history;mathematical theory;teaching company;copernican theory;school math;heaps praise;mathematical concepts;historical development;classical greek;math concepts;somewhat embarrassed;math teacher;liberal arts;western culture;historical background;algebras;nonmathematician;pythagoreans;lobachevsky;bolyai;trigonometric;projectiles;geometries;non-mathematicians;trigonometry;babylonians;gravitation;eratosthenes;derivation;circumference;differential;kepler;arithmetic;radius;velocity;descartes;dover;galileo;egyptians;mathematicians;formulas;arabs;plato;newton;equation;greeks;thinkers;tremendously;physics;motion;books on arts students;books on elementary maths;books on integral calculus;books on math textbooks;books on mathematical topics;books on school mathematics;books on modern mathematics;books on college maths;books on mathematical approaches;books on non-euclidean geometries;books on mathematical discoveries;books on musical sounds;books on math knowledges;books on renaissance painters;books on projective geometries","brand":"Morris Kline","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159446372673,"sku":"9780486241043","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/3262\/5985\/products\/9780486241043.jpg?v=1710181878"},{"product_id":"9780486242149","title":"Probability, Statistics and Truth","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe science of probability — the systematic study of mass phenomena and repetitive events — was not fully established as such until about 1919. Nine years later, Richard von Mises, one of it pioneers, brought out the first edition of this book — what has become the classic treatment of the foundations of probability theory. The present text reproduces the most authoritative translation of the definitive 1951 German edition, which was fully revised in the light of over two decades of developments in the field.\u003cbr\u003eStep by step, in clear, simple language and with exceptionally well chosen examples, the author unfolds what in all likelihood is still the most comprehensive investigation ever undertaken of probability, its relation to statistic, and its truth-finding value. Professor Richard von Mises (1883–1953) was a world-renowned mathematician, aeronautical scientists, and positivist philosopher. Like all of his books, this one is rigorously logical and systematic, and at the same time thoroughly grounded in empirical evidence and practical situations.\u003cbr\u003eFirst, Professor Mises derives a logically clear concept of probability and applies it to the idea of a \"collective.\" He takes into account all the significant earlier approaches — from that of Pascal to those of Laplace, Poisson, Venn, Keynes, and others. He devotes particular attention to the theories that appear to contradict his own. Then he determines \"the task of probability calculus in mathematical statistics.\" The Laws of Large Numbers, the theory of errors, and many other relevant topics are thoroughly explored. Professor Mises brings his lucid conceptualizations to bear on virtually every significant practical application of probability and statistics — from \"absolutely safe\" gambling systems, through the sex distribution of infants, to the phenomena of radioactivity.\u003cbr\u003eDespite its sophistication, this book requires no knowledge of higher mathematics. Yet physicists will appreciate its substantial discussion of the crucial place of statistical problems in modern physics. 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In the process of trying to square the circle, trisect the angle and duplicate the cube, other mathematical discoveries were made; for these seemingly trivial diversions occupied some of history's great mathematical minds. Why did Archimedes, Euclid, Newton, Fermat, Gauss, Descartes among so many devote themselves to these conundrums? This book brings readers actively into historical and modern procedures for working the problems, and into the new mathematics that had to be invented before they could be \"solved.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe quest for the circle in the square, the trisected angle, duplicated cube and other straight-edge-compass constructions may be conveniently divided into three periods: from the Greeks, to seventeenth-century calculus and analytic geometry, to nineteenth-century sophistication in irrational and transcendental numbers. Mathematics teacher Benjamin Bold devotes a chapter to each problem, with additional chapters on complex numbers and analytic criteria for constructability. The author guides amateur straight-edge puzzlists into these fascinating complexities with commentary and sets of problems after each chapter. Some knowledge of calculus will enable readers to follow the problems; full solutions are given at the end of the book.\u003cbr\u003eStudents of mathematics and geometry, anyone who would like to challenge the Greeks at their own game and simultaneously delve into the development of modern mathematics, will appreciate this book. Find out how Gauss decided to make mathematics his life work upon waking one morning with a vision of a 17-sided polygon in his head; discover the crucial significance of eπi = -1, \"one of the most amazing formulas in all of mathematics.\" These famous problems, clearly explicated and diagrammed, will amaze and edify curious students and math connoisseurs.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eReprint of \u003ci\u003eFamous Problems of Mathematics: A History of Constructions with Straight Edge and Compass\u003c\/i\u003e, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 1969 edition.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Benjamin Bold","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159461052737,"sku":"9780486242972","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/3262\/5985\/products\/9780486242972_28dc455f-722a-4c11-a627-c3d74a3ac55b.jpg?v=1710435119"},{"product_id":"9780486243153","title":"Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the past, scholars have tended to dismiss the mathematics of the ancient Egyptians as \"child's play,\" compared with the achievements of the Greeks and other later civilizations. 