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The fun and easy way to get down to business with statistics
Stymied by statistics? No fear? this friendly guide offers clear, practical explanations of statistical ideas, techniques, formulas, and calculations, with lots of examples that show you how these concepts apply to your everyday life.
Statistics For Dummies shows you how to interpret and critique graphs and charts, determine the odds with probability, guesstimate
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Publisher
For Dummies
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (192 pages)
Language
English
Description
Pre-Algebra Essentials For Dummies (9781119590866) was previously published as Pre-Algebra Essentials For Dummies (9780470618387). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product. Many students worry about starting algebra. Pre-Algebra Essentials For Dummies provides an overview of critical pre-algebra concepts to help new algebra students...
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The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
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4 DVDs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 176 pages ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
In the 17th century, scientist and mathematician Galileo Galilei noted that the book of nature "cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics . . . without which it is not humanly possible to understand a single word of it." The same feeling prompted German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss to call mathematics the "queen of the sciences"...
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Syngress Pub
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
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Implementing cryptography requires integers of significant magnitude to resist cryptanalytic attacks. Modern programming languages only provide support for integers which are relatively small and single precision. The purpose of this text is to instruct the reader regarding how to implement efficient multiple precision algorithms. Bignum math is the backbone of modern computer security algorithms. It is the ability to work with hundred-digit numbers...
66) Math
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Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2010.
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64 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents mathematical concepts using lively descriptions and cartoon illustrations personifying each concept.
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Pearson
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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Discrete Mathematical Structures provides comprehensive, reasonably rigorous and simple explanation of the concepts with the help of numerous applications from computer science and engineering. Every chapter is equipped with a good number of solved examples that elucidates the definitions and theorems discussed. Chapter-end exercises are graded, with the easier ones in the beginning and then the complex ones, to help students for easy solving.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Everyone has stared at the crumpled page of a math assignment and wondered, where on Earth will I ever use this? It turns out, Earth is precisely the place. As teen math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his teacher David Darling reveal, complex math surrounds us. If we think long enough about the universe, we're left not with material stuff, but a ghostly and beautiful set of equations. Packed with puzzles and paradoxes, mind-bending concepts, and surprising...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
©1997
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
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English
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With applications in pattern recognition, data compression and numerical analysis, the wavelet transform is a key area of modern mathematics that brings new approaches to the analysis and synthesis of signals. This book presents the central issues and emphasizes comparison, assessment and how to combine method and application. It reviews different approaches to guide researchers to appropriate classes of techniques.
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in everyday life. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the ways math trips us up"--
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English
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Gnuplot in Action, Second Edition is a major revision of this popular and authoritative guide for developers, engineers, and scientists who want to learn and use gnuplot effectively. Fully updated for gnuplot version 5, the book includes four pages of color illustrations and four bonus appendixes available for download and in the eBook. About the Technology Gnuplot is an open-source graphics program that helps you analyze, interpret, and present numerical...
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Basic Math and Pre-Algebra Workbook For Dummies, 2nd Edition helps take the guesswork out of solving math equations and will have you unraveling the mystery of FOIL in no time. Whether you need to brush up on the basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division or you're ready to tackle algebraic expressions and equations, this handy workbook will demystify math so you can get back to having fun in math class. Properly use negative numbers,...
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