You might also remember that a vector is a quantity that has magnitude and (this is the key) direction. It sounds simple enough—and yet, as award-winning science writer Robyn Arianrhod shows in this riveting story, the idea of a single symbol expressing more than one thing at once was millennia in the making.

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This book provides a thorough foundation in the powerful ideas that now shape the landscape of algebraic geometry, with an informal yet rigorous exposition that builds intuition for understanding the formidable machinery.

Cara-Julie Kather explores Mathematics as a way of thinking and being in the world. She investigates Mathematics in its conceptual relation to Western understandings of the Rational and the Human, and proposes possibilities of subverting Western Mathematics and of forming different mathematical practices.

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This follow-up to the modern classic, Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions, shows the five practices in action in Grades K-5 classrooms and empowers teachers to be prepared for and overcome the challenges common to orchestrating math discussions.

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This book makes the five practices accessible for high school mathematics teachers. High school mathematics departments and teams can use this book as a framework for engaging professional collaboration.

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This book explains gradient-based stochastic optimization, exploiting the methodologies of stochastic approximation and gradient estimation. Although the approach is theoretical, the book emphasizes developing algorithms that implement the methods.

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This book is intended as a text for a first course on nonlinear control.

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Matrix Factorization for Multimedia Clustering: Models, techniques, optimization and applications will serve as a solid advanced reference for researchers, scientists, engineers and advanced students who wish to implement practical tasks through clustering formulations.

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A stirring account of the mathematicians who went looking for the bedrock philosophical foundations of their field and witnessed a house of cards collapse instead.

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Asymptotics for Fractional Processes develops an approach to the large-sample analysis of fractional partial-sum processes, featuring long memory increments.

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