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Mentire con le statistiche
Libro del mese di Aprile è Mentire con le statistiche di Darrell Huff. Mentire con le statistiche è l’edizione italiana di How to lie with statistics. È per tutte le persone che desiderano capire meglio il significato di numeri, dati … Continue reading
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Libro del mes: Como Mentir com a Estatística
Libro del mes de abril es Cómo mentir con estadísticas de Darrell Huff. Lo que estas páginas, escritas con ingenio y humor, nos ofrecen es, en realidad, un curso de sentido común para aprender a descubrir los ardides con los … Continue reading
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How To Lie With Statistics
April’s Book of the Month is How To Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff. Norton reissued this 1954 book in 1993, and this edition is available on Kindle. There is a 1991 Penguin edition and it has been translated into … Continue reading
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The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
March’s Book of the Month is: The Exact Sciences in Antiquity by Otto Neugebauer. Second edition published in 1957 by Brown University Press, now republished by Dover in 1969. Commentary adapted from the Amazon website, see this link for further … Continue reading
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Site du mois: CultureMATH
Site du mois de Mars: CultureMATH CultureMATH est un site dédié à la formation des professeurs de mathématiques du secondaire. Les articles publiés présentent des notions mathématiques du programme scolaire dans l’objectif de les revisiter, de les présenter d’une manière … Continue reading
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CultureMATH
March’s Site of the Month is: CultureMATH CultureMATH is a French language website dedicated to secondary mathematics teacher education. Published articles present mathematical ideas at several levels. The topics are often related to the curriculum, to present them more deeply. … Continue reading
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Mathematical Etudes
February’s Site of the Month: Mathematical Etudes This is a Russian site, but has an English and a French version, use “en” or “fr” at the end of the URL. The site contains several 3D animated films that illustrate theorems … Continue reading
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The Story of a Number
February’s Book of the Month is: The Story of a Number by Eli Manor. First published in 1993 and available in paperback in the Princeton Science Library. From the “Goodreads” website. See here for more details. “…. Geared to the … Continue reading
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The Largest Known Primes
January’s Site of the Month: The Largest Known Primes – A Summary In January a new largest prime was found – with over 22 million digits. Cooper, Woltman, Kurowski and Blosser used GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) which is … Continue reading
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Handel in der Stadt
Die Autoren des Originaltextes sind Alberto A. Pintoa (Universität Porto, cLIAAD-INESC Porto LA) und Telmo Parreira (Universität Minho, cLIAAD-INESC Porto LA). Warst du je frustriert von dem Mangel an Auswahl, wenn du etwas kaufen gehst? Warum neigen die Produzenten dazu … Continue reading
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