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Volume
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MATHEMATICS
Everywhere |
The
power of mathematics has never been more potent.
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Got
Math?
by Nick Riddle |
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Imagine a language that transcends nations, that expresses the very underpinnings of the universe.
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Getting
from A to B |
Why
aren't America's students learning to do the numbers, and how can
it change?
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A
VIGRE-ous Start |
Graduate
education in math equals math plus new skills in communication and
collaboration.
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Math
Plays the Market by Ceci Jones Schrock |
Stocks, options, bonds—find out how a probability expert masters the math behind financial markets. |
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Following
the Ink |
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A
statistician tells historians something new about Galileo's work by
analyzing the scientist's 17th- century ink.
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Listen
in as mathematicians describe the aesthetic, poetic world revealed
through partial differential equations.
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Calculating
Vision |
Applied mathematicians tackle all sorts of challenges, from fixing broken garage doors to creating bifocal lenses. |
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Going
with the Flow |
The Gulf Stream goes high-tech as mathematicians try to uncover how eddies form. |
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Understanding |
How
can predictability and unpredictability coexist?
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No
Random Order |
Searching
for chaos, and order,
in a single dimension. |
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Strange
Happenings
by Mary Hrovat |
It's
weird, but quantum computation may rule in the computers of the
future.
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Preview
books on friendship and exile, wildflowers, Muslim life in Southeast
Asia, terrorism in contemporary fiction, and more.
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Astronomicum
Caesareum, 1540
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