Wspc imprint: 2707 books
by Kung Ching Chang, Tan Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This is based on the course "Calculus of Variations" taught at Peking University from 2006 to 2010 for advanced undergraduate to graduate students majoring in mathematics. The book contains 20 lectures covering both the theoretical background material as well as an abundant collection of...
Asymptotic Integration and Stability
For Ordinary, Functional and Discrete Differential Equations of Fractional Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
This volume presents several important and recent contributions to the emerging field of fractional differential equations in a self-contained manner. It deals with new results on existence, uniqueness and multiplicity, smoothness, asymptotic development, and stability of solutions. The new topics...
Doing Mathematics
Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Doing Mathematics discusses some ways mathematicians and mathematical physicists do their work and the subject matters they uncover and fashion. The conventions they adopt, the subject areas they delimit, what they can prove and calculate about the physical world, and the analogies they discover and...
by Alfred S Posamentier, Stephen Krulik
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
"This is a nice collection of board games, and when pupils will play such games, they will develop some winning strategies for these games, and these skills will probably help in cultivating certain attitudes and perhaps working schemes to tackle mathematical problems."
European Mathematical...
Tools to Help Your Children Learn Math
Strategies, Curiosities, and Stories to Make Math Fun for Parents and Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Parents need to take an ever-increasing role in their child's learning experience. However, what to do and how to do it is often not prescribed to the parents. This book offers a wide variety of aspects related to the parent's role as a support to their child's learning of mathematics, and above all...
by Alfred S Posamentier, Stephen Krulik
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Many schools throughout the United States are now employing coaches to support teachers in the teaching of mathematics. Very often, these are professionals selected from the current teaching ranks who did not receive any special training to serve as a coach. This book provides the skills, knowledge,...
Mathematics Education in Korea
Volume 2: Contemporary Trends in Researches in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This volume shows how the history and practices of mathematics education in Korea (from Volume 7) have been influenced by Japan, America and other countries, developing into the unique Korean style of mathematics education.
Research content and practices currently being conducted are also covered,...
Nurturing Reflective Learners in Mathematics
Yearbook 2013, Association of Mathematics Educators
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This fifth volume in the series of yearbooks by the Association of Mathematics Educators in Singapore entitled Nurturing Reflective Learners in Mathematics is unique in that it focuses on a single theme in mathematics education. The objective is to encourage teachers and researchers to advance reflection...
by Dick Hess
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Population Explosion and Other Mathematical Puzzles is a wonderful addition to Dr Dick Hess's previous successful books, Mental Gymnastics: Recreational Mathematical Puzzles, Golf on the Moon, (Dover Publishing, 2011 and 2014 respectively) and Number-Crunching Math Puzzles (Puzzlewright, 2013), a...
by M L Munjal
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Vibration and noise are two interrelated terms in the field of mechanical engineering. Vibration is caused by unbalanced inertial forces and moments whereas noise is the result of such vibrations. Noisy machines have always been a matter of concern. Lesser vibration ensures manufacturing to closer...
An Open and Shut Case
The Story of Keyhole or Minimally Invasive Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Keyhole surgery has been made possible through the rapid development of various medical technologies, first pioneered in the 1970s. Revolutionary in the way it reduced the risk, surgical complications, healing time and scarring compared to open surgery, keyhole surgery soon became the preferred method...
Surgery for Diabetic Foot
A Practical Operative Manual
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This is the first textbook on surgery for Diabetic Foot in the world. It is written as a practical surgery manual for residents and young surgeons performing surgical procedures for patients with diabetic foot problems. Such a guide will be useful not only to residents and surgeons in Singapore but...
A Computable Universe
Understanding and Exploring Nature as Computation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
This volume, with a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose, discusses the foundations of computation in relation to nature.
It focuses on two main questions:
What is computation?
How does nature compute?
The contributors are world-renowned experts who have helped shape a cutting-edge computational...
Unlocking Consciousness
Lessons from the Convergence of Computing and Cognitive Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
In order to bridge the gap between artificial and synthetic intelligence, we must first understand our own intelligence. 'What is intelligence?' might appear as a simple question, but many great minds have agreed that there is no singular answer. Unlocking Consciousness attempts to examine this central...