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Dude, Can You Count? Stories, Challenges, and Adventures in Mathematics  Cover Image E-book E-book

Dude, Can You Count? [electronic resource] : Stories, Challenges, and Adventures in Mathematics / edited by Christian Constanda.

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  • ISBN: 9781848825390
  • Physical Description: XIX, 294p. 25 illus. online resource.
  • Publisher: London : Springer London, 2009.
Subject: Mathematics.
Algebra.
Geometry.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Mathematics.
Mathematics, general.
Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology.
Algebra.
Geometry.
Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

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Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
SCAM 1 JJ and the MICQ
SCAM 2 The Mathematical Commandments
SCAM 3 The Public School System
SCAM 4 The School Mathematical Education
SCAM 5 Language, Grammar, and Punctuation
SCAM 6 Foreign Languages
SCAM 7 Foreign Countries and Foreigners
SCAM 8 Mathematics and the Public
SCAM 9 The Question of Calculus
SCAM 10 Political Correctness
SCAM 11 TV Advertising
SCAM 12 Highway Driving
SCAM 13 Units of Measurement
SCAM 14 Percentages and Living on Debt
SCAM 15 Modern Art
SCAM 16 Averages and Buying Cars
SCAM 17 The Public Media
SCAM 18 The Criminal Legal System
SCAM 19 Civil Litigation
SCAM 20 Statistics and Probability
SCAM 21 Academic Politics
SCAM 22 Antisocial Behavior
SCAM 23 Mathematicians Versus Engineers
SCAM 24 The Evolution of Knowledge
SCAM 25 The Virtues of Mathematics
Epilogue
Index.

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