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Mathematical Ideas
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What does your math course have to do with the latest TV shows or Hollywood movies? Plenty–if you’re using the right text. Mathematical Ideas, Twelfth Edition brings the best of Hollywood into the classroom through descriptions of video clips from popular cinema and television. Well-known author John Hornsby’s innovative approach is enhanced with great care in this revision, and refined to serve the needs of you and your instructor. Streamlined and updated, it offers a modernized design, new bubble pointers for Example annotations, and much more. It retains the consistent features, friendly writing style, clear examples, and exercise sets for which this text is known.
What does your math course have to do with the latest TV shows or Hollywood movies? Plenty–if you’re using the right text. Mathematical Ideas, Twelfth Edition brings the best of Hollywood into the classroom through descriptions of video clips from popular cinema and television. Well-known author John Hornsby’s innovative approach is enhanced with great care in this revision, and refined to serve the needs of you and your instructor. Streamlined and updated, it offers a modernized design, new bubble pointers for Example annotations, and much more. It retains the consistent features, friendly writing style, clear examples, and exercise sets for which this text is known.
1008 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1973
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September 30, 2018
Got most of exciting ideas of math
February 12, 2023
Really gets the abstract brain juices flowing! [Note: I read the sixth edition which has none of the Hollywood weirdness]
October 6, 2023
A well-rounded Mathematical foundation
I am afraid this is one of the few books I marked in (at least in pencil).
You will want to collect different editions to be sure nothing important has been deleted or replaced.
I have had courses before and after this book, but I keep it because it crosses disciplines, or at least shows practical uses and obscure theoretical uses for math.
It is the sidebar information that keeps you intrigued in the book.
A sample sidebar is:
Breaking codes - finding prime factors of extremely large numbers has been considered a mere computer exercise- interesting for improved methods of working with computers, but of no value of its right. This has changed in recent years with the new methods of “computer coding” in which very large numbers are used in an attempt to provide unbreakable codes for computer data. Just as fast as these numbers are used, other people try to find prime factors in them so that the code can be broken.
Then we get how-to examples.
I am afraid this is one of the few books I marked in (at least in pencil).
You will want to collect different editions to be sure nothing important has been deleted or replaced.
I have had courses before and after this book, but I keep it because it crosses disciplines, or at least shows practical uses and obscure theoretical uses for math.
It is the sidebar information that keeps you intrigued in the book.
A sample sidebar is:
Breaking codes - finding prime factors of extremely large numbers has been considered a mere computer exercise- interesting for improved methods of working with computers, but of no value of its right. This has changed in recent years with the new methods of “computer coding” in which very large numbers are used in an attempt to provide unbreakable codes for computer data. Just as fast as these numbers are used, other people try to find prime factors in them so that the code can be broken.
Then we get how-to examples.
May 4, 2011
The book itself was alright, i liked the movie references throughout it. but i didn't use it much, so i cant really say anything other than i spent too much money on it and it wasn't worth it.
May 2, 2013
Textbook used for class Spring 2013.
It's a math book - what else can you say?
It's a math book - what else can you say?
January 2, 2011
Mine is a 2nd edition, lol, total cost $12.95
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