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Drawing on all the extant sources — Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll, the Reisner Papyri, the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, and, most extensively, the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, a training manual for scribes- the author shows that although the mathematical operations of the ancient Egyptians were limited in number, they were adaptable to a great many applications. Professor Gillings is also at pains to debunk such myths as the numerical mysticism that arose in connection with the construction of the great Pyramids, and the oft-repeated assertion that the Egyptians were conversant with the Pythagorean Theorem.\u003cbr\u003eEnhanced with photographs of age-old papyri and other artifacts, as well as the author's own calligraphic renderings of hieroglyphic and hieratic words and numerals, this carefully researched and well-presented study will fascinate Egyptologists, mathematicians, engineers, archaeologists, and any student or admirer of the remarkable civilization that flourished on the shores of the Nile so many centuries ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eReprint of the MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972 edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard J. 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Here's a sampling of the amazingly effective techniques you will learn in minutes: Adding by 10 Groups; No-Carry Addition; Subtraction Without Borrowing; Multiplying by Aliquot Parts; Test for Divisibility by Odd and Even Numbers; Simplifying Dividends and Divisors; Fastest Way to Add or Subtract Any Pair of Fractions; Multiplying and Dividing with Mixed Numbers, and more.\u003cbr\u003eThe short-cuts in this book require no special math ability. If you can do ordinary arithmetic, you will have no trouble with these methods. There are no complicated formulas or unfamiliar jargon — no long drills or exercises. For each problem, the author provides an explanation of the method and a step-by-step solution. 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In addition, he presents a large variety of proofs designed to strengthen mathematical techniques and offers challenging opportunities to have fun with mathematics. \u003cbr\u003eTen major topics — profusely illustrated — include: Mathematical Models, Elementary Concepts of Graph Theory, Transportation Problems, Connection Problems, Party Problems, Digraphs and Mathematical Models, Games and Puzzles, Graphs and Social Psychology, Planar Graphs and Coloring Problems, and Graphs and Other Mathematics. \u003cbr\u003eA useful Appendix covers Sets, Relations, Functions, and Proofs, and a section devoted to exercises — with answers, hints, and solutions — is especially valuable to anyone encountering graph theory for the first time. \u003cbr\u003eUndergraduate mathematics students at every level, puzzlists, and mathematical hobbyists will find well-organized coverage of the fundamentals of graph theory in this highly readable and thoroughly enjoyable book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eReprint of \u003ci\u003eGraphs as Mathematical Models\u003c\/i\u003e, Prindle, Weber \u0026amp; Schmidt, Inc., Boston, 1977.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBonus Editorial Feature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eSix Degrees of Paul Erdos  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContrary to popular belief, mathematicians do quite often have fun. Take, for example, the phenomenon of the Erdos number. Paul Erdos (1913–1996), a prominent and productive Hungarian mathematician who traveled the world collaborating with other mathematicians on his research papers. Ultimately, Erdos published about 1,400 papers, by far the most published by any individual mathematician.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout 1970, a group of Erdos's friends and collaborators created the concept of the \"Erdos number\" to define the \"collaborative distance\" between Erdos and other mathematicians. Erdos himself was assigned an Erdos number of 0. A mathematician who collaborated directly with Erdos himself on a paper (there are 511 such individuals) has an Erdos number of 1. 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But there is one other motive which is as strong as any of these — the search for beauty. Mathematics is an art, and as such affords the pleasures which all the arts afford.\" In this erudite, entertaining college-level text, Morris Kline, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at New York University, provides the liberal arts student with a detailed treatment of mathematics in a cultural and historical context. The book can also act as a self-study vehicle for advanced high school students and laymen. \u003cbr\u003eProfessor Kline begins with an overview, tracing the development of mathematics to the ancient Greeks, and following its evolution through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the present day. Subsequent chapters focus on specific subject areas, such as \"Logic and Mathematics,\" \"Number: The Fundamental Concept,\" \"Parametric Equations and Curvilinear Motion,\" \"The Differential Calculus,\" and \"The Theory of Probability.\" Each of these sections offers a step-by-step explanation of concepts and then tests the student's understanding with exercises and problems. At the same time, these concepts are linked to pure and applied science, engineering, philosophy, the social sciences or even the arts.\u003cbr\u003eIn one section, Professor Kline discusses non-Euclidean geometry, ranking it with evolution as one of the \"two concepts which have most profoundly revolutionized our intellectual development since the nineteenth century.\" His lucid treatment of this difficult subject starts in the 1800s with the pioneering work of Gauss, Lobachevsky, Bolyai and Riemann, and moves forward to the theory of relativity, explaining the mathematical, scientific and philosophical aspects of this pivotal breakthrough. \u003ci\u003eMathematics for the Nonmathematician\u003c\/i\u003e exemplifies Morris Kline's rare ability to simplify complex subjects for the nonspecialist.