Bøker av Colin Adams

The capacity to express what you want in life with clarity is a prerequisite for emotional well-being. This can be learned and is not a natural talent. You learned from people who were not skilled at communicating their wants, which is why you are not good at doing so.Making it as simple as possible for another person to fulfill your desire by asking for the precise behavior that will do so is the fundamental tenet of conscious communication. People sometimes try to make up for theirfeelings of vulnerability by acting aggressively and threateningly, hoping that this would boost their chances of receiving what they want. This strategy frequently produces the opposite result. A demand suggests that the donor has the right to dictate to others since the recipient is of lower worth than the giver.You won't likely submit to my requests without resistance and resentment, even if you do. You will eventually become unwilling to obey my orders and stop providing for my requirements. All connections, including those with your friends, family, coworkers, kids, and parents, fall under the umbrella of this rule. GRAB A COPY OF THIS BOOK NOW AND HAVE A GOOD READ.

This books provides short, interconnected articles on a variety of active areas in knot theory, and includes beautiful pictures, deep mathematical connections, and critical applications edited and contributed to by top researchers in the field of knot theory. The articles in this book are accessible to both undergrads and researchers.

A novel that uses calculus to help you survive a zombie apocalypseHow can calculus help you survive the zombie apocalypse? Colin Adams, humor columnist for the Mathematical Intelligencer and one of today's most outlandish and entertaining popular math writers, demonstrates how in this zombie adventure novel.Zombies and Calculus is the account of Craig Williams, a math professor at a small liberal arts college in New England, who, in the middle of a calculus class, finds himself suddenly confronted by a late-arriving student whose hunger is not for knowledge. As the zombie virus spreads and civilization crumbles, Williams uses calculus to help his small band of survivors defeat the hordes of the undead. Along the way, readers learn how to avoid being eaten by taking advantage of the fact that zombies always point their tangent vector toward their target, and how to use exponential growth to determine the rate at which the virus is spreading. Williams also covers topics such as logistic growth, gravitational acceleration, predator-prey models, pursuit problems, the physics of combat, and more. With the aid of his story, you too can survive the zombie onslaught.Featuring easy-to-use appendixes that explain the book's mathematics in greater detail, Zombies and Calculus is suitable both for those who have only recently gotten the calculus bug, as well as for those whose disease has advanced to the multivariable stage.

Knots are familiar objects. Yet the mathematical theory of knots quickly leads to deep results in topology and geometry. This work offers an introduction to this theory, starting with our understanding of knots. It presents the applications of knot theory to modern chemistry, biology and physics.