Author: Gilbert Strang
Publisher: Wellesley-Cambridge Press
ISBN: 9781733146630
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Linear algebra has become the subject to know for people in quantitative disciplines of all kinds. No longer the exclusive domain of mathematicians and engineers, it is now used everywhere there is data and everybody who works with data needs to know more. This new book from Professor Gilbert Strang, author of the acclaimed Introduction to Linear Algebra, now in its fifth edition, makes linear algebra accessible to everybody, not just those with a strong background in mathematics. It takes a more active start, beginning by finding independent columns of small matrices, leading to the key concepts of linear combinations and rank and column space. From there it passes on to the classical topics of solving linear equations, orthogonality, linear transformations and subspaces, all clearly explained with many examples and exercises. The last major topics are eigenvalues and the important singular value decomposition, illustrated with applications to differential equations and image compression. A final optional chapter explores the ideas behind deep learning.
Linear Algebra for Everyone
Author: Gilbert Strang
Publisher: Wellesley-Cambridge Press
ISBN: 9781733146630
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Linear algebra has become the subject to know for people in quantitative disciplines of all kinds. No longer the exclusive domain of mathematicians and engineers, it is now used everywhere there is data and everybody who works with data needs to know more. This new book from Professor Gilbert Strang, author of the acclaimed Introduction to Linear Algebra, now in its fifth edition, makes linear algebra accessible to everybody, not just those with a strong background in mathematics. It takes a more active start, beginning by finding independent columns of small matrices, leading to the key concepts of linear combinations and rank and column space. From there it passes on to the classical topics of solving linear equations, orthogonality, linear transformations and subspaces, all clearly explained with many examples and exercises. The last major topics are eigenvalues and the important singular value decomposition, illustrated with applications to differential equations and image compression. A final optional chapter explores the ideas behind deep learning.
Publisher: Wellesley-Cambridge Press
ISBN: 9781733146630
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Linear algebra has become the subject to know for people in quantitative disciplines of all kinds. No longer the exclusive domain of mathematicians and engineers, it is now used everywhere there is data and everybody who works with data needs to know more. This new book from Professor Gilbert Strang, author of the acclaimed Introduction to Linear Algebra, now in its fifth edition, makes linear algebra accessible to everybody, not just those with a strong background in mathematics. It takes a more active start, beginning by finding independent columns of small matrices, leading to the key concepts of linear combinations and rank and column space. From there it passes on to the classical topics of solving linear equations, orthogonality, linear transformations and subspaces, all clearly explained with many examples and exercises. The last major topics are eigenvalues and the important singular value decomposition, illustrated with applications to differential equations and image compression. A final optional chapter explores the ideas behind deep learning.
The Joy of X
Author: Steven Henry Strogatz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547517653
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
A delightful tour of the greatest ideas of math, showing how math intersects with philosophy, science, art, business, current events, and everyday life, by an acclaimed science communicator and regular contributor to the "New York Times."
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547517653
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
A delightful tour of the greatest ideas of math, showing how math intersects with philosophy, science, art, business, current events, and everyday life, by an acclaimed science communicator and regular contributor to the "New York Times."
Street-Fighting Mathematics
Author: Sanjoy Mahajan
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262265591
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation. In problem solving, as in street fighting, rules are for fools: do whatever works—don't just stand there! Yet we often fear an unjustified leap even though it may land us on a correct result. Traditional mathematics teaching is largely about solving exactly stated problems exactly, yet life often hands us partly defined problems needing only moderately accurate solutions. This engaging book is an antidote to the rigor mortis brought on by too much mathematical rigor, teaching us how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation. In Street-Fighting Mathematics, Sanjoy Mahajan builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledge—from mathematics to management. Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with numerous examples, he carefully separates the tool—the general principle—from the particular application so that the reader can most easily grasp the tool itself to use on problems of particular interest. Street-Fighting Mathematics grew out of a short course taught by the author at MIT for students ranging from first-year undergraduates to graduate students ready for careers in physics, mathematics, management, electrical engineering, computer science, and biology. They benefited from an approach that avoided rigor and taught them how to use mathematics to solve real problems. Street-Fighting Mathematics will appear in print and online under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Share Alike license.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262265591
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation. In problem solving, as in street fighting, rules are for fools: do whatever works—don't just stand there! Yet we often fear an unjustified leap even though it may land us on a correct result. Traditional mathematics teaching is largely about solving exactly stated problems exactly, yet life often hands us partly defined problems needing only moderately accurate solutions. This engaging book is an antidote to the rigor mortis brought on by too much mathematical rigor, teaching us how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation. In Street-Fighting Mathematics, Sanjoy Mahajan builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledge—from mathematics to management. Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with numerous examples, he carefully separates the tool—the general principle—from the particular application so that the reader can most easily grasp the tool itself to use on problems of particular interest. Street-Fighting Mathematics grew out of a short course taught by the author at MIT for students ranging from first-year undergraduates to graduate students ready for careers in physics, mathematics, management, electrical engineering, computer science, and biology. They benefited from an approach that avoided rigor and taught them how to use mathematics to solve real problems. Street-Fighting Mathematics will appear in print and online under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Share Alike license.
