John Allen Paulos. A mathematician plays the stock market

Published under Creative Commons (Sep 5, 2007) Notes on Cognitive Aspects of Mathematical Practice Part I Simple Things: How Structures of Human Cognition Reveal Themselves in Mathematics A Taste of Things to Come What You See is What You Get The Wing of the Hummingbird Simple Things Infinity and Beyond Encapsulation of Actual Infinity Part II Mathematical Reasoning What Is It That Makes a Mathematician? Kolmogorov’s Logic and Heuristic Reason...

AMS, 2010. - 293 pages. From the Preface: This book is an attempt to look at mathematics from a new and somewhat unusual point of view. I have started to systematically record and analyze from a mathematical point of view various dif?culties experiencing by children in their early learning of mathematics. I hope that my approach will eventually allow me to gain a better understanding of how we—not only children, but adults, too — do mathematics...

American Mathematical Society, 2010. - 293 pages. It is an unusual book which casts new and paradoxical light on the nature of mathematics. The book will be interesting - perhaps for different reasons - to school teachers of mathematics and maths majors at universities, to graduate students in mathematics and computer science, to research mathematicians and computer scientists, to philosophers and historians of mathematics, to psychologists and...

How do you draw a straight line? How do you determine if a circle is really round? These may sound like simple or even trivial mathematical problems, but to an engineer the answers can mean the difference between success and failure. How Round Is Your Circle? invites readers to explore many of the same fundamental questions that working engineers deal with every day-it's challenging, hands-on, and fun. John Bryant and Chris Sangwin illustrate ho...

W.H. Freeman & Company, 1998. - 413 pages. Mathematician Devlin offers readers readers a primer for mathematics, its history, and recent development in the numbers field. LANGUAGE OF MATHEMATICS walks readers through a range of topics from non-Euclidean geometry, network theory, and quantum mechanics to the impacting legacy left by some of history's greatest mathematicians, including Fermat, Galois, and Archimedes. The author is a featured c...

Mir Publishers Moscow, 1984. - 360 pages. "In the chapters that follow I will attempt to tell the story of mathematics and weave into an integral whole the various discussions I have had with my non-mathematical friends. This will be a story of mathematics in popular language so that the non-mathematician will see what it is all about. This is not a course in mathematics but merely a series of sketches concerning ideas and methods. There will...

University Of Chicago Press, 1982. - 124 pages. "Jokes, paradoxes, riddles, and the art of non-sequitur are revealed with great perception and insight in this illuminating account of the relationship between humor and mathematics. " - New York Times "'Leave your mind alone, ' said a Thurber cartoon, and a really complete and convincing analysis of what humour is might spoil all jokes forever. This book avoids that danger. What it does. . .is de...

A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight. In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof or finding an unknown can be of help in attacking any problem that can be "reasoned" out-from building a bridge to winning a game of anagrams. Generations of readers have relished Polya's deft-indeed, brilliant-instructions o...

Princeton University Press, 2007. - 172 pages. The Mathematician's Brain poses a provocative question about the world's most brilliant yet eccentric mathematical minds: were they brilliant because of their eccentricities or in spite of them? In this thought-provoking and entertaining book, David Ruelle, the well-known mathematical physicist who helped create chaos theory, gives us a rare insider's account of the celebrated mathematicians he has...

John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2010. – 259 pages. Contents: Introduction: What Math Can Do for You The Most Valuable Chapter You Will Ever Read How Math Can Help You Understand Sports Strategy How Math Can Help Your Love Life How Math Can Help You Beat the Bookies How Math Can Improve Your Grades How Math Can Extend Your Life Expectancy How Math Can Help You Win Arguments How Math Can Make You Rich How Math Can Help You Crunch the Numbers How Math...