Did You Say Mathematics?
Tác giả: Ya. Khurgin
Ký hiệu tác giả: KH-Y
Dịch giả: George Yankovsky
DDC: 510 - Toán học
Ngôn ngữ: Anh
Số cuốn: 1

Hiện trạng các bản sách

Mã số: 258SB0010519
Nhà xuất bản: Mir Publishers, Moscow
Năm xuất bản: 1974
Khổ sách: 17
Số trang: 359
Kho sách: Thư viện Sao Biển
Tình trạng: Hiện có
A FEW WORDS WITH THE READER 9
Mathematician and physiologist get together in September 12
Mathematician and physiologist get together in Decembers 20
A radio engineer needs math 25
One last word to the reader 31
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MATHE- MATICS? 33
What is mathematics all about? 35
A little historical background 36
RUBBER-SHEET MATHEMATICS 41
Mathematics and art 47
Continuous transformations 47
A remarkable surface 55
Graphs 58
NUMBERS AND POINTS  71
THE MATHEMATICS OF A SADDLE 88
Extrema 96
Extremal curves 106
The epoch of Euler 108
Soap bubbles 110
MATHEMATICIANS ARE NOT ALL ALIKE 114
Where do axioms come from? 116
Two ways of reasoning 117
Induction and mathematical induction 125
The drama of equation solving-an historical sketch 129
ENGINEER CONSULTS MATHEMATICIAN 136
What is better? 141
Criteria 147
Optimization 150
How close? 152
Mary and Maude 155
Integrals-not so terrible after all 157
Space, distance, norm 162
Terms and where they come from 169
The problems of an oil engineer 172
Choosing a job 174
Model building 184
Mathematical models 187
Events and their models 191
Does one really need a mathematical model? 197
Modelling the oil-refining process 206
YOU PROBABLY LIKE THIS BOOK 209
Probability theory. Some background 212
 Random events 213
Probability 214
An experiment and what came of it 216
Engineer consults mathematician 222
Experimenter and statistician 227
Decision making 231
Intuition and birthdays 234
Intuition and luck 239
Random walks 246
The drunkard's walk 258
The random-walk student 260
INFORMATION 268
Memory and codes 271
Information and what it's all about 278
Quantitative measures 282
The capacity of a communication channel 288
Coding 290
A language model and the transmission of information 295
Basic principle of the theory of the trans- mission of information 297
What about the content? 300
MATHEMATICAL MACHINES AND WHAT THEY CAN DO 303
The psychiatrist drops in for a talk 310
Pattern recognition 318
Technical diagnostics 327
Medical diagnostics 338
Replacing doc with a diagnostic machine 347
What is our life? A game... 349
One final word to the reader 360