Cool careers without college for people who are really good at science & math

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Tracey Steffora

This series examines how people around the world use common basic maths skills in their jobs. This book looks at maths at the train station, and includes chapters on counting, sorting, measuring, and shapes.

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Mutsumi Saito, Bernd Sturmfels, Nobuki Takayama

In recent years, new algorithms for dealing with rings of differential operators have been discovered and implemented. A main tool is the theory of Gröbner bases, which is reexamined here from the point of view of geometric deformations. Perturbation techniques have a long tradition in analysis; Gröbner deformations of left ideals in the Weyl algebra are the algebraic analogue to classical perturbation techniques. The algorithmic methods introduced in this book are particularly useful for studying the systems of multidimensional hypergeometric partial differentiel equations introduced by Gel'fand, Kapranov and Zelevinsky. The Gröbner deformation of these GKZ hypergeometric systems reduces problems concerning hypergeometric functions to questions about commutative monomial ideals, and thus leads to an unexpected interplay between analysis and combinatorics. This book contains a number of original research results on holonomic systems and hypergeometric functions, and it raises many open problems for future research in this rapidly growing area of computational mathematics '

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Charles B. Myers, C. Barry Knisley

A selection of articles discussing various aspects of the environmental problem including its history, the causes and effects, people's reactions, and outlook for the future.

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Amy Tilmont, Mark Stewart

"This book takes young readers deep into the complicated and often destructive relationship between humans and nature. Man vs. Animal brings into sharp focus issues that include habitat destruction, climate change, land management and introduction of invasive species--while offering actionable solutions for each both now and in the future"--Provided by publisher.