Historia de la matemática

John Allen Paulos sintió a finales de los años noventa, en pleno auge de las empresas «punto com», la irresistible atracción del mundo de la Bolsa. Invirtió dinero, especuló con acciones, se arriesgó cada vez más y... ¡perdió!, tal vez al igual que muchos de sus lectores. En este libro, repleto de inolvidables y divertidísimas anécdotas, pero también de iluminadoras explicaciones sobre el cálculo de probabilidades, la estadística aplicada o las variadísimas fomas en que nuestro dinero puede multiplicarse... y también esfumarse, Paulos desentraña para todos nosotros una...

The principal objective of the author when writing this book is to offer a book that the students will enjoy to read, at the same time learning concepts of algebra, for which brief sentences, clear explanations and lots of examples full of details are used. Various changes are included in this sixth edition: the topic of addition and subtraction of fractions has been improved, the introduction of solving equations with fractions, and they have added new examples and exercises.

A text introductorio, absolutely unpublished, that explains to chemistries, and also to geologists and biologos, like can suitably select the statistical techniques that allow them to obtain the Maxima excellent information from the data of the investigations.

The solution for the problems presented in this book are solved with algebra, analytic geometry, differential and integral calculus geometry, MATLAB and vector analysis.