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"The numbers one through nine have remarkable mathematical properties and characteristics. For instance, why do eight perfect card shuffles leave a standard deck of cards unchanged? Are there really "six degrees of separation" between all pairs of people? And how can any map need only four colors to ensure that no regions of the same color touch? In Single Digits, Marc Chamberland takes readers on a fascinating exploration of small numbers, from one...
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The Penguin Press
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2014.
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English
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"In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us that math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do--the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It's a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to...
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Developed for an introductory course in mathematical analysis at MIT, this text focuses on concepts, principles, and methods. Its introductions to real and complex analysis are closely formulated, and they constitute a natural introduction to complex function theory. Starting with an overview of the real number system, the text presents results for subsets and functions related to Euclidean space of n dimensions. It offers a rigorous review of the...
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Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
c2017
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English
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Through research into the unique way women talk to one another, this validating and illuminating analysis of female friendship will help women lean into the comfort these powerful relationships offer and avoid the hurt feelings that come from common miscommunications.
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"It teaches the reader how to view trading in the stock market as a 20-Minute Trader and the benefit of purposely not being a pro at trading. You'll receive the best explanation of call options, access to the simplest and easiest charts, learn what a brokerage account is and how to use it, and have the 20-Minute Trader method explained and broken down into detail. Documenting the journey through screenshots of progress along the way and showing his...
8) The flavor matrix: the art and science of pairing common ingredients to create extraordinary dishes
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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2018.
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English
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"A revolutionary new guide to pairing ingredients, based on a famous chef's groundbreaking research into the chemical basis of flavor. As an instructor at one of the world's top culinary schools, James Briscione thought he knew how to mix and match ingredients. Then he met IBMWatson. Working with the supercomputer to turn big data into delicious recipes, Briscione realized that he (like most chefs) knew next to nothing about why different foods taste...
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McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Presents David Dodd and Benjamin Graham's original 1934 guide to value investing, with strategies and advice that are still relevant in the twenty-first century, with additional commentary from contemporary investment professionals.
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English
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"We all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals in How We Talk, these "bad words" are fundamental to language. Whether we are speaking with the clerk at the store, our boss, or our spouse, language is dependent on things as commonplace as a rising tone of voice, an apparently meaningless word, or a glance-signals so small that we hardly pay them any conscious attention. Nevertheless,...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2022]
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English
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A revelatory new guide to building wealth amidst stock market crashes and uncertain economic conditions, drawing upon financial modeling, behavioral psychology, and market history to offer practical advice to everyday investors. Investing is scary. Never is that more true than during market pullbacks and recessions, whether the Great Recession of 2008; the brief, vertiginous COVID crash in 2020; or any number of recent smaller, yet still wrenching,...
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The Economist
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The first quarter of the new century has seen developments in technology, monetary policy, and the management of large companies that have transformed personal savings and investment around the world. Love it, loathe it, or just not interested in it, this innovation has changed not only the nature of money, but our understanding of what it means to invest--whether we want to safeguard our pensions, experiment with personal trading platforms, or simply...
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DK Publishing
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2018.
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English
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"Calling all spice fans, adventurers, and curious cooks: take your spice love to the next level with insight from food scientist and best-selling author Dr. Stuart Farrimond. Learn the science behind the art of creating spice blends, and how the flavor compounds with spices work together to create exciting layers of flavor and new tastes and sensations. With more than 40 regional guides, 60 spices, and 65 authentic and innovative recipes and blends,...
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W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"As Serious Eats's culinary nerd-in-residence, J. Kenji López-Alt has pondered [how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-rare from edge to edge when you cut into it] and more. In [this book], Kenji focuses on the science behind beloved American dishes, delving into the interactions between heat, energy, and molecules that create great food. Kenji shows that often, conventional methods don't work that well,...
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Wayne Research
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2019.
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English
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Advanced Genetic Genealogy: Techniques and Case Studies is a textbook for an advanced DNA course for genealogists. It takes those with an intermediate-level understanding of genetic genealogy to the next level. Case studies demonstrate how to analyze the DNA test results, correlate with documentary evidence, and write about the findings --
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"Discover the answers to your family history mysteries using the most-cutting edge tool available to genealogists. This plain-English guide, newly revised and expanded, is a one-stop resource on genetic genealogy for family historians. Inside, you'll learn what DNA tests are available, with up-to-date pros and cons of the major testing companies (including AncestryDNA) and advice on choosing the right test to answer your specific questions. For those...
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This well-known book provides a clear and concise review of general function theory via complex variables. Suitable for undergraduate math majors, the treatment explores only those topics that are simplest but are also most important for the development of the theory. Prerequisites include a knowledge of the foundations of real analysis and of the elements of analytic geometry. The text begins with an introduction to the system of complex numbers...
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El propósito de este texto es mostrar cómo algunos conceptos matemáticos, como fracción, porcentaje, medias aritméticas y variación porcentual, se aplican en situaciones de la vida cotidiana. La mayoría de ellos se aborda con más de un sistema de representación y, en lo posible, algunos problemas implican la reversibilidad de las operaciones.
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The Schwarz lemma is among the simplest results in complex analysis that capture the rigidity of holomorphic functions. This self-contained volume provides a thorough overview of the subject; it assumes no knowledge of intrinsic metrics and aims for the main results, introducing notation, secondary concepts, and techniques as necessary. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of mathematics, the two-part treatment covers basic theory...
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