Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewHow does homebanking work? How are board games developed? How reliable can wind energy get? How do we discover forged paintings? Do smart girls stay single? How dangerous can a bioterrorist get? In all these questions (and many others), mathematics plays a crucial role in the search for an answer. This book tells the story behind twenty of these questions. This is explicitly not a mathematics book, but a book about the crucial role that mathematics plays in devising the creative solutions the world needs. The questions are divided into three categories: mathematics in everyday life, mathematics for the workplace, and mathematics for tomorrow's society. The themes illustrate not only the incredibly broad applicability of mathematics in the world around us, but also the great diversity of useful mathematical techniques. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Giovanni Samaey , Joos P. L. VandewallePublisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Edition: 1st ed. 2022 Weight: 0.302kg ISBN: 9781071627754ISBN 10: 1071627759 Pages: 175 Publication Date: 16 March 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsReviews“The Invisible Power of Mathematics by Giovanni Samaey and Joos Vandewalle discusses 20 wide-ranging applications of mathematics, devoting an average of eight pages to each application. ... The book feels like a series of conversations about mathematics while walking through the woods with nothing to write on and with far more words than equations. ... The Invisible Power of Mathematics is closer to the Bell end, which is needed given book's intended purpose.” (John D. Cook, MAA Reviews, January 28, 2024) Author InformationGiovanni Samaey (b. 1978) obtained a PhD in engineering in 2006 and has been a lecturer in Mathematical Engineering at the Computer Science Department of KU Leuven since 2011. He is also a member of the Young Academy. Joos Vandewalle (b. 1948) is Emeritus Professor of Engineering and taught mathematical engineering for many years at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) KU Leuven. He is a director of the Technical Sciences class of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts KVAB, member of the Academia Europaea, and Fellow of IEEE, Eurasip and IET. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
