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Author: Bill Streifer Publisher: Jia Educational Products ISBN: 0981797504 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 192
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Professor Conundrum is a retired math professor from an Ivy League univerisity in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His long life has been filled with both triumph and profound sadness. This book traces his life, and the life of his family, from the age of 10 to 88. He solves numerous problems - both large and small - using mathematics.
Author: Bill Streifer Publisher: Jia Educational Products ISBN: 0981797504 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 192
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Professor Conundrum is a retired math professor from an Ivy League univerisity in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His long life has been filled with both triumph and profound sadness. This book traces his life, and the life of his family, from the age of 10 to 88. He solves numerous problems - both large and small - using mathematics.
Author: Jan Morris Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 9781590171899 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 194
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One of the first-ever books on gender transition, this poignant memoir by a trans woman is “the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex” (Newsweek). “A profoundly poetic story.” —The New York Times “An exquisite read.” —Maria Popova, The Marginalian The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he was not only a man, but a man’s man. Except that appearances, as James Morris had known from early childhood, can be deeply misleading. James Morris had known all his conscious life that at heart he was a woman. Conundrum, one of the earliest books to discuss transsexuality with honesty and without prurience, tells the story of James Morris’ hidden life and how he decided to bring it into the open, as he resolved first on a hormone treatment and, second, on risky experimental surgery that would turn him into the woman that he truly was.
Author: Brian Clegg Publisher: Icon Books ISBN: 1785784110 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 310
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**'Title of Most Fiendish Book goes to Conundrum: Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge by the ever-excellent science writer Brian Clegg.' Daily Mail, Books of the Year** The ultimate trial of knowledge and cunning, Conundrum features 200 cryptic puzzles and ciphers. The solutions link throughout the book – so you need to solve them all to get to the final round. With a focus on ciphers and codebreaking, Conundrum contains twenty sections, each built around a specific subject from music to literature, physics to politics. To take on Conundrum you need good general knowledge and the ability to think laterally. But if you need help, there are plenty of hints to point you in the right direction. Whether you attempt to crack it alone or work in a team, Conundrum will challenge you to the extreme. Can you take on Conundrum and win? There's only one way to find out ...
Author: Ellie Baker Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1466588489 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 287
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Designed for crafters, puzzle lovers, and pattern designers alike, Crafting Conundrums: Puzzles and Patterns for the Bead Crochet Artist provides methods, challenges, and patterns that offer a springboard for creative exploration. All are illustrated with beautiful color diagrams and photographs. Experienced bead crochet crafters looking for a project may choose to skip ahead to the pattern pages and begin crocheting from an abundance of unique, mathematically inspired designs. Those wishing to design their own patterns will find many useful tools, template patterns, and a new methodology for understanding how to do so even without using math. Puzzle lovers without previous knowledge of bead crochet will also find ample inspiration for learning the craft. The first part of the book describes the basic requirements and constraints of a bead crochet pattern and explains what makes designing in this medium so tricky. The authors present their new design framework and offer insight on how best to approach design choices and issues unique to bead crochet. The second part presents a series of bead crochet design challenges informed by colorful bits of mathematics, including topology, graph theory, knot theory, tessellations, and wallpaper groups. Each chapter in this section begins with a design puzzle accompanied by an introduction to the mathematical idea that inspired it. The authors then discuss what made the challenge difficult, present some of their solutions, and describe the thinking and ideas behind their approach. The final part contains nearly 100 original bead crochet patterns, including solutions to all the design challenges. This part also provides a tutorial on the fundamentals of bead crochet technique. Behind the deceptively simple and uniform arrangement of beads is a subtle geometry that produces compelling design challenges and fascinating mathematical structures. In color throughout, Crafting Conundrums gives both math enthusiasts and crafters an innovative approach to creating bead crochet patterns while addressing a variety of mathematically inspired design questions. Supplementary materials, including demo videos, are available on the book’s CRC Press web page.
Author: V. Mark Covington Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595327370 Category : Languages : en Pages : 220
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Full of colorful characters, "Bullfish" is a sacred cow tipping adventure that will keep readers up all night anxious to find out what happens next and at the end it leaves readers wondering "could that have really happened?" With Winwood Ho, world-renowned Paleographer, Madam Dendra psychic channeler of an antediluvian princess, Louise Meeker, obsessive compulsive barmaid and purveyor of the magical drink 'Orgasmic Mermaid on the Beach' Dr. Mischling, genetic engineer of Mermaids, Minotaurs and the inimitable Bullfish, and gambling addicted Roman Centurions Marcus and Neeman, "Bullfish" delivers a cast of characters that keep the plot twisting and turning until the highly charged ending.
Author: Ada Madison Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 110156086X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 286
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Dr. Sophie Knowles is a professor with a way of making even the most complex math problems fun for her students. But when the school's beloved librarian is found shot to death in the stacks, Sophie learns that her friend was more complex than she ever knew. Now, Sophie must take on some rigorous deduction homework before the chances for another murder on campus increase exponentially...
Author: Barry R. Clarke Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 100091674X Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 192
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Want to sharpen your mathematical wits? If so, then Mathematical Conundrums is for you. Daily Telegraph enigmatologist, Barry R. Clarke, presents over 120 fiendish problems that will test both your ingenuity and persistence. Between these covers are puzzles in geometry, arithmetic, and algebra (there is even a section for computer programmers). And, for the smartest readers who wish to stretch their mind to its limits, a selection of engaging logic and visual lateral puzzles is included. Although no puzzle requires a greater knowledge of mathematics than the high school curriculum, this collection will take you to the edge. But are you equal to the challenge? Features High-school level of mathematics is the only pre-requisite Variety of algebraic, route-drawing, and geometrical conundrums Hints section for the lateral puzzles Warm-up excercises to sharpen the wits Full solutions to every problem Barry R. Clarke has published over 1,500 puzzles in The Daily Telegraph and has contributed enigmas to New Scientist, The Sunday Times, Reader’s Digest, The Sunday Telegraph, and Prospect magazine. His book Challenging Logic Puzzles Mensa has sold over 100,000 copies. As well as a PhD in Shakespeare Studies, Barry has a master’s degree and academic publications in quantum physics. He is now working on a revised theory of the hydrogen atom. Other skills include mathematics tutor, filmmaker, comedy-sketch writer, cartoonist, computer programmer, and blues guitarist! For more information please visit http://barryispuzzled.com.
Author: Ada Madison Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101538120 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
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Dr. Sophie Knowles teaches math at Henley College in Massachusetts, but when a colleague turns up dead, it's up to her to find the killer before someone else gets subtracted.
Author: Marshall Jevons Publisher: Fawcett ISBN: 0345331583 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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At Harvard, tenure decisions are a matter of life -- or death. For Dennis Gossen, the economics department whiz kid currently being considered for tenure, it's definitely death. When he's turned down by the high-and-mighty Promotion and Tenure Committee, Gossen commits suicide. A Question of Cost Accounting... Or does he? It's hard to imagine why a young man with a brilliant scholarly future -- at Harvard or not -- would come up with an equation in which the opportunity cost of killing himself (a high price, considering his potential earnings) would be outweighed by the emotional cost of failing to receive tenure. ... Or Utility? Then two members of the P and T Committee are murdered, and it becomes clear to Professor Henry Spearman of the Economics Department that the killer must be on the committee. But which of his illustrious colleagues would have significantly increased his -- or her -- utility (i.e., happiness) by murdering a faculty member or two? Or three?
Author: Bill Streifer
Author: Bill Streifer
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Author: Barry R. Clarke
Author: Ada Madison
Author: Marshall Jevons