This title deals with the biggest mathematical mystery in nature - Fibonacci numbers! Named after a famous mathematician, the number pattern is simple: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...Each number in the sequence comes from adding the two numbers before it. What's the mystery? The pattern crops up in the most[...]

Many textbooks on differential equations are written to be interesting to the teacher rather than the student. "Introduction to Differential Equations with Dynamical Systems" is directed toward students. This concise and up-to-date textbook addresses the challenges that undergraduate mathematics, en[...]

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Everything in the Universe has emerged, in some sense, since the Big Bang. But the concept of emergence is problematic and controversial. The Metaphysics of Emergence contends that the contemporary philosophical debates are vitiated by the persistence of the traditional assumption that what primaril[...]

Mass media have taken the digital turn: they have made the transition from the analog past into our digital future. Today's communication students need a book that keeps pace with those changes--and with their own experiences as media consumers. While students may be familiar with the latest technol[...]