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Mathematical Ideas
One of the biggest issues college math instructors face is capturing and keeping student interest. Over the years, John Hornsby has refined a creative solution--bringing the best of Hollywood into his mathematics classroom. Mathematical Ideas applies this same strategy of engaging students through video clips from popular cinema and television to the textbook. Alongside fresh data and tools, this Eleventh Edition uses up-to-the-minute images as well as old favorites of math being done in Hollywood. In addition, examples are clarified with additional annotations, chapter summaries are made more intuitive to aid review, and chapter tests now include specific section references, making it easier for students to refer back to topics that need more attention. With great care and effort, the authors have crafted this new edition to serve the needs of today's students and instructors.
944 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1973
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September 30, 2018
Got most of exciting ideas of math
February 12, 2023
Really gets the abstract brain juices flowing! [Note: I read the sixth edition which has none of the Hollywood weirdness]
October 6, 2023
A well-rounded Mathematical foundation
I am afraid this is one of the few books I marked in (at least in pencil).
You will want to collect different editions to be sure nothing important has been deleted or replaced.
I have had courses before and after this book, but I keep it because it crosses disciplines, or at least shows practical uses and obscure theoretical uses for math.
It is the sidebar information that keeps you intrigued in the book.
A sample sidebar is:
Breaking codes - finding prime factors of extremely large numbers has been considered a mere computer exercise- interesting for improved methods of working with computers, but of no value of its right. This has changed in recent years with the new methods of “computer coding” in which very large numbers are used in an attempt to provide unbreakable codes for computer data. Just as fast as these numbers are used, other people try to find prime factors in them so that the code can be broken.
Then we get how-to examples.
I am afraid this is one of the few books I marked in (at least in pencil).
You will want to collect different editions to be sure nothing important has been deleted or replaced.
I have had courses before and after this book, but I keep it because it crosses disciplines, or at least shows practical uses and obscure theoretical uses for math.
It is the sidebar information that keeps you intrigued in the book.
A sample sidebar is:
Breaking codes - finding prime factors of extremely large numbers has been considered a mere computer exercise- interesting for improved methods of working with computers, but of no value of its right. This has changed in recent years with the new methods of “computer coding” in which very large numbers are used in an attempt to provide unbreakable codes for computer data. Just as fast as these numbers are used, other people try to find prime factors in them so that the code can be broken.
Then we get how-to examples.
May 4, 2011
The book itself was alright, i liked the movie references throughout it. but i didn't use it much, so i cant really say anything other than i spent too much money on it and it wasn't worth it.
May 2, 2013
Textbook used for class Spring 2013.
It's a math book - what else can you say?
It's a math book - what else can you say?
January 2, 2011
Mine is a 2nd edition, lol, total cost $12.95
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