| Basic Gambling Mathematics: The Numbers Behind The Neon <b>...</b> Posted: 30 Jun 2014 03:18 AM PDT  | Basic Gambling Mathematics: The Numbers Behind The Neon Posted: 29 Jun 2014 07:39 PM PDT Basic Gambling Mathematics: The Numbers Behind the Neon explains the mathematics involved in analyzing games of chance, including casino games, horse racing, and lotteries. The book helps readers understand the mathematical reasons why some gambling games are better for the player than others. It is also suitable as a textbook for an introductory course on probability. Along with discussing the mathematics of well-known casino games, the author examines game variations that have been proposed or used in actual casinos. Numerous examples illustrate the mathematical ideas in a range of casino games while end-of-chapter exercises go beyond routine calculations to give readers hands-on experience with casino-related computations. The book begins with a brief historical introduction and mathematical preliminaries before developing the essential results and applications of elementary probability, including the important idea of mathematical expectation. The author then addresses probability questions arising from a variety of games, including roulette, craps, baccarat, blackjack, Caribbean stud poker, Royal Roulette, and sic bo.
The final chapter explores the mathematics behind "get rich quick" schemes, such as the martingale and the Iron Cross, and shows how simple mathematics uncovers the flaws in these systems. | | The Mathematics Calendar 2015 Posted: 29 Jun 2014 07:37 PM PDT Now more than ever The Mathematics Calendar reminds us how mathematics describes nature, impacts the sciences, is essential to architecture, influences the arts, is inseparable from music, exercises and tantalizes the mind with its puzzles and problems, stimulates and creates new technologies, and reveals the multi-dimensions of our world and universe through its ever evolving ideas and insights. The 2015 calendar includes twelve new fascinating math topics illustrating the incredible influence of mathematics on our lives. Each day of every month has a problem, whose solution is the date. The brain teaser lies in figuring how to arrive at the answer, and possibly discovering more than one method of solving the date's problem. For each month, the problems range from arithmetic to calculus. Each month's text, photos and graphics have a wealth of information and are even sprinkled with a bit of humor. The twelve topics feature exciting, historic and current math ideas and topics. Theoni Pappas is committed to demystifying mathematics. The Mathematics Calendar has given thousands of people a new perspective about math —it can be fun, fascinating & intriguing. | | Introducing Logic: A Graphic Guide Posted: 29 Jun 2014 08:04 AM PDT If you have had any sort of encounter with logic (I've had propositional, predicate, and a touch of modal logic) this book will be a fun overview of the history of logic and important figures in the science. It covers classical, fuzzy, and quantum logic and explores the attempts to found mathematics on logical foundations (Frege, Russell). The ideas of all the greats are introduced with ease (Leibniz, Godel, Hilbert, Aristotle, Quine, Davidson, Turing, Wittgenstein, etc). And it details how computers have their basis in logical systems. It's presented in cartoonish fashion, but is an intelligent (and not a dumbed down) overview of the subject. Someone who has not had logic will benefit from a couple of readings. As the book is not long this shouldn't be difficult (it might just be all you'd ever need or want to know about the subject). There is a section of further reading that recommends one of the best 1st order logic book - Tomassi - that I've encountered. The other recommendations are perfect for one who wants to delve deeper into this fascinating field. | | MyMathLab: Student Access Kit Posted: 29 Jun 2014 07:45 AM PDT I am a college professor who uses My Math Lab. I also love amazon and their customer service. For a few semesters, mainly 2010-2011 while Pearson was making updates codes did not work. MY code would not even work. We, too, went through the rigamaroe with Pearson that the college was selling invalid codes, blah, blah. If you bought online with a credit card you were good to go but access codes were all saying invalid. The sad part is as far as I know, Pearson NEVER owned up to the problem being their fault. My students and I were able to finally access MML thanks to a Pearson rep who gave me a back door code. We did not have any issues last year so I think you are safe to buy the code from Amazon. Why in eWorld the price keeps increasing is beyond me....but as another reviewer stated, "It's a racket". As a former college student, teacher, mother of 3 college graduates and a son who is a college junior, I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE!!!! By
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| | My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles | Math2Ever - Blog <b>...</b> Posted: 27 Jun 2014 01:37 PM PDT | My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles Posted: 26 Jun 2014 11:32 PM PDT Marvelous book. I found it better than many books but my friends, who were not that conversant with intermediate mathematics did not like it much. Though this book doesn't require a knowledge of calculus, people who have this level might appreciate the book more. But it has more to do with mathematical 'thinking' rather than mathematics itself.