Math
Author: Marilyn Burns
Publisher: Math Solutions
ISBN: 0941355195
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Humorously Uncovers the Reasons Behind Math's Dreadful Reputation and Shows us How we Can Help Prevent Our Own Children From Adopting Similar Phobic Attitudes
Publisher: Math Solutions
ISBN: 0941355195
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Humorously Uncovers the Reasons Behind Math's Dreadful Reputation and Shows us How we Can Help Prevent Our Own Children From Adopting Similar Phobic Attitudes
The Good Time Math Event Book
Author: Marilyn Burns
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780884880592
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Grade level: 4, 5, 6, e, i, t.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780884880592
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Grade level: 4, 5, 6, e, i, t.
Math for Smarty Pants
Author: Marilyn Burns
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 9780316117388
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Text, illustrations, and suggested activities offer a common-sense approach to mathematic fundamentals for those who are slightly terrified of numbers.
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 9780316117388
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Text, illustrations, and suggested activities offer a common-sense approach to mathematic fundamentals for those who are slightly terrified of numbers.
The Pupils' Arithmetic
Author: James Charles Byrnes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
A Collection of Math Lessons
Author: Marilyn Burns
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Offers inspiring, practical, classroom-tested ideas for helping students learn mathematics through problem solving.
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Offers inspiring, practical, classroom-tested ideas for helping students learn mathematics through problem solving.
Differential Equations and Linear Algebra
Author: Gilbert Strang
Publisher: Wellesley-Cambridge Press
ISBN: 9780980232790
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Differential equations and linear algebra are two central topics in the undergraduate mathematics curriculum. This innovative textbook allows the two subjects to be developed either separately or together, illuminating the connections between two fundamental topics, and giving increased flexibility to instructors. It can be used either as a semester-long course in differential equations, or as a one-year course in differential equations, linear algebra, and applications. Beginning with the basics of differential equations, it covers first and second order equations, graphical and numerical methods, and matrix equations. The book goes on to present the fundamentals of vector spaces, followed by eigenvalues and eigenvectors, positive definiteness, integral transform methods and applications to PDEs. The exposition illuminates the natural correspondence between solution methods for systems of equations in discrete and continuous settings. The topics draw on the physical sciences, engineering and economics, reflecting the author's distinguished career as an applied mathematician and expositor.
Publisher: Wellesley-Cambridge Press
ISBN: 9780980232790
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Differential equations and linear algebra are two central topics in the undergraduate mathematics curriculum. This innovative textbook allows the two subjects to be developed either separately or together, illuminating the connections between two fundamental topics, and giving increased flexibility to instructors. It can be used either as a semester-long course in differential equations, or as a one-year course in differential equations, linear algebra, and applications. Beginning with the basics of differential equations, it covers first and second order equations, graphical and numerical methods, and matrix equations. The book goes on to present the fundamentals of vector spaces, followed by eigenvalues and eigenvectors, positive definiteness, integral transform methods and applications to PDEs. The exposition illuminates the natural correspondence between solution methods for systems of equations in discrete and continuous settings. The topics draw on the physical sciences, engineering and economics, reflecting the author's distinguished career as an applied mathematician and expositor.
The I Hate Mathematics! Book
Author: Marilyn Burns
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780521336598
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Hundreds of mathematical events, jokes, riddles, puzzles, investigations and experiments showing maths is relevant and fun.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780521336598
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Hundreds of mathematical events, jokes, riddles, puzzles, investigations and experiments showing maths is relevant and fun.