Supermath : The Power of Numbers for Good and Evil /
"Weltman discusses ways that math is applied to solve real-world problems in the social sciences, humanities, and arts-all while making complex lines of thought seem simple. The author also highlights stories of people who did not fit the standard portrait of a mathematician but still made mean...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "Weltman discusses ways that math is applied to solve real-world problems in the social sciences, humanities, and arts-all while making complex lines of thought seem simple. The author also highlights stories of people who did not fit the standard portrait of a mathematician but still made meaningful contributions to mathematics"-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (240 pages): illustrations ; |
ISBN: | 9781421438207 |