Peter Winkler is at it again. Following the enthusiastic reaction to "Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection", Peter has compiled a new collection of elegant mathematical puzzles to challenge and entertain the reader. The puzzles in this collection include an eclectic collection of twists on old favorites, "severe" difficulty puzzles, and puzzles that were recently so...(展开全部)

Peter Winkler is at it again. Following the enthusiastic reaction to "Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection", Peter has compiled a new collection of elegant mathematical puzzles to challenge and entertain the reader. The puzzles in this collection include an eclectic collection of twists on old favorites, "severe" difficulty puzzles, and puzzles that were recently so...(展开全部)

Only an elementary knowledge of math is needed to enjoy this entertaining compilation of brain-teasers. It includes a mixture of old and new riddles covering a variety of mathematical topics: money, speed, plane and solid geometry, probability, topology, tricky puzzles and more. Carefully explained solutions follow each problem. 65 black-and-white illustrations.

Only an elementary knowledge of math is needed to enjoy this entertaining compilation of brain-teasers. It includes a mixture of old and new riddles covering a variety of mathematical topics: money, speed, plane and solid geometry, probability, topology, tricky puzzles and more. Carefully explained solutions follow each problem. 65 black-and-white illustrations.

This classic introduction to the main areas of mathematical logic provides the basis for a first graduate course in the subject. It embodies the viewpoint that mathematical logic is not a collection of vaguely related results, but a coherent method of attacking some of the most interesting problems, which face the mathematician. The author presents the basic concepts in an unus...(展开全部)

The new edition of Mathematical Modeling, the survey text of choice for mathematical modeling courses, adds ample instructor support and online delivery for solutions manuals and software ancillaries. From genetic engineering to hurricane prediction, mathematical models guide much of the decision making in our society. If the assumptions and methods underlying the modeling are ...(展开全部)

Undergraduate students with no prior classroom instruction in mathematical logic will benefit from this evenhanded multipart text by one of the centuries greatest authorities. Part I offers an elementary but thorough overview of mathematical logic of first order. Part II introduces some of the newer ideas and the more profound results of logical research in the twentieth centur...(展开全部)

Explores additional important decidability results in this thoroughly updated new edition Introduces mathematical logic by analyzing foundational questions on proofs and provability in mathematics Highlights the capabilities and limitations of algorithms and proof methods both in mathematics and computer science Examines advanced topics, such as linking logic with computability...(展开全部)

This graduate textbook covers topics in statistical theory essential for graduate students preparing for work on a Ph.D. degree in statistics. This new edition has been revised and updated and in this fourth printing, errors have been ironed out. The first chapter provides a quick overview of concepts and results in measure-theoretic probability theory that are useful in statis...(展开全部)