Matematicas para los estudiantes de humanidades / Mathematics for Liberal Arts Students

Este texto está dirigido a estudiantes de Diseño Gráfico, Arquitectura, Artes y básica secundaria. Su propósito es aplicar la geometría a algunas situaciones relacionadas con el diseño, tales como las vistas de un sólido, la proporción y el número áureo, sin perder la rigurosidad de los conceptos y propiedades de la geometría elemental.

Esta obra en dos volúmenes ha surgido del curso de Álgebra lineal y Geometría analítica que el primero de los firmantes ha dado en la Universidad técnica de Munich para estudiantes de primer año de Matemáticas y Física. El libro está pensado para seguir este curso, pero también para que un estudiante de primer año pueda estudiarlo por sí mismo.

"Who invented zero? Why 60 seconds in a minute? How big is infinity? Where do parallel lines meet? And can a butterfly's wings really cause a storm on the far side of the world? In 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know, Professor Tony Crilly explains in 50 clear and concise essays the mathematical concepts - ancient and modern, theoretical and practical, everyday and esoteric - that allow us to understand and shape the world around us. Beginning with zero itself and concluding with the last great unsolved problem, 50 Mathematical Ideas introduces the origins of mathematics, from...

First published in English as a title in Barron's Painless subject review series for middle school and high school students, Painless Algebra has now been translated to help students whose first language is Spanish. Algebra is often daunting to students when they are first introduced to the subject. In this book, the author eliminates confusion and creates interest by taking math details one step at a time, demonstrating that problem solving can be fun. A user-friendly first chapter presents algebraic terms and gives simple explanations for each of them. The following chapter instructs on the ...