Author: Sylvain Lhullier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782501061476
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 392
Book Description
Bienvenue dans l'Antiquité grecque avec ses mathématiciens, ses philosophes... et ses énigmes ! Attelez-vous donc sans tarder à la résolution de ces casse-tête en tous genres et tentez de savoir quel pourcentage de spectateurs assiste dans de bonnes conditions aux Jeux olympiques, de trouver l'âge des fils de Pythagore, d'aider la déesse Héra à capturer Io, la maîtresse de Zeus, etc. Retrouvez en 200 énigmes - à résoudre seul, entre amis, ou en famille - le plaisir de vous torturer les méninges, de mettre à l'épreuve vos neurones et de relever tous les défis !
Le grand livre des énigmes mathématiques
Author: Sylvain Lhullier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782501061476
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 392
Book Description
Bienvenue dans l'Antiquité grecque avec ses mathématiciens, ses philosophes... et ses énigmes ! Attelez-vous donc sans tarder à la résolution de ces casse-tête en tous genres et tentez de savoir quel pourcentage de spectateurs assiste dans de bonnes conditions aux Jeux olympiques, de trouver l'âge des fils de Pythagore, d'aider la déesse Héra à capturer Io, la maîtresse de Zeus, etc. Retrouvez en 200 énigmes - à résoudre seul, entre amis, ou en famille - le plaisir de vous torturer les méninges, de mettre à l'épreuve vos neurones et de relever tous les défis !
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782501061476
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 392
Book Description
Bienvenue dans l'Antiquité grecque avec ses mathématiciens, ses philosophes... et ses énigmes ! Attelez-vous donc sans tarder à la résolution de ces casse-tête en tous genres et tentez de savoir quel pourcentage de spectateurs assiste dans de bonnes conditions aux Jeux olympiques, de trouver l'âge des fils de Pythagore, d'aider la déesse Héra à capturer Io, la maîtresse de Zeus, etc. Retrouvez en 200 énigmes - à résoudre seul, entre amis, ou en famille - le plaisir de vous torturer les méninges, de mettre à l'épreuve vos neurones et de relever tous les défis !
Cybernetica
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cybernetics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cybernetics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Revue Roumaine de Mathématiques Pures Et Appliquées
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
French books in print, anglais
Author: Electre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782765408475
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 2148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782765408475
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 2148
Book Description
Casanova's Lottery
Author: Stephen M. Stigler
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226820785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The fascinating story of an important lottery that flourished in France from 1757 to 1836 and its role in transforming our understanding of the nature of risk. In the 1750s, at the urging of famed adventurer Giacomo Casanova, the French state began to embrace risk in adopting a new Loterie. The prize amounts paid varied, depending on the number of tickets bought and the amount of the bet, as determined by each individual bettor. The state could lose money on any individual Loterie drawing while being statistically guaranteed to come out on top in the long run. In adopting this framework, the French state took on risk in a way no other has, before or after. At each drawing the state was at risk of losing a large amount; what is more, that risk was precisely calculable, generally well understood, and yet taken on by the state with little more than a mathematical theory to protect it. Stephen M. Stigler follows the Loterie from its curious inception through its hiatus during the French Revolution, its renewal and expansion in 1797, and finally to its suppression in 1836, examining throughout the wider question of how members of the public came to trust in new financial technologies and believe in their value. Drawing from an extensive collection of rare ephemera, Stigler pieces together the Loterie’s remarkable inner workings, as well as its implications for the nature of risk and the role of lotteries in social life over the period 1700–1950. Both a fun read and fodder for many fields, Casanova's Lottery shines new light on the conscious introduction of risk into the management of a nation-state and the rationality of playing unfair games.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226820785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The fascinating story of an important lottery that flourished in France from 1757 to 1836 and its role in transforming our understanding of the nature of risk. In the 1750s, at the urging of famed adventurer Giacomo Casanova, the French state began to embrace risk in adopting a new Loterie. The prize amounts paid varied, depending on the number of tickets bought and the amount of the bet, as determined by each individual bettor. The state could lose money on any individual Loterie drawing while being statistically guaranteed to come out on top in the long run. In adopting this framework, the French state took on risk in a way no other has, before or after. At each drawing the state was at risk of losing a large amount; what is more, that risk was precisely calculable, generally well understood, and yet taken on by the state with little more than a mathematical theory to protect it. Stephen M. Stigler follows the Loterie from its curious inception through its hiatus during the French Revolution, its renewal and expansion in 1797, and finally to its suppression in 1836, examining throughout the wider question of how members of the public came to trust in new financial technologies and believe in their value. Drawing from an extensive collection of rare ephemera, Stigler pieces together the Loterie’s remarkable inner workings, as well as its implications for the nature of risk and the role of lotteries in social life over the period 1700–1950. Both a fun read and fodder for many fields, Casanova's Lottery shines new light on the conscious introduction of risk into the management of a nation-state and the rationality of playing unfair games.
Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development
Author: Joseph W. Dauben
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783764361679
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
As an historiographic monograph, this book offers a detailed survey of the professional evolution and significance of an entire discipline devoted to the history of science. It provides both an intellectual and a social history of the development of the subject from the first such effort written by the ancient Greek author Eudemus in the Fourth Century BC, to the founding of the international journal, Historia Mathematica, by Kenneth O. May in the early 1970s.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783764361679
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
As an historiographic monograph, this book offers a detailed survey of the professional evolution and significance of an entire discipline devoted to the history of science. It provides both an intellectual and a social history of the development of the subject from the first such effort written by the ancient Greek author Eudemus in the Fourth Century BC, to the founding of the international journal, Historia Mathematica, by Kenneth O. May in the early 1970s.
Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
Author: Matt Parker
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374710376
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A book from the stand-up mathematician that makes math fun again! Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. Part of the problem may be the way the subject is taught, but it's also true that we all, to a greater or lesser extent, find math difficult and counterintuitive. This counterintuitiveness is actually part of the point, argues Parker: the extraordinary thing about math is that it allows us to access logic and ideas beyond what our brains can instinctively do—through its logical tools we are able to reach beyond our innate abilities and grasp more and more abstract concepts. In the absorbing and exhilarating Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension, Parker sets out to convince his readers to revisit the very math that put them off the subject as fourteen-year-olds. Starting with the foundations of math familiar from school (numbers, geometry, and algebra), he reveals how it is possible to climb all the way up to the topology and to four-dimensional shapes, and from there to infinity—and slightly beyond. Both playful and sophisticated, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension is filled with captivating games and puzzles, a buffet of optional hands-on activities that entices us to take pleasure in math that is normally only available to those studying at a university level. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension invites us to re-learn much of what we missed in school and, this time, to be utterly enthralled by it.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374710376
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A book from the stand-up mathematician that makes math fun again! Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. Part of the problem may be the way the subject is taught, but it's also true that we all, to a greater or lesser extent, find math difficult and counterintuitive. This counterintuitiveness is actually part of the point, argues Parker: the extraordinary thing about math is that it allows us to access logic and ideas beyond what our brains can instinctively do—through its logical tools we are able to reach beyond our innate abilities and grasp more and more abstract concepts. In the absorbing and exhilarating Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension, Parker sets out to convince his readers to revisit the very math that put them off the subject as fourteen-year-olds. Starting with the foundations of math familiar from school (numbers, geometry, and algebra), he reveals how it is possible to climb all the way up to the topology and to four-dimensional shapes, and from there to infinity—and slightly beyond. Both playful and sophisticated, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension is filled with captivating games and puzzles, a buffet of optional hands-on activities that entices us to take pleasure in math that is normally only available to those studying at a university level. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension invites us to re-learn much of what we missed in school and, this time, to be utterly enthralled by it.
Français Interactif
Author: Karen Kelton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937963200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This textbook includes all 13 chapters of Français interactif. It accompanies www.laits.utexas.edu/fi, the web-based French program developed and in use at the University of Texas since 2004, and its companion site, Tex's French Grammar (2000) www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/ Français interactif is an open acess site, a free and open multimedia resources, which requires neither password nor fees. Français interactif has been funded and created by Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas, and is currently supported by COERLL, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning UT-Austin, and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE Grant P116B070251) as an example of the open access initiative.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937963200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This textbook includes all 13 chapters of Français interactif. It accompanies www.laits.utexas.edu/fi, the web-based French program developed and in use at the University of Texas since 2004, and its companion site, Tex's French Grammar (2000) www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/ Français interactif is an open acess site, a free and open multimedia resources, which requires neither password nor fees. Français interactif has been funded and created by Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas, and is currently supported by COERLL, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning UT-Austin, and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE Grant P116B070251) as an example of the open access initiative.