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"Born in Scotland more than 250 years ago, William Playfair was a dreamer who saw the world differently from other people. Unfortunately, this difference sometimes got in the way of his success. Early on, as he attempted to apply his unique perspective to a series of career opportunities in order to gain riches! fame! glory! he instead suffered one failure after another. Then, while writing a book about economics, Will's innovative vision inspired...
7) Graph it!
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"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce children to various kinds of graphs, including bar graphs, line graphs, and picture graphs, and explore real-life examples of each. Includes activity, glossary, and index"--
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There are some very special places to be found by the "fractal explorer" who ventures into this strange land.
Like the early explorers who would travel to strange and exotic places and send back reports to the Royal Geographical Society, I have been wandering the complex plane and have gathered some truly amazing images for you to enjoy.
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The second in a series of systematic studies by a celebrated mathematician I. M. Gelfand and colleagues, this volume presents students with a well-illustrated sequence of problems and exercises designed to illuminate the properties of functions and graphs. Since readers do not have the benefit of a blackboard on which a teacher constructs a graph, the authors abandoned the customary use of diagrams in which only the final form of the graph appears;...
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A stimulating view of mathematics that appeals to students as well as teachers, this undergraduate-level text is written in an informal style that does not sacrifice depth or challenge. Based on 20 years of teaching by the leading researcher in graph theory, it offers a solid foundation on the subject. This revised and augmented edition features new exercises, simplifications, and other improvements suggested by classroom users and reviewers. Topics...
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A number of geometric constructions are impossible to complete with just a ruler and a compass. This book discusses the most famous of these "impossible" constructions. Part I explores ground rules, history, and angle trisection. Part II treats nonconstructible regular polygons and the algebra associated with them.
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015" Arthur Benjamin is professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. Gary Chartrand is professor emeritus of mathematics at Western Michigan University. Ping Zhang is professor of mathematics at Western Michigan University.
The history, formulas, and most famous puzzles of graph theory
Graph theory goes back several centuries and revolves around the study of graphs-mathematical structures showing...
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Este texto está dirigido a estudiantes de Diseño Gráfico, Arquitectura, Artes y básica secundaria. Su propósito es aplicar la geometría a algunas situaciones relacionadas con el diseño, tales como las vistas de un sólido, la proporción y el número áureo, sin perder la rigurosidad de los conceptos y propiedades de la geometría elemental.
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"How many species are there across the globe? How much do all of the insects in the world collectively weigh? How far can animals travel? Steve Jenkins answers these questions and many more with numbers, images, innovation, and authoritative science in his latest work of illustrated nonfiction. Jenkins layers his signature cut-paper illustrations alongside computer graphics and a text that is teeming with fresh, unexpected, and accurate zoological...
17) Pictographs
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This Level 2 guided reader teaches how to interpret and create pictographs. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about using a scaled pictograph to represent a data set.
18) Bar Graphs
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This Level 2 guided reader teaches how to interpret and create bar graphs. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about using simple bar graphs to represent data.
19) Line Graphs
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This Level 2 guided reader teaches how to interpret and create line graphs. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about creating scales, plotting data points, and using line plots to represent a data set.
20) Pie Graphs
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This Level 2 guided reader teaches how to interpret and create pie graphs. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning how to partition shares, describe parts of a whole, and represent a data set using a pie graph.
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