The Hilbert Challenge
 An excellent history of Hilbert and his problems: At the turn of the last century, David Hilbert posed 23 problems that he considered to be the most critical ones to be solved in the 20th century. Certainly the best mathematician of his time, the [... more]
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An Introduction to Wavelets and Other Filtering Methods ...
The Guide: Various types of non-stationarities are common in time series data from financial markets. This requires a guide for selecting among numerous tools to deal with the non-stationarity. A unified treatment of filters like this book is a great [... more]
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Theory of Hp Spaces
This book is a classic: The first edition of this book appeared about thirty years ago and unfortunately wasn't very popular as a textbook because of its limited availability. This new edition makes it possible for many readers (including me) to own it [... more]
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A Chemist's Guide to Density Functional Theory, 2nd Edition
DFT for Physicists Also!: From a physicist's point of view this book is very clear at explaining Density Functional Theory (DFT). The authors use many chemical examples, but still can be applied to physics. Many physics books on DFT assume the reader [... more]
$105.00
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Precalculus Enhanced With Graphing Utilities (3rd Edition)
For the serious precalculus student: I teach high school math and reviewed many textbooks before I chose this title. The examples are diverse and the problem sets complete. Students will appreciate the excellent review at the end of each chapter. [... more]
$120.67
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Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems: ...
Just Plain Not Good: This book has several problems. 1. There are numerous typos in the text as well as in the solutions printed in the back of the book (and in the solutions manual). It can be very frustrating to puzzle over a problem for a long time [... more]
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Advantage Series: Precalculus with Unit-Circle Trigonometry
excellent text: While I have not taught from this book and have not gone through the entire text, from what I've seen this is an excellent text. From the preface: "(E)xamples are consistently used to introduce, to explain and to motivate concepts... [... more]
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Precalculus: Graphing and Data Analysis (2nd Edition)
Consider other books first: If you already know precalculus at the level of a college professor, this may be the book for you. Vital steps for completing problems are omitted, explanations are not given for processes that must be understood. Definitions [... more]
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Real Analysis (3rd Edition)
Not perfect, but better than the rest: I'm a PhD student in mathematics at Georgia Tech. I used this when I first took graduate real analysis at North Dakota State, and then used Wheeden and Zygmund's Measure and Integral here at Georgia Tech as well as [... more]
$124.00
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Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value ...
waste: If you are a college professor looking to brush up, then it is fine, otherwise this book is terrible. Too hard: The book uses weird symbols than what I am used to. Hard language to understand. I wouldn't recommend it to another person. The book I [... more]
$126.40
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Convexity and Optimization in Rn
AN AMAZING, LIFE CHANGING BOOK: This book fully explains the convexity of math. The author really seems to know what he is talking about. It's almost as if math is somehow fun again. Convexity and Optimization in Rn is just amazing. I cannot stand math, [... more]
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Elliptic Curves: Function Theory, Geometry, Arithmetic
Book Description: The subject of elliptic curves is one of the jewels of 19th century mathematics, whose masters were Abel, Gauss, Jacobi, and Legendre. This book presents account of the subject in the style of the original discoverers, with references [... more]
$46.99
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