ISBN: 9783540753018

We start with a fun puzzle in mathematics and mathematical methods. How many corners does a four-dimensional cube have? Does such a thing exist, you ask? You may be a geoscientist or a ph… More...

We start with a fun puzzle in mathematics and mathematical methods. How many corners does a four-dimensional cube have? Does such a thing exist, you ask? You may be a geoscientist or a philosopher. If your answer is: there are surely more than the eight corners there are for a three-dimensional cube, you are an engineer. If you know without hesitation that there are exactly sixteen corners and you can prove why, you are a mathematician. To explain the goal of this book, I refer to Hersh (1997): The United States suffers from “innumeracy” in its general population, “math avoidance” amonghigh-schoolstudents,and50percentfailureamongcollegecalculusstudents.Causes include starvation budgets in the school, mental attrition by television, parents who don’t like math. There’s another, unrecognized cause of failure: misconception of the nature of mathematics. I think the speci c reference to the United States may be omitted. It is really a worldwide problem. Moreover, there is one more consequence of “math avoidance” and “misconception”: good mathematical approaches are sometimes applied inc- rectly. Particularly, the methods of statistics are often misused for different goals. Applying mathematical methods is similar to using nuclear power: the nal results depend on the competence of the user. I try to convince my readers to apply the “energy” of mathematics with consideration. Books > Earth Sciences eBook, Springer Shop<

ISBN: 9783540753018

This fascinating work makes the link between the rarified world of maths and the down-to-earth one inhabited by engineers. It introduces and explains classical and modern mathematical pro… More...

This fascinating work makes the link between the rarified world of maths and the down-to-earth one inhabited by engineers. It introduces and explains classical and modern mathematical procedures as applied to the real problems confronting engineers and geoscientists. Written in a manner that is understandable for students across the breadth of their studies, it lays out the foundations for mastering difficult and sometimes confusing mathematical methods. Arithmetic examples and figures fully support this approach, while all important mathematical techniques are detailed. Derived from the author´s long experience teaching courses in applied mathematics, it is based on the lectures, exercises and lessons she has used in her classes. Mathematical Methods for Engineers and Geoscientists eBook eBooks>Fremdsprachige eBooks>Englische eBooks>Sach- & Fachthemen>Mathematik, Springer Berlin Heidelberg<

ISBN: 9783540753018

Earth Sciences; Earth Sciences, general; Mathematical and Computational Engineering; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics; Analysis; Probabi… More...

Earth Sciences; Earth Sciences, general; Mathematical and Computational Engineering; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics; Analysis; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes MATLAB, Mathematical Modelling, differential equation, mathematical modeling, modeling, spatial analysis, stochastics Books eBook, Springer Nature<

2010, ISBN: 9783540753018

eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), Auflage, [PU: Springer-Verlag], [ED: 1], Springer-Verlag, 2010

2010, ISBN: 9783540753018

[ED: 1], Auflage, eBook Download (PDF), eBooks, [PU: Springer-Verlag]