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Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, first published in 1989, is a textbook that is widely used in computer-science departments as a substantive but light-hearted treatment of the analysis of algorithms .
In the philosophy of mathematics, constructivism asserts that it is necessary to find (or "construct") a specific example of a mathematical object in order to prove that an example exists. Contrastingly, in classical mathematics, one can prove the existence of a mathematical object without "finding" that object explicitly, by assuming its non ...
GeoGebra is software that combines geometry, algebra and calculus for mathematics education in schools and universities. It is available free of charge for non-commercial users. [6] License: open source under GPL license (free of charge) Languages: 55. Geometry: points, lines, all conic sections, vectors, parametric curves, locus lines.
48599327. The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments ( French: Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathématique) is a book by Nicholas Bion, first published in 1709. [1] It was translated into English in 1723 by Edmund Stone. [2] The book describes ways to construct mathematical instruments.
Cocker's Arithmetick. Edward Cocker (authorship disputed) Textbook of arithmetic published in 1678 by John Hawkins, who claimed to have edited manuscripts left by Edward Cocker, who had died in 1676. This influential mathematics textbook used to teach arithmetic in schools in the United Kingdom for over 150 years.
The Geometer's Sketchpad. The Geometer's Sketchpad is a commercial interactive geometry software program for exploring Euclidean geometry, algebra, calculus, and other areas of mathematics. It was created as part of the NSF -funded Visual Geometry Project led by Eugene Klotz and Doris Schattschneider from 1986 to 1991 at Swarthmore College. [1]
In topology, a branch of mathematics, the James reduced product or James construction J ( X) of a topological space X with given basepoint e is the quotient of the disjoint union of all powers X, X2, X3, ... obtained by identifying points ( x1 ,..., xk−1, e, xk+1 ,..., xn) with ( x1 ,..., xk−1, xk+1 ,..., xn ). In other words, its ...
Contraction mapping. In mathematics, a contraction mapping, or contraction or contractor, on a metric space ( M , d) is a function f from M to itself, with the property that there is some real number such that for all x and y in M , The smallest such value of k is called the Lipschitz constant of f. Contractive maps are sometimes called ...