I wish they'd taught me that : overlooked and omitted topics in mathematics /
I Wish They'd Taught Me That: Overlooked and Omitted Topics in Mathematics concerns the topics which every undergraduate mathematics student "should" know but has probably never encountered. These topics are not the ones which dominate every syllabus, but those magnificent secrets tha...
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| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton FL :
A K Peters/CRC Press,
2026.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | AK Peters/CRC recreational mathematics series.
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Table of Contents:
- Author Bios List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Irrationality Chapter 2 Generating functions Chapter 3 Polynomial systems Chapter 4 Transfinite induction Chapter 5 The Brownian zoo Chapter 6 Approximation by polynomials Chapter 7 Public-key cryptography Chapter 8 Asymptotic analysis Chapter 9 Fractional dimension Chapter 10 Ultrafilters Chapter 11 Scissors congruence Chapter 12 Brownian safari Index of Topics Index of Names