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Keeping up with all of hockey's cool facts can make your brain freeze. You need to take in long timeframes (the NHL has been around for almost 100 years) and big numbers (Wayne Gretzky scored almost 3,000 points in his career. Key facts and fun details about the game of hockey come alive through infographics. The "data art" provides opportunities for readers to visually take in information about the sport through charts, maps, and illustrations. The...
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Keeping up with football's hard-hitting facts can be as challenging as scoring against a tough defense. You need to take in long distances (the longest field goal in NFL history was 64 yards), huge sizes (the average NFL offensive lineman in 2013 weighed 310 pounds), and incredible details (fans at football games can be loud enough to cause earthquakes). Infographics make essential concepts about football easy to absorb-from how to throw a spiral...
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Keeping up with the fascinating facts about basketball can make your brain feel like it's been dribbled down the court! You hear about great players (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was named NBA MVP six times), powerful dynasties (the Boston Celtics won eight NBA championships in a row), and huge performances (Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single game). Colorful infographics convey key information about basketball-such as diagramming plays, explaining...
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Keeping track of all the fascinating baseball facts and statistics can make your head spin faster than a curveball. You hear about blazing speeds (the average Major League fastball is 92 miles per hour), huge numbers (Barry Bonds hit 762 home runs), and powerful dynasties (the New York Yankees have won the World Series 27 times). Engaging infographics relate facts and key concepts about baseball, from how pitchers throw a curve ball to the crucial...
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"Born in Scotland more than 250 years ago, William Playfair was a dreamer who saw the world differently from other people. Unfortunately, this difference sometimes got in the way of his success. Early on, as he attempted to apply his unique perspective to a series of career opportunities in order to gain riches! fame! glory! he instead suffered one failure after another. Then, while writing a book about economics, Will's innovative vision inspired...
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There are some very special places to be found by the "fractal explorer" who ventures into this strange land.
Like the early explorers who would travel to strange and exotic places and send back reports to the Royal Geographical Society, I have been wandering the complex plane and have gathered some truly amazing images for you to enjoy.
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The second in a series of systematic studies by a celebrated mathematician I. M. Gelfand and colleagues, this volume presents students with a well-illustrated sequence of problems and exercises designed to illuminate the properties of functions and graphs. Since readers do not have the benefit of a blackboard on which a teacher constructs a graph, the authors abandoned the customary use of diagrams in which only the final form of the graph appears;...
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A stimulating view of mathematics that appeals to students as well as teachers, this undergraduate-level text is written in an informal style that does not sacrifice depth or challenge. Based on 20 years of teaching by the leading researcher in graph theory, it offers a solid foundation on the subject. This revised and augmented edition features new exercises, simplifications, and other improvements suggested by classroom users and reviewers. Topics...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015" Arthur Benjamin is professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. Gary Chartrand is professor emeritus of mathematics at Western Michigan University. Ping Zhang is professor of mathematics at Western Michigan University.
The history, formulas, and most famous puzzles of graph theory
Graph theory goes back several centuries and revolves around the study of graphs-mathematical structures showing...
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A number of geometric constructions are impossible to complete with just a ruler and a compass. This book discusses the most famous of these "impossible" constructions. Part I explores ground rules, history, and angle trisection. Part II treats nonconstructible regular polygons and the algebra associated with them.
18) Line Graphs
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This Level 2 guided reader teaches how to interpret and create line graphs. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about creating scales, plotting data points, and using line plots to represent a data set.
19) Pie Graphs
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This Level 2 guided reader teaches how to interpret and create pie graphs. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning how to partition shares, describe parts of a whole, and represent a data set using a pie graph.
20) Tally Charts
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This Level 2 guided reader teaches how to interpret and create tally charts. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about counting, skip-counting by 5s, and representing numbers using tally charts.
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