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New Mathematics Titles
Books released during the week of April 1 |  | Feedback Systems: An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers Karl Johan Åström & Richard M. Murray
"This book is a significant contribution. It provides an accessible treatment for a wide audience who would otherwise have to labor through difficult mathematical or engineering treatments. The only prerequisite is a basic understanding of differential equations and linear algebra."--Brian Ingalls, University of Waterloo |
 | Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin Lawrence Weinstein & John A. Adam
"Guesstimation is a delightful book that, page after page, gleams with insight into the measure of all things--from house pets to lottery tickets and from the kitchen to the cosmos. Meanwhile, the authors cleverly teach you some fundamental chemistry, physics, and biology, leaving you enlightened and curiously comfortable with all that once seemed intractable in the world."--Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History, author of Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries |
 | Impossible? Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums Julian Havil
"Julian Havil's Impossible? is a superb discussion of problems easily understood by a high schooler, yet with solutions so counterintuitive as to seem impossible. Topics include the notorious Monty Hall three-door problem, the Gamow-Stern elevator paradoxes, the Kruskal count card trick, Cantor's 'paradise' of alephs, and the mind-blowing Banach-Tarski paradox, all analyzed in depth by a master who does not hold back equations that provide elegant proofs. There are surprises on almost every page."--Martin Gardner |
 | Introduction to Differential Equations with Dynamical Systems Stephen L. Campbell & Richard Haberman
Many textbooks on differential equations are written to be interesting to the teacher rather than the student. Introduction to Differential Equations with Dynamical Systems is directed toward students. This concise and up-to-date textbook addresses the challenges that undergraduate mathematics, engineering, and science students experience during a first course on differential equations. And, while covering all the standard parts of the subject, the book emphasizes linear constant coefficient equations and applications, including the topics essential to engineering students. |
Books released during the week of March 24 |  | Theories of Population Variation in Genes and Genomes Freddy Bugge Christiansen
This textbook provides an authoritative introduction to both classical and coalescent approaches to population genetics. Written for graduate students and advanced undergraduates by one of the world's leading authorities in the field, the book focuses on the theoretical background of population genetics, while emphasizing the close interplay between theory and empiricism. |
Books released during the week of March 3 |  | Algebraic Curves over a Finite Field J.W.P. Hirschfeld, G. Korchmáros & F. Torres
"Very useful both for research and in the classroom. The main reason to use this book in a classroom is to prepare students for new research in the fields of finite geometries, curves in positive characteristic in a projective space, and curves over a finite field and their applications to coding theory. I think researchers will quote it for a long time."--Edoardo Ballico, University of Trento |
 | Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems Paul J. Nahin
"Paul Nahin's Digital Dice is a marvelous book, one that is even better than his Duelling Idiots. Nahin presents twenty-one great probability problems, from George Gamow's famous elevator paradox (as corrected by Donald Knuth) to a bewildering puzzle involving two rolls of toilet paper, and he solves them all with the aid of Monte Carlo simulations and brilliant, impeccable reasoning."--Martin Gardner |
Books released during the week of February 11 |  | Analysis of Evolutionary Processes: The Adaptive Dynamics Approach and Its Applications Fabio Dercole & Sergio Rinaldi
"The first comprehensive textbook on the methods and applications of adaptive dynamics, Analysis of Evolutionary Processes is very timely indeed. It will be of great interest not only to researchers already using AD but also to those who want to apply it but are not yet familiar with the methods. Dercole and Rinaldi's book is well written, self-contained, and suitable for self-study and teaching in applied mathematics and mathematical biology on the graduate and advanced undergraduate levels."--Stefan A. H. Geritz, University of Helsinki |
Books released during the week of January 28 |  | Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Control: A Lyapunov-Based Approach Wassim M. Haddad & VijaySekhar Chellaboina
"An excellent textbook. This is an up-to-date, comprehensive, and extremely well presented exposition of modern methods in nonlinear control systems. It contains every topic I would like to see in such a book. The writing is superb and the style is clear and lucid. This is a highly welcome addition to the literature."--Frank L. Lewis, University of Texas, Arlington |
Books released during the week of January 7 |  | Flatland: The Movie Edition Edwin A. Abbott with Thomas Banchoff and the Filmmakers of Flatland
"Flatland fueled my interest in mathematics and creative thinking when I was a child. Now this classic story has been reinterpreted as a gloriously vivid movie that will excite both children and adults. This book completes the movie experience by providing the original book, the screenplay of the movie, and comments by the filmmakers."--Scott Kim, Discover Magazine |
Books released during the week of January 3 |  | Flatland: The Movie on DVD
"The animation of Flatland stays close to the original in spirit, reinterpreting the tale for today's audiences. . . . I can imagine young people being intrigued by the ideas. . . . The main objective is to have fun playing around with the dimensional analogy, and I'd say the animation does that very well indeed."--Ian Stewart, Notices of the American Mathematical Society |
 | How Round Is Your Circle? Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet John Bryant & Chris Sangwin
"This book is a mine of exploration and information. I would recommend it to anyone with an interest in how things work and in how mathematics can help make sense of the world. Budding engineers and mathematicians will find it an inspiration."--John Mason, The Open University |
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