So get this one if you are good at mathematical thinking and want to challenge yourself. If you are weak in math and would rather read puzzles that require only logic, cleverness, and lateral thinking only, this may not be the one for you. | | The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations (Dover Recreational Math) Posted: 26 Jun 2014 11:15 PM PDT "The Moscow Puzzles" is unique among problem-solving and brainteaser books because of the wide range of types of problems that it addresses. As a lecturer at Cal Tech's Executive Training Center, I teach "Creating Breakthrough Products" to technical executives. This book has been very helpful for those participating, because the problems it contains represent various types of psychological barriers that prevent problem-solvers and designers from achieving high-level solutions. I refer to examples from this book during the Cal Tech training session; we employ the revolutionary Russian problem-solving tool whose acronym is "TRIZ." Other fine attributes of this book are its sense of humor and its practicality. The author has chosen everyday events and situations for his problem "plots," and in doing so, maintains the interest level of the average reader. Readers of this book will learn to overcome personal barriers to creativity (the chief personal barrier is called "psychological inertia"), and will increase their creativity quotients by an order of magnitude, or more. I strongly recommend this book for use in all classes from grades 4 through college senior. For the rest of us who simply like ("love") to work on challenging problems, this is the book for you. Good luck! By | | The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics (Sterling Milestones) Posted: 26 Jun 2014 11:01 PM PDT In his previous science book, "Archimedes to Hawking", Cliff Pickover explored the great laws of science and the lives of the physicists and chemists who discovered the laws. In the "Math Book", Pickover takes on the great moments or milestones of mathematics. While the great laws of physics were almost all named by the early twentieth century, scientific milestones continue to be established. Thus, the mathematical milestones of the "Math Book" are documented into the twenty-first century. The publishers have provided Pickover with a challenging format. Each milestone is described on just one page, and each is accompanied by a full page image on the facing page. These limitations restrict the scope of the presentation for each subject. However, having as many as 250 milestones has allowed Pickover to expand some subject areas into more than one related milestone. The images are absolutely beautiful. They include paintings, diagrams, photos, and computer-generated art. Among the best are a close-up photo of the game of Go, a map of the Internet as the illustration for the Konigsberg Bridges, the Gray Code using a diagram taken from a US patent, and the Archimedes Spiral as exemplified by a fiddlehead fern. Many of the milestones cover esoteric theoretical areas of mathematical analysis. This was not my best subject in school. However, because of the latitude provided by having 250 topics to cover, Pickover is able to include more technology-related topics. He has authored many math books, for example, "Wonders of Numbers", "A Passion for Mathematics", "The Mobius Strip", and this year, an updated paperback edition of "The Loom of God." However, he is also a down-to-earth scientist. The topics in this book include such concrete subjects as the bed sheet folding problem, public key cryptography, Rubik's Cube, and my favorite, cicada-generated prime numbers. Not all milestones were charted by humans! Is every possible milestone included? Even with 250 topics, and yes there are exactly 250, Pickover invites the submission of additional milestones. Before reading the book, I had some expectations of what topics should be covered in the milestones. Upon reading, I found that almost all of my ideas were included. However, I do have a suggestion for an additional milestone, Legendre Polynomials. These polynomials, well-known to physicists, are used to express the form of atomic wave functions. Thus, they underlie the very fabric of matter. If you can include Bessel Functions, why not have Legendre Polynomials? There must be other milestones to suggest. Perhaps the "Math Book" can become an example of Hilbert's Grand Hotel. Even when the hotel is full, there is always room for another guest. | | Mastering Essential Math Skills: 20 Minutes a Day to Success, Book 2: Middle Grades/High School Posted: 26 Jun 2014 10:19 PM PDT Our girls no longer complained! This review is from: Mastering Essential Math Skills: 20 Minutes a Day to Success, Book 2: Middle Grades/High School. Last year in our homeschool, we switched to "Mastering Essential Math Skills: Middle Grade/High School, and it was the best switch we could have made. Both girls were to the point of dreading math, and after changing to this program, they now looked forward to math class and could make sense of it because of the step-by-step instructions. Great for 7th-8th grades. Our 2nd daughter actually moved from 5th grade to 7th grade because this program was available. By K. Webster
