Download or read book The Number Sense written by Stanislas Dehaene and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete. In The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers readers an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Using research showing that human infants have a rudimentary number sense, Dehaene suggests that this sense is as basic as our perception of color, and that it is wired into the brain. But how then did we leap from this basic number ability to trigonometry, calculus, and beyond? Dehaene shows that it was the invention of symbolic systems of numerals that started us on the climb to higher mathematics. Tracing the history of numbers, we learn that in early times, people indicated numbers by pointing to part of their bodies, and how Roman numerals were replaced by modern numbers. On the way, we also discover many fascinating facts: for example, because Chinese names for numbers are short, Chinese people can remember up to nine or ten digits at a time, while English-speaking people can only remember seven. A fascinating look at the crossroads where numbers and neurons intersect, The Number Sense offers an intriguing tour of how the structure of the brain shapes our mathematical abilities, and how math can open up a window on the human mind"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The OPL Optimization Programming Language written by Pascal Van Hentenryck and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1999 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OPL (Optimization Programming Language) is a new modeling language for combinatorial optimization that simplifies the formulation and solution of optimization problems. Perhaps the most significant dimension of OPL is the support for constraint programming, including sophisticated search specifications, logical and higher order constraints, and support for scheduling and resource allocation applications. This book, written by the developer of OPL, is a comprehensive introduction to the OPL programming language and its application to problems in linear and integer programming, constraint programming, and scheduling. Readers should be familiar with combinatorial optimization, at least from an application standpoint.
Download or read book Problem Solving Through Recreational Mathematics written by Bonnie Averbach and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating approach to mathematical teaching stresses use of recreational problems, puzzles, and games to teach critical thinking. Logic, number and graph theory, games of strategy, much more. Includes answers to selected problems. Free solutions manual available for download at the Dover website.
Download or read book The Inquisitive Problem Solver written by Paul Vaderlind and published by MAA. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of minature mathematical puzzles for students and general readers.
Download or read book Binary Puzzles 14x14 Easy to Hard Volume 7 276 Puzzles written by Nick Snels and published by PuzzleBooks.net. This book was released on 2014-11-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Become a master in solving Binary Puzzles. After solving all the puzzles in this book, you will be a Binary Puzzles Pro. You start with easy Binary Puzzles and you gradually build your way up to extremely difficult Binary Puzzles. Once you pick up this book, you won't be able to put it back down. You have been warned! Binary Puzzles 14x14 - Easy to Hard is a collection of 276 puzzles: 72 easy Binary Puzzles 14x14 72 medium Binary Puzzles 14x14 72 hard Binary Puzzles 14x14 60 extra logic puzzles The goal of a Binary Puzzle is to fill in the grid with the numbers 0 and 1 according to the following rules: There are as many ones as zeros in every row and every column (or one more for odd sized grids). No more than two of the same number can be next to or under each other. Each row is unique, and each column is unique. I guarantee that every logic puzzle in this Binary Puzzle book has been carefully checked to ensure that each puzzle has only 1 solution. None of the puzzles in this book will appear in any of the other English PuzzleBooks.net books. Binary Puzzles are also known as Takuzu, Tohu wa Vohu and Binero.
Download or read book Constraint Solving and Planning with Picat written by Neng-Fa Zhou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a new logic-based multi-paradigm programming language that integrates logic programming, functional programming, dynamic programming with tabling, and scripting, for use in solving combinatorial search problems, including CP, SAT, and MIP (mixed integer programming) based solver modules, and a module for planning that is implemented using tabling. The book is useful for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and practitioners.
Download or read book The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections written by Stewart T. Coffin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an enjoyable and educational guide to the history, geometry, and practical construction of three-dimensional puzzles. It includes full coverage of the many different types of interlocking assembly puzzles, from burrs, Tangrams, and polyominoes to those using such polyhedra as the rhombic dodecahedron and truncated octahedron. The author, a well-known inventor and builder of solid geometrical puzzles, also describes numerous puzzles designed by himself and other inventors, many never before published. The volume is illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs to help enthusiasts build their own versions of these challenging and fascinating interlocking solids. Many unsolved problems are considered that will challenge mathematicians, computer buffs, and puzzle fanatics for years to come.
Download or read book Games of No Chance written by Richard J. Nowakowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-13 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Nine-Men Morris, in the hands of perfect players, a win for white or for black - or a draw? Can king, rook, and knight always defeat king and two knights in chess? What can Go players learn from economists? What are nimbers, tinies, switches and minies? This book deals with combinatorial games, that is, games not involving chance or hidden information. Their study is at once old and young: though some games, such as chess, have been analyzed for centuries, the first full analysis of a nontrivial combinatorial game (Nim) only appeared in 1902. The first part of this book will be accessible to anyone, regardless of background: it contains introductory expositions, reports of unusual tournaments, and a fascinating article by John H. Conway on the possibly everlasting contest between an angel and a devil. For those who want to delve more deeply, the book also contains combinatorial studies of chess and Go; reports on computer advances such as the solution of Nine-Men Morris and Pentominoes; and theoretical approaches to such problems as games with many players. If you have read and enjoyed Martin Gardner, or if you like to learn and analyze new games, this book is for you.
