De media brengen dagelijks berichten over wetenschap, maar de wiskunde en statistiek die daar in schuil gaan, blijven bijna altijd buiten beeld. Dat is voor een groot deel onvermijdelijk, maar het kan leiden tot ontoelaatbare versimpeling en hardnekkige misverstanden in de publieke opinie. Dan is er ook een grote kans dat de politiek daarop onzinnig beleid gaat voeren. In dit Zebraboekje wordt de wiskunde expliciet gemaakt achter onder meer de effectiviteit van medische tests, extreem weer do...

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Deze uitgave bevat de belangrijkste leerstof van alle richtingen A, B,C en D van het vwo op examen-niveau.

In dertien afzonderlijke hoofdstukken worden theorie en opgaven als compleet geheel behandeld van: Algebra, analyse, meetkunde, statistiek kansrekening, vectoralgebra, grafen en matrices, rijen en reeksen, dynamische modellen, logica, perspectief en complexe getallen. Van de, in het onderwijs sinds lang gebruikte didactische, concentrische leermethode van Prof. Herbart, ...

Why did the stock market crash more than 500 points on a single Monday in 1987? Why do ancient species often remain stable in the fossil record for millions of years and then suddenly disappear? In a world where nice guys often finish last, why do humans value trust and cooperation? At first glance these questions don't appear to have anything in common, but in fact every one of these statements refers to a complex system. The science of complexity studies how single elements, such as a speci...

The three fixed lights, or windows, subsequently exchanged for our lesser luminaries, were explained one hundred and fifty years ago to signify "the three Persons, Father, Son, Holy Ghost; " and were used to find out the meridian, "when the sun leaves the south, and breaks in at the west window of the Lodge." While the "mossy bed," the ancient signs of disgust and recognition, as well as the primitive name of a Master Mason, are equally obscure at the present day; having been swept away, alon...

The present work is constructed on the same plan as my treatise on Plane Trigonometry, to which it is intended as a sequel; it contains all the propositions usually included under the head of Spherical Trigonometry, together with a large collection of examples for exercise. In the course of the work reference is made to preceding writers from whom assistance has been obtained; besides these writers I have consulted the treatises on Trigonometry by Lardner, Lefebure de Fourcy, and Snowball, an...

In the Chapter on ‘Propositions of Existence’ I have adopted a new ‘normal form,’ in which the Class, whose existence is affirmed or denied, is regarded as the Predicate, instead of the Subject, of the Proposition, thus evading a very subtle difficulty which besets the other form.

These subtle difficulties seem to lie at the root of every Tree of Knowledge, and they are far more hopeless to grapple with than any that occur in its higher branches. For example, the difficulties of the F...