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eReprint of \u003ci\u003eMathematics for Liberal Arts,\u003c\/i\u003e Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, 1967. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBonus Editorial Feature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eMorris Kline: Mathematics for the Masses  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorris Kline (1908–1992) had a strong and forceful personality which he brought both to his position as Professor at New York University from 1952 until his retirement in 1975, and to his role as the driving force behind Dover's mathematics reprint program for even longer, from the 1950s until just a few years before his death. Professor Kline was the main reviewer of books in mathematics during those years, filling many file drawers with incisive, perceptive, and always handwritten comments and recommendations, pro or con. It was inevitable that he would imbue the Dover math program ― which he did so much to launch ― with his personal point of view that what mattered most was the quality of the books that were selected for reprinting and the point of view that stressed the importance of applications and the usefulness of mathematics. He urged that books should concentrate on demonstrating how mathematics could be used to solve problems in the real world, not solely for the creation of intellectual structures of theoretical interest to mathematicians only.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMorris Kline was the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including \u003ci\u003eMathematics in Western Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford, 1953), \u003ci\u003eMathematics: The Loss of Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford, 1980), and \u003ci\u003eMathematics and the Search for Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford, 1985). His \u003ci\u003eCalculus, An Intuitive and Physical Approach,\u003c\/i\u003e first published in 1967 and reprinted by Dover in 1998, remains a widely used text, especially by readers interested in taking on the sometimes daunting task of studying the subject on their own. His 1985 Dover book, \u003ci\u003eMathematics for the Nonmathematician\u003c\/i\u003e could reasonably be regarded as the ultimate math for liberal arts text and may have reached more readers over its long life than any other similarly directed text.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Author's Own Words:\u003cbr\u003e\"Mathematics is the key to understanding and mastering our physical, social and biological worlds.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.\" ― Morris Kline\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e explaining math;  non-mathematician; mathematical approach; school math; homeschooling; understand math; math concept; mathematical thinking; mathematical topic; modern math; non-Euclidean geometry; trigonometry; math history; math teacher; quadratic","brand":"Morris Kline","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159488512321,"sku":"9780486248233","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/3262\/5985\/products\/9780486248233_9b42cb81-7a1f-4855-aa92-bf311506cf95.jpg?v=1710207550"},{"product_id":"9780486248950","title":"Thirty Years that Shook Physics","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dr. Gamow, physicist and gifted writer, has sketched an intriguing portrait of the scientists and clashing ideas that made the quantum revolution.\" — \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIn 1900, German physicist Max Planck postulated that light, or radiant energy, can exist only in the form of discrete packages or \u003ci\u003equanta\u003c\/i\u003e. 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This \"insider's\" vantage point lends special validity to his careful, accessible explanations of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Niels Bohr's model of the atom, the pilot waves of Louis de Broglie and other path-breaking ideas.\u003cbr\u003eIn addition, Gamow recounts a wealth of revealing personal anecdotes which give a warm human dimension to many giants of 20th-century physics. He ends the book with the Blegdamsvej \u003ci\u003eFaust\u003c\/i\u003e, a delightful play written in 1932 by Niels Bohr's students and colleagues to satirize the epochal developments that were revolutionizing physics. 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A new Postscript, examining the latest developments in the field, and specially written for this edition, is also included. \u003cbr\u003eThe clarity of the text is especially enhanced by the brilliant graphics of Anthony Ravielli, making this \"by far the best layman's account of this difficult subject.\" — \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor. \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eReprint of \u003ci\u003eThe Relativity Explosion, \u003c\/i\u003epublished by Vintage Books, New York, 1976.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBonus Editorial Feature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartin Gardner: A Remembrance  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe worldwide mathematical community was saddened by the death of Martin Gardner on May 22, 2010. Martin was 95 years old when he died, and had written 70 or 80 books during his long lifetime as an author. 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They run the gamut from his elementary \u003ci\u003eCodes, Ciphers and Secret Writing,\u003c\/i\u003e which has been enjoyed by generations of younger readers since the 1980s, to the more demanding \u003ci\u003eThe New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings,\u003c\/i\u003e which Dover published in its final revised form in 2005.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo those of us who have been associated with Dover for a long time, however, Martin was more than an author, albeit a remarkably popular and successful one. As a member of the small group of long-time advisors and consultants, which included NYU's Morris Kline in mathematics, Harvard's I. Bernard Cohen in the history of science, and MIT's J. P. 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