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How To Lie With Statistics

Posted on April 3, 2016 by admin

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

Posted on March 18, 2016 by admin

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

Posted on March 12, 2016 by admin

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

Posted on March 12, 2016 by admin

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

Posted on March 4, 2016 by admin

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

Posted on February 26, 2016 by admin

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

Posted on February 20, 2016 by admin

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

Posted on February 11, 2016 by admin

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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الرياضيات للملايين

Posted on January 21, 2016 by admin

الكتاب المتميّز لشهر يناير 2016 : “الرياضيات للملايين: كيفية السيطرة على سحر الأعداد” Mathematics for the Million المؤلف : لنسلوت هوگبن Lancelot Hogben الطبعة الأولى 1936، ثم أعيد طبعه عدة مرات. من المقدمة: “إن الطريقة المعتادة لتأليف كتاب حول الرياضيات … Continue reading →

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مواضيع في التاريخ لأقسام الرياضيات

Posted on January 21, 2016 by admin

الكتاب المتميّز لشهر ديسمبر 2015 : “مواضيع في التاريخ لأقسام الرياضيات” Historical Topics for the Mathematics Classroom المشرفون على التأليف: – ج. ك. بومگارت J.K. Baumgart، – د. أ. ديل D.E. Deal، – ب. ر. فوجليB.R. Vogeli، – أ. أ. … Continue reading →

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