Navigating the Math Major

2024-06-14 Mathematics

Author : Carrie Diaz Eaton
Release : 2024-06-14
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Rating : 839/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Navigating the Math Major written by Carrie Diaz Eaton. This book was released on 2024-06-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a mathematics major or thinking about becoming one? This friendly guidebook is for you, no matter where you are in your studies. For those just starting out, there are: interactive exercises to help you chart your personalized course, brief overviews of the typical courses you will encounter during your studies, recommended extracurricular activities that can enrich your mathematical journey. Mathematics majors looking for effective ways to support their success will discover: practical examples of dealing with setbacks and challenges in mathematics, a primer on study skills, including particular advice like how to effectively read mathematical literature and learn mathematically focused programming. Students thinking about life after graduation will find: advice for seeking jobs outside academia, guidance for applying to graduate programs, a collection of interviews with former mathematics majors now working in a wide variety of careers—they share their experience and practical advice for breaking into their field. Packed with a wealth of information, Navigating the Math Major is your comprehensive resource to the undergraduate mathematics degree program.

101 Careers in Mathematics: Fourth Edition

2019-09-24

Author : Deanna Haunsperger
Release : 2019-09-24
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Book Rating : 852/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book 101 Careers in Mathematics: Fourth Edition written by Deanna Haunsperger. This book was released on 2019-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can you do with a degree in math? This book addresses this question with 125 career profiles written by people with degrees and backgrounds in mathematics. With job titles ranging from sports analyst to science writer to inventory specialist to CEO, the volume provides ample evidence that one really can do nearly anything with a degree in mathematics. These professionals share how their mathematical education shaped their career choices and how mathematics, or the skills acquired in a mathematics education, is used in their daily work. The degrees earned by the authors profiled here are a good mix of bachelors, masters, and PhDs. With 114 completely new profiles since the third edition, the careers featured within accurately reflect current trends in the job market. College mathematics faculty, high school teachers, and career counselors will all find this a useful resource. Career centers, mathematics departments, and student lounges should have a copy available for student browsing. In addition to the career profiles, the volume contains essays from career counseling professionals on the topics of job-searching, interviewing, and applying to graduate school.

Mathematics for Human Flourishing

2020-01-07 Mathematics

Author : Francis Su
Release : 2020-01-07
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Rating : 138/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Mathematics for Human Flourishing written by Francis Su. This book was released on 2020-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love. The mathematician Francis Su knows just where to find them."--Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine" This is perhaps the most important mathematics book of our time. Francis Su shows mathematics is an experience of the mind and, most important, of the heart."--James Tanton, Global Math Project For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity's most beautiful ideas. In this profound book, written for a wide audience but especially for those disenchanted by their past experiences, an award-winning mathematician and educator weaves parables, puzzles, and personal reflections to show how mathematics meets basic human desires--such as for play, beauty, freedom, justice, and love--and cultivates virtues essential for human flourishing. These desires and virtues, and the stories told here, reveal how mathematics is intimately tied to being human. Some lessons emerge from those who have struggled, including philosopher Simone Weil, whose own mathematical contributions were overshadowed by her brother's, and Christopher Jackson, who discovered mathematics as an inmate in a federal prison. Christopher's letters to the author appear throughout the book and show how this intellectual pursuit can--and must--be open to all.

How to Think Like a Mathematician

2009-02-12 Mathematics

Author : Kevin Houston
Release : 2009-02-12
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Rating : 056/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book How to Think Like a Mathematician written by Kevin Houston. This book was released on 2009-02-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a head start in your undergraduate degree in mathematics? Maybe you've already started your degree and feel bewildered by the subject you previously loved? Don't panic! This friendly companion will ease your transition to real mathematical thinking. Working through the book you will develop an arsenal of techniques to help you unlock the meaning of definitions, theorems and proofs, solve problems, and write mathematics effectively. All the major methods of proof - direct method, cases, induction, contradiction and contrapositive - are featured. Concrete examples are used throughout, and you'll get plenty of practice on topics common to many courses such as divisors, Euclidean algorithms, modular arithmetic, equivalence relations, and injectivity and surjectivity of functions. The material has been tested by real students over many years so all the essentials are covered. With over 300 exercises to help you test your progress, you'll soon learn how to think like a mathematician.

Linear Algebra, Geodesy, and GPS

1997-01-01 Technology & Engineering

Author : Gilbert Strang
Release : 1997-01-01
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Download or read book Linear Algebra, Geodesy, and GPS written by Gilbert Strang. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses algorithms generally expressed in MATLAB for geodesy and global positioning. Three parts cover basic linear algebra, the application to the (linear and also nonlinear) science of measurement, and the GPS system and its applications. A popular article from SIAM News (June 1997) The Mathematics of GPS is included as an introduction. Annot

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