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Product Description: Leonardo of Pisa—better known today as Fibonacci—was the first Westerner to recognize the power of the Hindu-Arabic number system (featuring the numerals 0 through 9), which offered a much simpler method of calculation than the finger reckoning and cumbersome Roman numerals used at the time...read more
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9780802779083 | Walker & Co, July 3, 2012, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Leonardo of Pisa—better known today as Fibonacci—was the first Westerner to recognize the power of the Hindu-Arabic number system (featuring the numerals 0 through 9), which offered a much simpler method of calculation than the finger reckoning and cumbersome Roman numerals used at the time.

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By Keith Devlin (foreword by), Elizabeth S. Sklar (editor) and Jessica K. Sklar (editor)
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9780786449781 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, February 29, 2012, cover price $45.00

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Product Description: Stanford mathematician and NPR Math Guy Keith Devlin explains why, fun aside, video games are the ideal medium to teach middle-school math. Aimed primarily at teachers and education researchers, but also of interest to game developers who want to produce videogames for mathematics education, Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for Learning describes exactly what is involved in designing and producing successful math educational videogames that foster the innovative mathematical thinking skills necessary for success in a global economy...read more
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9781568814315 | A K Peters Ltd, February 25, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Stanford mathematician and NPR Math Guy Keith Devlin explains why, fun aside, video games are the ideal medium to teach middle-school math.

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Product Description: Keith Devlin and Jonathan Borwein, two well-known mathematicians with expertise in different mathematical specialties but with a common interest in experimentation in mathematics, have joined forces to create this introduction to experimental mathematics...read more
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9781568813431 | A K Peters Ltd, December 30, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Keith Devlin and Jonathan Borwein, two well-known mathematicians with expertise in different mathematical specialties but with a common interest in experimentation in mathematics, have joined forces to create this introduction to experimental mathematics.

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9788495601308 | Robinbook, September 12, 2007, cover price $36.00

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A companion volume to the hit CBS television series Numb3rs explains the real-life mathematical techniques used by law enforcement agencies to help catch and convict criminals and presenting compelling real-life cases to demonstrate how advanced mathematics is used in state-of-the-art criminal investigations. Original. (A CBS television series, starring Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch, Alimi Ballard, Peter MacNicol, Diane Farr, & Dylan Bruno) (True Crime)
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9780452288577 | Plume, August 28, 2007, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Using plots and scenarios used in the television show 'Numb3rs,' shows how mathematics can be and is used to solve crimes, describing the techniques used and providing real-life examples of this crime-solving tool.

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