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Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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3 videodiscs (558 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 112 pages ; 19 cm) + 1 transcript book (iv., 329 pages ; 19 cm).
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"Understanding the connections between music and mathematics helps you appreciate both, even if you have no special ability in either field--from knowing the mathematics behind tuning an instrument to understanding the features that define your favorite pieces. By exploring the mathematics of music, you also learn why non-Western music sounds so different, gain insight into the technology of modern sound reproduction, and start to hear the world around...
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Pub. Date
2010
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xv, 318 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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"Were you traumatized by high school calculus? Does the mere mention of integrals and derivatives make you queasy? Jennifer Ouellette feels your pain. She never took math in college, mostly because she -- like most people -- assumed that she wouldn't need it in real life. But then the English-major-turned-award-winning-science-writer had a change of heart and decided to revisit the equations and formulas that had haunted her for years. And she's here...
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Pub. Date
c2012
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xiv, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Annotation This work teaches students the mathematics required for success in today's world in an easy-to-read, user-friendly format. It covers all the need-to-know information and skills in business math and personal finance topics.
10) Zero sum game
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Series
Cas Russell novels volume 1
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Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight, and she'll take any job for the right price. As far as Cas knows, she's the only person around with a superpower...until she discovers someone with a power even more dangerous than her own. Someone who can reach directly into people's minds and twist their brains into Moebius strips....
11) Anathem
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Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
12) The zero theorem
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : color, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story about a computer hacker in a dystopian sci-fi world. Living under constant surveillance by 'Management,' he strives to solve The Zero Theorem, a mathematical formula that may hold the key to the meaning of life.
14) Math doesn't suck: how to survive middle school math without losing your mind or breaking a nail
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Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xix, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mona Gray is a quirky young woman who hides in a private world of numbers after her beloved mathematician father falls ill. But when Mona is offered a job as an elementary school math teacher, she will introduce the students to her own eccentric gift for numerical obsession. Can the joys of arithmetic multiplied by a shy romance with the school science teacher help Mona discover a new life she can count on?
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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264 pages ; 22 cm.
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Struggling with her Puerto Rican identity, her grandfather's memory loss and transfer to a nursing home, and her sister's depression, seventh-grader Cassie joins the Mathletes at school, finding comfort in numbers and in her new friendship with Aaron.
20) Hide and go beak
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Series
Great Mathemachicken volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
75 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"A chicken hops a ride to school to see what the humans do there all day and unlocks the superpowers of math and science, which she uses to save the coop"-- Provided by publisher.
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