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  The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

  by Edward R. Tufte

  A modern classic. Tufte teaches the fundamentals of graphics, charts, maps and tables. "A visual Strunk and White" (The Boston Globe). Includes 250 delightfullly entertaining illustrations, all beautifully printed.
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  Envisioning Information

  by Edward R. Tufte

  A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking, with beautifully printed pages. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images. -- Rudolf Arnheim
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  Beautiful Evidence

  by Edward R. Tufte

  "Science and art," according to Tufte, "have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information." This book is about how that seeing turns into showing. Tufte, professor emeritus at Yale University and author of three previous widely praised books on visual evidence, displays outstanding examples of the genre. One of the most arresting is Galileo's series of hand-drawn images of... (more)
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  On Size and Life (Scientific American Library)

  by Thomas A. McMahon

  長い進化の過程で出現したさまざまな大きさ,形の生物。その意味を物理学,工学的観点を盛り込みながら解説 本書の筆者は生物学者,工学者であり,生物のサイズが意味するものを数理的に解説する。本文では数式が出てくるので難解な印象を与えるが,豊富な図解,美しいカラー写真が挿入されているので,読んでいて飽きず,各生物の体つきによる自然の中での適応に関する記述は興味をそそられる。アリは何故,自分よりも重い物を運べるのか,小鳥が断続的に羽ばたくのに対し,大型の鳥類は滑空を好むのはなぜか,といった視点で展開される。 ... (more)
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  Statistical Methods in Medical Research

  by P. Armitage

  Presents statistical techniques frequently used in medical research in an understandable format for the non-mathematician. Since the third edition, there have been many developments in statistical techniques. The fourth edition aims to provide the medical statistician with an accessible guide to these techniques and to reflect the extent of their usage in medical research. Uses examples selected almost... (more)
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  Geometric Inequalities (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, Vol. 285) (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften)

  by I?U?. D. Burago

  Text: English, Russian (translation)
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  Introduction to Geometry, 2nd Edition

  by H. S. M. Coxeter

  This classic work is now available in an unabridged paperback edition. The Second Edition retains all the characterisitcs that made the first edition so popular: brilliant exposition, the flexibility permitted by relatively self-contained chapters, and broad coverage ranging from topics in the Euclidean plane, to affine geometry, projective geometry, differential geometry, and topology. The Second Edition ... (more)
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  Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories

  by F. William Lawvere, W. Lawvere

  The idea of a "category"--a sort of mathematical universe--has brought about a remarkable unification and simplification of mathematics. Written by two of the best-known names in categorical logic, Conceptual Mathematics is the first book to apply categories to the most elementary mathematics. It thus serves two purposes: first, to provide a key to mathematics for the general reader or beginning student; and... (more)
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  Mastering the Techniques of Teaching

  by Joseph Lowman

  Now in Paperback! "Masterfully balancing the practitioner's need for concrete suggestions and the scholar's quest for intriguing ideas, this book offers tips to be tried in class tomorrow and ideas to be mused on for months." --Maryellen Weimer, professor, Penn State University-Berks Campus "I have used the first edition of Joe Lowman's book for years and found it most helpful. The new edition is a must for... (more)
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  Spectral Methods in MATLAB (Software, Environments, Tools)

  by Lloyd N. Trefethen

  This is the only book on spectral methods built around MATLAB programs. Along with finite differences and finite elements, spectral methods are one of the three main technologies for solving partial differential equations on computers. Since spectral methods involve significant linear algebra and graphics they are very suitable for the high level programming of MATLAB. This hands-on introduction is built around... (more)
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  Wavelets: Tools for Science & Technology

  by Ste?phane Jaffard

  This long-awaited update of Meyer's Wavelets: Algorithms & Applications includes completely new chapters on four topics: wavelets and the study of turbulence, wavelets and fractals (which includes an analysis of Riemann's nondifferentiable function), data compression, and wavelets in astronomy. The chapter on data compression was the original motivation for this revised edition, and it contains... (more)
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  Functions of Several Variables

  by Wendell Helms Fleming

  The new edition of Function of Several Variables is an extensive revision. Like the first edition it presents a thorough introduction to differential and integral calculus, including the integration of differential forms on manifolds. A new chapter on elementary topology makes the book more complete as an advanced calculus text; sections have been added introducing physical applications in thermodynamics,... (more)
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  The Geometry of Domains in Space (Birkhäuser Advanced Texts / Basler Lehrbücher)

  by Steven G. Krantz

  Traditionally, analysis on Euclidean space is based on the study of the classical groups that act on the space. The classical treatises focus on rotations, dilations, and especially translations; all of these tools and techniques have shaped the way in which classical analysis on Euclidean space has developed. On the other hand, a modern analytical treatment, such as the one presented here, often focuses on... (more)
• Global Differential Geometry (Studies in Mathematics, Vol 27)

  

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  Global Differential Geometry (Studies in Mathematics, Vol 27)

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  Tame Geometry with Application in Smooth Analysis (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

  by Yosef Yomdin

  The Morse-Sard theorem is a rather subtle result and the interplay between the high-order analytic structure of the mappings involved and their geometry rarely becomes apparent. The main reason is that the classical Morse-Sard theorem is basically qualitative. This volume gives a proof and also an "explanation" of the quantitative Morse-Sard theorem and related results, beginning with the study of polynomial (or... (more)
• Why the professor can't teach: Mathematics and the dilemma of university educationMorris Kline

  

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  Why the professor can't teach: Mathematics and the dilemma of university education

  by Morris Kline

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  Exterior Differential Systems and the Calculus of Variations (Progress in Mathematics (Boston, Mass.), V. 25.)

  by Phillip Griffiths

• AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON COORDINATE GEOMETRY OF THREE DIMENSIONS.Robert J. T. Bell

  

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  AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON COORDINATE GEOMETRY OF THREE DIMENSIONS.

  by Robert J. T. Bell

• Nonparametric Density Estimation: The L1 View (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)Luc Devroye, Laszlo Gyorfi

  

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  Nonparametric Density Estimation: The L1 View (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

  by Luc Devroye

  This book gives a rigorous, systematic treatment of density estimates, their construction, use and analysis with full proofs. It develops L1 theory, rather than the classical L2, showing how L1 exposes fundamental properties of density estimates masked by L2. The book examines results in simulation, pattern recognition, detection theory, and minimax theory. An extensive bibliography includes references to the... (more)