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A fun, interactive, and award-winning, online kindergarten-readiness learning solution for children ages 3 to 6 years. With hundreds of lessons in math, science, social studies, language and literacy, art, and music, the curriculum increases in difficulty as the user progresses through the program.

1) Visions of infinity: the great mathematical problems

Author

Stewart, Ian

Publisher

Basic Books

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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It is one of the wonders of mathematics that, for every problem mathematicians solve, another awaits to perplex and galvanize them. Some of these problems are new, while others have puzzled and bewitched thinkers across the ages. Such challenges offer a tantalizing glimpse of the field's unlimited potential, and keep mathematicians looking toward the horizons of intellectual possibility.
In Visions of Infinity, celebrated mathematician...

2) How not to be wrong: the power of mathematical thinking

Author

Ellenberg, Jordan

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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"In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us that math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do--the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It's a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to...

3) A random walk down Wall Street: the time-tested strategy for successful investing

Author

Malkiel, Burton G

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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A Best Book For Investors Pick by the Wall Street Journal's "Weekend Investor"

Whether you're considering your first 401k contribution, contemplating retirement, or anywhere in between, A Random Walk Down Wall Street is the best investment guide money can buy. In this new edition, Burton G. Malkiel shares authoritative insights spanning the full range of investment opportunities—including valuable new material on cryptocurrencies

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4) How mathematics happened: the first 50,000 years

Author

Rudman, Peter Strom

Publisher

Prometheus Books

Pub. Date

2006

Language

English

5) Pi in the sky: counting, thinking, and being

Author

Barrow, John D

Publisher

Clarendon Press

Pub. Date

c1992

Language

English

6) Everyday math demystified

Author

Gibilisco, Stan

Series

McGraw-Hill "Demystified"

Publisher

McGraw-Hill

Pub. Date

2004

Language

English

Description

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A comprehensive overview of everyday mathematics, including terminology, numbers, measurements, fractions, graphs, and more. Includes exam questions with answers.

7) A mathematical mystery tour: discovering the truth and beauty of the cosmos

Author

Dewdney, A. K

Publisher

Wiley

Pub. Date

c1999

Language

English

8) The math of money: making mathematical sense of your personal finances

Author

Davis, Morton D

Publisher

Copernicus Books

Pub. Date

c2001

Language

English

9) The art of more: how mathematics created civilization

Author

Brooks, Michael

Publisher

Pantheon Books

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

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"For readers of Steven Strogatz's Infinite Powers and The Joy of x comes this illuminating exploration of the ways in which math-and the people who have mastered its inherent power through the ages-has shaped our world. In this captivating, sweeping history, Michael Brooks makes clear that mathematics was one of the foundational innovations that catapulted humanity from a nomadic existence to civilization, and that it has been instrumental in every...

10) The mathematical universe: an alphabetical journey through great proofs, problems, and personalities

Author

Dunham, William

Publisher

Wiley & Sons

Pub. Date

1994

Language

English

11) Letters to a young mathematician

Author

Stewart, Ian

Publisher

Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group

Pub. Date

2006

Language

English

12) The joy of X: a guided tour of math, from one to infinity

Author

Strogatz, Steven H

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub. Date

2012

Language

English

Description

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"In 2010, award-winning professor Steven Strogatz wrote a series for the New York Times online called "The Elements of Math." It was hugely popular: Each piece climbed the most emailed list and elicited hundreds of comments. Readers begged for more, and Strogatz has now delivered. In this fun, fast-paced book, he offers us all a second chance at math. Each short chapter of The Joy of X provides an "Aha!" moment, starting with why numbers are helpful,...

13) God created the integers: the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history

Publisher

Running Press

Pub. Date

c2005

Language

English

14) Math word problems the easy way

Author

Ebner, David

Publisher

Barron's Educational Series

Pub. Date

c2002

Language

English

15) The story of mathematics

Author

Mankiewicz, Richard

Publisher

Princeton Univ Press

Pub. Date

2001

Language

English

16) The big bang of numbers: how to build the universe using only math

Author

Suri, Manil

Publisher

W.W. Norton & Company

Pub. Date

[2022]

Language

English

Description

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"An engaging and imaginative tour through the fundamental mathematical concepts-from arithmetic to infinity-that form the building blocks of our universe. Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing-no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space-could we create a universe using only math? Irreverent, richly illustrated, and boundlessly creative,...

17) Math art: truth, beauty, and equations

Author

Ornes, Stephen

Publisher

Sterling Publishing Company, Inc

Pub. Date

[2019]

Language

English

Description

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"From geometry in motion to the possibilities of pi, this stunning volume reveals how art inspired the beauty and poetry of mathematical principles. The worlds of visual art and mathematics come together in this spectacular volume by award-winning writer Stephen Ornes. He explores the growing sensation of math art, presenting more than 80 pieces, including a crocheted, colorful representation of non-Euclidian geometry that looks like sea coral and...

18) Our mathematical universe: my quest for the ultimate nature of reality

Author

Tegmark, Max

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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"Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present, and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and ground-breaking science, he not only helps us grasp his often mind-boggling theories (his website gives...

19) World of mathematics

Publisher

Gale Group

Pub. Date

Language

English

Description

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Presents over 1,000 entries covering theories, discoveries, concepts, and definitions, and includes biographical entries on prominent mathematicians from antiquity to the present.

20) Super simple math: the ultimate bite-size study guide

Author

Cottingham, Belle

Publisher

DK Publishing

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

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Children's New Books: September 2021 Nonfiction

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"From multiplication to fractions and from algebra to geometry, this guide makes complex topics easy to grasp at a glance"--

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1) Visions of infinity: the great mathematical problems

2) How not to be wrong: the power of mathematical thinking

3) A random walk down Wall Street: the time-tested strategy for successful investing

4) How mathematics happened: the first 50,000 years

5) Pi in the sky: counting, thinking, and being

6) Everyday math demystified

7) A mathematical mystery tour: discovering the truth and beauty of the cosmos

8) The math of money: making mathematical sense of your personal finances

9) The art of more: how mathematics created civilization

10) The mathematical universe: an alphabetical journey through great proofs, problems, and personalities

11) Letters to a young mathematician

12) The joy of X: a guided tour of math, from one to infinity

13) God created the integers: the mathematical breakthroughs that changed history

14) Math word problems the easy way

15) The story of mathematics

16) The big bang of numbers: how to build the universe using only math

17) Math art: truth, beauty, and equations

18) Our mathematical universe: my quest for the ultimate nature of reality

19) World of mathematics

20) Super simple math: the ultimate bite-size study guide

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