books by Amir Aczel     books:     Amir Aczel      The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity Amir D. Aczel Washington Square Press, 2001 early maths theory Very interesting history of the development of mathematical ideas,especially the existence of irrational numbers,and the idea infinity can be approached and used but never reached.....             Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Just About Everything Else Amir D. Aczel Basic Books, 2005 Fun light reading on probability Amir Aczel's "Chance" is a delightful discovery. Light reading, but an accurate and fun exposition of probability in everyday life. I was skeptical at first, because this is such a compressed volume, but Aczel pulls it off and covers the high points of probability well ...             Entanglement Amir Aczel Plume, 2003 Acxel gives a revelatory account of a quantum phenomenon that is responsible for building the entire large scale universe Aczel gives a fascinating account of the discovery of how two or more quantum particles may be intimately connected over enormous distances. This nonlocal nature of the quantum world proves the validity of quantum theory and demonstrates how the cohesivenes and ...             God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe Amir D. Aczel Delta, 2000 Whoa! This book will knock you on your can! God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity and the Expanding Universe by Amir D. Aczel Aczel is an author with powerful credentials, as the author of "Fermat's Last Theorem." That book was over my head mathematically. "God's Equation" is a riveting read. The author ...             The Jesuit and the Skull Amir Aczel Riverhead Trade, 2008 Informative and thought provoking I bought this book for my husband after we heard an interview with the author on NPR. He (my husband) loved it. Well written, intelligent.             How to Beat the I.R.S. at Its Own Game: Strategies to Avoid--And Fight--An Audit Amir D. Aczel Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995 Valuable rules for avoiding an IRS audit Amir Aczel is a professor of statistics whom the IRS treated badly during an unnecessary and unjustified audit. For example, the IRS auditor repeatedly telephoned Aczel at his home before dawn, depriving Aczel, his wife and small baby of sleep. Wanting to avoid such a ...             Complete Business Statistics with Student CD (The Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series) Amir Aczel, Jayavel Sounderpandian McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2008 One of the best Business Statistics books in the market This is probably one of the best business (read: practitioner oriented) statistics books in the market. While covering a broad range of topics taking the reader from (introductory) descriptive statistics to (rather advanced) inferential statistics (hypothesis testing, ...             The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World Amir D. Aczel Harvest Books, 2002 Fascinating Tale of Discovery & Use of the Compass The "Riddle" is well researched and written in a down to earth, flowing, enjoyable, fascinating and educational journey of discovery. Good illustrations help clarify text descriptions. To emphasize the *importance of the compass to navigation*, there is a quote from an ...             Descartes's Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe Amir D. Aczel Broadway, 2006 Spavined Writing ,Sloppy Reasoning, Yet A Potentially Interesting Story (from Ahadada books) The very fact that the German polymath Leibniz sat down to transcribe pages of a "secret notebook" written by Rene Descartes could send chills up the spine of any fan of these superstars of the Enlightenment, and indeed that is exactly what happened to me. I was so ...             Complete Business Statistics W/ Student CD and PowerWeb Amir D Aczel, Jayavel Sounderpandian, ... McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2002 Comprehensive and clear This edition maintains the quality for which this book is known. It is clear and well organized. It is long, but as the saying goes, "Short writing makes for long reading." The length of the book enables a comprehensive coverage of the topics, the clarity of the ...             Probability 1 Amir D. Aczel Harvest Books, 2000 Not a cosmological textbook, but a very entertaining read. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. While its title may be a bit misleading (in that the vast majority of the book is not about proving the existence of ETIs, but of describing some very interesting nuggets of cosmological science). If you are looking for a ...             Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem Amir D. Aczel Basic Books, 2007 An Introductory Book While I did enjoy this book, I believe that it only serves as an introductory preface to the theorem. It does present all of the main ideas, but it fails to provide a network with which to tie them all together. When used with another book, such as Fermats Enigma by ...             The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed Amir D. Aczel Basic Books, 2006 At least one other criticism false I am writing this review, simply because I am a great fan of Aczel's other books -- fermat's last theory, entanglement, and his book on the discovery of the compass, and for another reason. Firstly, All of these were excellent!! Secondly, The criticism leveled ...             Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics Amir D. Aczel Basic Books, 2002 So Easy to Understand it should be a Gradeschool text This book makes the understanding of the greatest ideas in science as expressed mathematically that it should be taught to gradeschoolers. It gives anyone who has ever breezed over the commutative property of addition/multiplication in math as simply fundamental, and ...             The Math Behind Wall Street: How the Market Works and How to Make It Work for You Nicholas Teebagy Basic Books, 2000 The Best Introduction I am currently on a Financial Markets course that is at Masters Level. I bought this book because of its small size and the basic details it covers. I have many other bigger books that go into more detail about stock pricing. However, this book really does explain ...          products you might be interested in search for books entanglement, mathematical, mathematician, mathematics, mcgraw-hill, probability      toavi.com    web we recommend early maths theory randomly chosen apparel: SHAWL - PASHMINA (LARGE) from Cashmere Pashmina Group- in 56 vibrant colors