Mathematical Games" is one of three titles in the " Mad About Maths" series. This is a bright colourful series designed to help Key Stage 2 children (7-11s) develop their number skills & mathematical confidence mainly by learning at home in support of their National Curriculum classroom studies. Each book is packed with mathematical puzzles & games &

Includes:: 12 pages of press-out pieces to use with the activities (counters board games etc). The books are fun & stimulating & turn a subject which many children find slightly forbidding into something which is accessible & enjoyable. Generally speaking the activities are designed for small groups as well as individuals & so encourage social as well as individual play."

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This book is intended as a textbook for a first-year Ph D course in mathematics for economists & as a reference for graduate students in economics. It provides a self-contained rigorous treatment of most of the concepts & techniques required to follow the standard first-year theory sequence in micro & macroeconomics. The topics covered include an introduction to analysis in metric spaces differential calculus comparative statics convexity static optimization dynamical systems & dynamic optimization. The book

Includes:: a large number of applications to standard economic models & over two hundred fully worked-out problems.

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The third edition of this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook is suitable for teaching all the mathematics for an undergraduate course in any of the physical sciences. As well as lucid descriptions of all the topics & many worked examples it contains over 800 exercises. New st&-alone chapters give a systematic account of the special functions of physical science cover an extended range of practical applications of complex variables & give an introduction to quantum operators. Further tabulations of relevance in statistics & numerical integration have been added. In this edition half of the exercises are provided with hints & answers & in a separate manual available to both students & their teachers complete worked solutions. The remaining exercises have no hints answers or worked solutions & can be used for unaided homework; full solutions are available to instructors on a password-protected web site www.cambridge.org/9780521679718. ...

Mathematical Olympiad competitions started in Hungary at the end of the nineteenth century & are now held internationally. They bring together able secondary school pupils who attempt to solve problems which develop their mathematical skills. Olympiad problems are unpredictable & have no obvious starting point & although they require only the skills learnt in ordinary school problems they can seem much harder. The Mathematical Olympiad Handbook" introduces readers to these challenging problems & aims to convince them that Olympiads are not just for a select minority. The book contains problems from the first 32 British Mathematical Olympiad (BMO) papers 1965-96 & gives hints & outline solutions to each problem from 1975 onwards. An overview is given of the basic mathematical skills needed & a list of books for further reading is provided. Working through the exercises provides a valuable source of extension & enrichment for all pupils & adults interested in mathematics." ...

Collected over several years by Peter Winkler of Bell Labs dozens of elegant intriguing challenges are presented in Mathematical Puzzles. The answers are easy to explain but without this book devilishly hard to find. Creative reasoning is the key to these puzzles. No involved computation or higher mathematics is necessary but your ability to construct a mathematical proof will be severly tested--even if you are a professional mathematician. For the truly adventurous there is even a chapter on unsolved puzzles. ...

Mathematical concepts & theories underpin much of the physical sciences & engineering. Yet maths is a subject that many students find challenging & even intimidating
- despite it being so central to their field of study. Mathematical Techniques provides a complete course in mathematics covering all the essential topics with which a physical sciences or engineering student should be familiar. By breaking the subject into small modular chapters the book introduces & builds on concepts in a progressive carefully-layered way
- always with an emphasis on how to use the power of maths to best effect rather than on theoretical proofs of the maths presented. With a huge array of end of chapter problems & new self-check questions the fourth edition of Mathematical Techniques provides extensive opportunities for students to build their confidence in the best way possible: by using the maths for themselves. Online Resource Centre The Online Resource Centre features the following materials for all users of the book: * Figures from the book in electronic format ready to download * A downloadable solutions manual featuring worked solutions to all end of chapter problems * Mathematica-based programs relating to the Projects featured at the end of the book

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From crime figures to health scares election polls to stock market forecasts numbers make the news all the time. But are they accurate? John Allen Paulos travels through the pages of an average newspaper revealing how mathematics is at the heart of the articles we read everyday
- even horoscopes & the sports pages
- & how often they mislead us. By understanding simple concepts such as probability chaos theory & game theory you'll be able to see through faulty statistics stock market forecasters & conspiracy theorists
- & make the figures truly add up.


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G. H. Hardy was one of this centurys finest mathematical thinkers renowned among his contemporaries as a real mathematician.. .the purest of the pure. He was also as C. P. Snow recounts in his Foreword unorthodox eccentric radical ready to talk about anything. This apology written in 1940 offers a brilliant & engaging account of mathematics as very much more than a science; when it was first published Graham Greene hailed it alongside Henry Jamess notebooks as the best account of what it was like to be a creative artist. C. P. Snows Foreword gives sympathetic & witty insights into Hardys life with its rich store of anecdotes concerning his collaboration with the brilliant Indian mathematician Ramanujan his idiosyncrasies & his passion for cricket. This is a unique account of the fascination of mathematics & of one of its most compelling exponents in modern times. ...

Dealing with mechanics & the solving of mechanical problems with the help of pure mathematics this A-Level text introduces at an early stage an appreciation of the properties of vectors. Throughout the book problems are solved using vector methods where appropriate & many worked examples are provided to illustrate each main development of a topic. A set of straightforward problems follows each section & a selection of more challenging questions appears in the miscellaneous exercises at the end of most chapters with multiple-choice questions on most topics. ...

Designed to meet the Common Core requirements of the University of London Syllabus B & other similar schemes offered by the major boards this book incorporates both modern & effective traditional approaches to mathematical understanding. Worked examples & exercises support the text. An ELBS/LPBB edition is available. ...