'Dat gebeurt zelden: een boek over wiskunde dat je in één ruk wilt uitlezen. Ook helemaal nieuw: een boek over wiskunde waar je soms hardop om moet lachen ... Een ingenieuze geschiedenis van de symmetrie.'- NRC Handelsblad'Een mooi en meeslepend boek.'- de VolkskrantIn zijn persoonlijke zoektocht naar de geheimen van symmetrie neemt Marcus du Sautoy de lezer mee op zijn reis rond de wereld en door de geschiedenis: van het Alhambra in Granada naar de Franse revolutie en van de Goldberg Varia...

Managing, controlling and improving quality is a critical activity in modern business organizations. Quality is directly linked to productivity, competitiveness, customer satisfaction, business growth, elimination of waste and other non-value added activities, and overall business success. Cycle time and throughput is just as important in a hospital emergency room as it is in a semiconductor factory.

Defects and errors don't occur just in factories, they occur in transactional and service bus...

Financial Risk Forecasting is a complete introduction to practical quantitative risk management, with a focus on market risk. Derived from the authors teaching notes and years spent training practitioners in risk management techniques, it brings together the three key disciplines of finance, statistics and modeling (programming), to provide a thorough grounding in risk management techniques. Written by renowned risk expert Jon Danielsson, the book begins with an introduction to financial mark...

Intended for students with a beginning knowledge of mathematical analysis, this first volume, in a three-part introduction to Fourier analysis, introduces the core areas of mathematical analysis while also illustrating the organic unity between them. It includes numerous examples and applications.

Elementary Number Theory, 6th Edition, blends classical theory with modern applications and is notable for its outstanding exercise sets. A full range of exercises, from basic to challenging, helps students explore key concepts and push their understanding to new heights. Computational exercises and computer projects are also available.

Reflecting many years of professor feedback, this edition offers new examples, exercises, and applications, while incorporating advancements and discoveries i...

This thoroughly revised edition presents statistical concepts computationally, rather than mathematically, using programs written in Python. Through practical examples and exercises based on real-world datasets, you'll learn the entire process of exploratory data analysis-from wrangling data and generating statistics to identifying patterns.

"DE EERSTE TIEN MILJOEN CIJFERS VAN π" is een uniek en boeiend boek dat volledig is gewijd aan het tonen van de eerste 10 miljoen cijfers van pi. Dit boek is een eerbetoon aan de oneindigheid van deze wiskundige constante die al eeuwenlang de wiskundigen en wetenschappers intrigeert en fascineert.

Het boek is gepresenteerd in een elegante en minimalistische opmaak, zonder extra tekst, illustraties of annotaties. De focus ligt volledig op de cijfers zelf, met de cijfers van pi gerangschikt o...