Joseph Mazur

The Maths and Myths of Coincidences

Fluke

Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math

Euclid in the Rainforest

Matematik Sembollerinin Kisa Tarihi

Named one of Book Riot's Six Great Nonfiction Books about Time: a tour of clocks throughout the centuries--from the sandglass to the telomere--that reveals the physical, biological, and social nature of time "[A] mind-stretching book. . . . Skilfully written."--John Carey, Sunday Times (London) What is time? This question has fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists for thousands of years. Why does time seem to speed up with age? What is its connection with memory, anticipation, and sleep cycles? Award-winning author and mathematician Joseph Mazur provides an engaging exploration of how the understanding of time has evolved throughout human history and offers a compelling new vision, submitting that time lives within us. Our cells, he notes, have a temporal awareness, guided by environmental cues in sync with patterns of social interaction. Readers learn that, as a consequence of time's personal nature, a forty-eight-hour journey on the space shuttle can feel shorter than a six-hour trip on the Soyuz capsule, that the Amondawa of the Amazon do not have ages, and that time speeds up with fever and slows down when we feel in danger. With a narrative punctuated by personal stories of time's effects on truck drivers, Olympic racers, prisoners, and clockmakers, Mazur's journey is filled with fascinating insights into how our technologies, our bodies, and our attitudes can change our perceptions. Ultimately, time reveals itself as something that rides on the rhythms of our minds. The Clock Mirage presents an innovative perspective that will force us to rethink our relationship with time, and how best to use it.

Our Myth of Measured Time

The Clock Mirage

The 2,500-Year Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space

The Motion Paradox

Unraveling the Ancient Mystery Behind the Science of Space and Time

Zeno's Paradox

Like Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, and David Berlinski’s A Tour of the Calculus, Euclid in the Rainforest combines the literary with the mathematical to explore logic—the one indispensable tool in man’s quest to understand the world. Underpinning both math and science, it is the foundation of every major advancement in knowledge since the time of the ancient Greeks. Through adventure stories and historical narratives populated with a rich and quirky cast of characters, Mazur artfully reveals the less-than-airtight nature of logic and the muddled relationship between math and the real world. Ultimately, Mazur argues, logical reasoning is not purely robotic. At its most basic level, it is a creative process guided by our intuitions and beliefs about the world.

This article seeks to understand how China has managed to achieve such high rates of growth over the past four decades despite the absence of a veritable rule of law. A large body of research suggests that a strong rule of law is a key prerequisite for sustained economic development, but China's unique political economy which vests limited power in its judiciary seems to defy conventional wisdom on this count. Taking as a starting point Yang Yao's concept of 'disinterested government', that is, a government that eschews differentiated interests within a society in favour of a concerted focus on national development, the authors examine the mechanisms by which Chinese leadership has maintained extraordinary growth without the benefit of the rule of law. Specifically, this article argues that the defining features of a disinterested government fulfill many of the same roles as the rule of law from a developmental perspective.

China's Disinterested Government and the Rule of Law

Qualitative Geometry

How the Idea of Motion Drove the Advance of Western Civilization

Zeno S Arrow

Mathematician Mazur traces the history of gambling from the earliest known archaeological evidence of dice-playing among Neolithic peoples to the first systematic mathematical games of change during the Renaissance, and explains the mathematics behind gambling--including the laws of probability, statistics, and betting against expectations. Photos.

The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler's Illusion

What's Luck Got to Do with It?

Em Acaso, como a matemática explica as coincidências da vida, Joseph Mazur observa de forma detalhada o que parece improvável, nos guia entre os conceitos matemáticos da probabilidade, e combina esses conceitos com anedotas sobre casualidades de todas as partes do mundo. O livro nos oferece uma prova da inevitabilidade do sublime e do inesperado, e vai interessar a qualquer um que já tenha se perguntado como as pequenas decisões tomadas em nossa vida nos levam a desfechos improváveis. Indispensável para entusiastas da matemática, Acaso nos ajuda a entender a verdadeira natureza da probabilidade.

Como a matemática explica as coincidências da vida

Acaso

Ross L. Finney

George B. Thomas

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Calculus and analytic geometry

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Calculus and Analytic Geometry

University of Warwick

The Relative Étale Topology for Unbedded Subschemes

A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers

Enlightening Symbols (eGalley)

A supplementary guide which aims to encourage students to develop efficient skills for studying calculus. It is intended for use with any calculus book.

How to Study Calculus

The hazards of feeling lucky in gambling Why do so many gamblers risk it all when they know the odds of winning are against them? Why do they believe dice are "hot" in a winning streak? Why do we expect heads on a coin toss after several flips have turned up tails? What's Luck Got to Do with It? takes a lively and eye-opening look at the mathematics, history, and psychology of gambling to reveal the most widely held misconceptions about luck. It exposes the hazards of feeling lucky, and uses the mathematics of predictable outcomes to show when our chances of winning are actually good. Mathematician Joseph Mazur traces the history of gambling from the earliest known archaeological evidence of dice playing among Neolithic peoples to the first systematic mathematical studies of games of chance during the Renaissance, from government-administered lotteries to the glittering seductions of grand casinos, and on to the global economic crisis brought on by financiers' trillion-dollar bets. Using plenty of engaging anecdotes, Mazur explains the mathematics behind gambling—including the laws of probability, statistics, betting against expectations, and the law of large numbers—and describes the psychological and emotional factors that entice people to put their faith in winning that ever-elusive jackpot despite its mathematical improbability. As entertaining as it is informative, What's Luck Got to Do with It? demonstrates the pervasive nature of our belief in luck and the deceptive psychology of winning and losing. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

The fascinating story of an ancient riddle and what it reveals about the nature of time and space Three millennia ago, the Greek philosopher Zeno constructed a series of logical paradoxes to prove that motion is impossible. Today, these paradoxes remain on the cutting edge of our investigations into the fabric of space and time. Zeno's Paradox uses the motion paradox as a jumping-off point for an exploration of the twenty-five-hundred-year quest to uncover the true nature of the universe. From Galileo to Einstein to Stephen Hawking, some of the greatest minds in history have tackled the problem and made spectacular breakthroughs, but through it all, the paradox of motion remains.

Cos’è il tempo? Questa domanda ha affascinato filosofi, matematici e scienziati per migliaia di anni,ma sembra non poter trovare risposta. Perché il tempo sembra accelerare con l’età? Qual è la sua connessione con i cicli della memoria? A fornire ognuna di queste risposte ci prova Joseph Mazur: partendo da Zenone per arrivare alla fisica quantistica, ci aiuta a capire come il rapporto tra uomo e tempo si è evoluto nel corso della storia. La tesi di Mazur è molto semplice: il tempo vive dentro di noi. Le nostre cellule sono dotate di consapevolezza temporale, e così un viaggio sullo Space Shuttle può sembrare più breve di un viaggio di sei ore in treno. Quello di Mazur è un viaggio divertente e pieno di intuizioni su come cambiano le nostre percezioni, compreso lo scorrere del tempo.

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