| | How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking Posted: 26 Jun 2014 09:56 PM PDT "Mathematics is the extension of common sense by other means." This review is from: How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Hardcover) I run across a lot of books that I add to my to-be-read list and then forget about until after their publication dates or I stumble upon the book in the library or bookstore. How Not to Be Wrong was initially one of those books, but it sounded so good that I found myself obsessively thinking about it and started a search for a pre-publication copy. Since I'm not a librarian, didn't win a copy via First Reads, and don't have friends at Penguin Press, it took some time and effort, but having procured a copy and read it, I can say that it was well worth my time and $6.00. How Not to Be Wrong is a catchy title, but for me, this book is really about the subtitle, The Power of Mathematical Thinking. Ellenberg deftly explains why mathematics is important, gives the reader myriad examples applicable to our own lives, and also tells us what math can't do. He writes, "Mathematics is the extension of common sense by other means", and proceeds to expound upon an incredible number of interesting subjects and how mathematics can help us better understand these topics, such as obesity, economics, reproducibility, the lottery, error-correcting codes, and the existence (or not) of God. He writes in a compelling, explanatory way that I think anyone with an interest in mathematics and/or simply understanding things more completely will be able to grasp. Ellenberg writes "Do the Math" for Slate, and it's evident in his column and this book that he knows how to explain mathematical ideas to non-mathematicians, and even more so, seems to enjoy doing so with great enthusiasm. I won't pretend that I understood everything discussed in this book, but it's such an excellent book that I also bought the hardcover (so I have an index which my pre-pub copy does not), and reread the book so I do have a much more thorough understanding. I've wished for a book like this for a long time, and I'd like to thank Jordan Ellenberg for writing it for me! May 29, 2014 By BHB Verified Purchase
| | Pratical Exercise : Chapter 1 Basic Algebra BA101 Posted: 26 Jun 2014 08:26 PM PDT | | <b>Politeknik Kuching Sarawak</b> - Google Blog Search - Blog Politeknik <b>...</b> Posted: 24 Jun 2014 09:14 AM PDT KUCHING: Menteri Muda di Pejabat Ketua Menteri (Promosi Pendidikan Teknikal) Datu Len Talif Salleh dilantik sebagai pengerusi Jawatankuasa Penasihat Politeknik Kuching bagi tempoh dua tahun bermula tahun ini. Senarai penuh ahli jawatankuasa itu ialah Pengarah Politeknik Kuching Clara Ong, yang akan menjadi ahli tetap, Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif (CEO) dan Pengerusi Perbadanan Inovasi Belia Sarawak (KOBIS) Zaiwin Kassim, Pengurus Kanan Brooke Dockyard and Engineering Works Corporation Andrew Ronggie, Pengarah Uchimono & Co Masri Juni, CEO dan Ahli Lembaga Juruukur Tanah Dr Lau Chong Chuan, Pengarah Sunway College Sarawak Joseph Lim Jit Sek, Pegawai Eksekutif Perkhidmatan Sumber Manusia Lotte Chemical Ttitan Johor Teng Hooi Yee dan Ketua Operasi Perkhidmatan dan Rangkaian Wilayah Maxis Broadband Sdn Bhd Kuching Khairul Hakim Mohd Rasid. Pelantikan mereka berdasarkan kepakaran, profesional dan jawatan dalam organisasi masing-masing yang dipercayai dapat menyumbang kepada pembangunan signifikan institusi berkenaan. Jawatankuasa Penasihat itu akan membantu institusi berkenaan memastikan pembangunan yang dirancang dan dilaksanakan dengan lancar, dalam infrastruktur serta kurikulum dalam usaha memenuhi piawaian latihan teknikal negara. Ia juga berperanan sebagai saluran komunikasi bagi mengekalkan hubungan baik antara institusi, industri dan masyarakat secara keseluruhannya. Seiring dengan peranan dan fungsinya, jawatankuasa itu dari semasa ke semasa akan membuat pengesoran serta cadangan berhubung aspek bentuk kurikulum dan kursus-kursus baharu diperkenalkan bagi membolehkan Politeknik Kuching menjadi institusi teknikal nombor satu pada masa akan datang. Jawatankuasa itu juga bertanggungjawab memberi maklum balas kepada institusi itu mengenai situasi pasaran pekerjaan ketika ini dan keperluan supaya pihak pengurusannya dapat melakukan perubahan pada bila-bila masa. Sebelum mesyuarat pertama bermula, Len Talif dan ahli-ahli lain diberi taklimat mengenai Politeknik Kuching oleh Ong. Hadir sama pada mesyuarat itu Timbalan Pengarah Politeknik Kuching Mohd Anwar Dris dan Jemien Ental. |
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