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What is the arithmetic triangle? What is the purpose of the summation symbol? How did the architects of the 17th century calculate their structures? These and many other questions about Mathematics will be solved in this enjoyable and revealing book.

This book presents conventions, mathematical concepts, definitions and applications central to the geometric modeling of solids, shells and wires (engineering jargon) embedded in 3D space. Currently, software is available for geometric modeling of technical or natural scenarios. However, the models built frequently fail in supporting the subsequent engineering computing and simulations. Only after repeated iterations and re-design, the models permit engineering / science simulations. This book endows the reader with the basic mathematical concepts needed to ensure that the geometric models...

This book presents plane geometry following Hilbert's axiomatic system. It is inspired on R. Hartshome's fantastic book Geometry: Euclid and Beyond, and can be considered as a careful exposition of most of chapter II of that book. It must be remarked that non-euclidean geometries, i.e. geometries not satisfying the fifth postulate of Euclid, enter the scene, in a natural way, from the very beginning. The vast majority of plane geometry texts are only concerned with euclidean geometry, loosing the oportunity of not only teaching rigorous reasoning to freshmen, but at the same time exposing...

La tercera edición del libro Calculus de M. Spivak (correspondiente a la traducción de la cuarta edición original) viene a actualizar uno de los libros de cálculo más prestigiosos e influyentes publicados durante las últimas décadas. En esta edición, el autor mantiene intacto el principal objetivo del libro, que no es otro que presentar el cálculo como la evolución de una idea que ayude a desarrollar la intuición del estudiante para la comprensión de los conceptos del análisis y convencerle de que la precisión y el rigor representan la manera natural de formular y pensar sobre...