Download or read book The CRPG Book A Guide to Computer Role Playing Games written by Felipe Pepe and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews over 400 seminal games from 1975 to 2015. Each entry shares articles on the genre, mod suggestions and hints on how to run the games on modern hardware.
Download or read book Practical Financial Optimization written by Stavros A. Zenios and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Financial Optimization is a comprehensive guide to optimization techniques in financial decision making. This book illuminates the relationship between theory and practice, providing the readers with solid foundational knowledge. Focuses on classical static mean-variance analysis and portfolio immunization, scenario-based models, multi-period dynamic portfolio optimization, and the relationships between classes of models Analyizes real world applications and implications for financial engineers Includes a list of models and a section on notations that includes a glossary of symbols and abbreviations
Download or read book Operations Research written by Katta G. Murty and published by Pearson College Division. This book was released on 1995 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic text on deterministic optimization methods. Techniques of modeling real world decision making problems, modeling examples that illustrate the use of modeling techniques, and a variety of problem classes are presented. Various types of algorithms with explanations of how each algorithm works and what conclusion can be drawn from its output, and a review of Matrix Algebra and Geometry and a chapter on Heuristic Methods.
Download or read book The Tangram Book written by Jerry Slocum and published by Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical study on the ancient and popular Chinese puzzle game presents more than two thousand all-time tangrams, along with detailed instructions on how to arrange these intriguing puzzle tiles and presenting a variety of special puzzles for the reader to solve. Reprint.
Download or read book Puzzles Old New written by Jerry Slocum and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows a variety of antique and modern puzzles, including puzzle locks and rings, and folding, impossible object, vanish, dexterity, sequential movement, disentanglement, interlocking, and take-apart puzzles
Download or read book Analytic Computational Complexity written by J.F. Traub and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analytic Computational Complexity contains the proceedings of the Symposium on Analytic Computational Complexity held by the Computer Science Department, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 7-8, 1975. The symposium provided a forum for assessing progress made in analytic computational complexity and covered topics ranging from strict lower and upper bounds on iterative computational complexity to numerical stability of iterations for solution of nonlinear equations and large linear systems. Comprised of 14 chapters, this book begins with an introduction to analytic computational complexity before turning to proof techniques used in analytic complexity. Subsequent chapters focus on the complexity of obtaining starting points for solving operator equations by Newton's method; maximal order of multipoint iterations using n evaluations; the use of integrals in the solution of nonlinear equations in N dimensions; and the complexity of differential equations. Algebraic constructions in an analytic setting are also discussed, along with the computational complexity of approximation operators. This monograph will be of interest to students and practitioners in the fields of applied mathematics and computer science.
Download or read book The Anchor Puzzle Book written by Jerry Slocum and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Binary Puzzles Mixed Grids Large Print Easy to Hard Volume 5 276 Puzzles written by Nick Snels and published by PuzzleBooks.net. This book was released on 2014-10-18 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you buy this book you get an electronic version (PDF file) of the interior of this book. Become a master in solving Binary Puzzles. You will experience Binary Puzzles with a 10x10, 12x12 and 14x14 grid size. You get the perfect mix of different sizes of Binary Puzzles to keep you entertained for weeks. After solving all the puzzles in this book, you will be a Binary Puzzles Pro. You start with easy Binary Puzzles, which keep getting bigger and bigger and you gradually build your way up to extremely hard Binary Puzzles. Once you pick up this book, you won't be able to put it back down. You have been warned! Only 1 large print puzzle per page, with lots of white space for scribbling. Binary Puzzles Mixed Grids Large Print - Easy to Hard is a collection of 276 puzzles: 24 easy Binary Puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 easy puzzles 24 medium Binary Puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 medium puzzles 24 hard Binary Puzzles per grid size, totaling 72 hard puzzles 60 extra logic puzzles The goal of a Binary Puzzle is to fill in the grid with the numbers 0 and 1 according to the following rules: There are as many ones as zeros in every row and every column (or one more for odd sized grids). No more than two of the same number can be next to or under each other. Each row is unique, and each column is unique. I guarantee that every logic puzzle in this Binary Puzzle book has been carefully checked to ensure that each puzzle has only 1 solution. None of the puzzles in this book will appear in any of the other PuzzleBooks.net books. Binary Puzzles are also known as Takuzu, Tohu wa Vohu and Binero.
Download or read book Orthomodular Lattices written by Gudrun Kalmbach and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has evolved from a set of lecture notes of a course on orthomodular lattices given at the University of Ulm. Most concepts are developed from their very first notions, but in some instances basic set theory and Hilbert space theory may be needed. The text is in general independent of the exercises and supplementary remarks. The book can be used for a general lecture on orthomodular lattices and also for seminars on special geometrical or logical topics. As the first monograph in the field it makes the widely spread results on orthomodular lattices more easily accessible for researchers.
