The Student's Introduction to Mathematica and the Wolfram Language - Softcover

Torrence, Bruce F.; Torrence, Eve A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110840636X ISBN 13: 9781108406369

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

An introduction to Mathematica® and the Wolfram Language™ in the familiar context of the standard university mathematics curriculum.

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About the Authors

Bruce F. Torrence is the Garnett Professor of Mathematics at Randolph-Macon College, Virginia. In 2014, he received a Wolfram Innovator Award for his use of Mathematica in mathematics education, and in 2008 he received the John Smith Award for distinguished teaching from the Mathematical Association of America. Bruce served as a co-editor of Math Horizons magazine from 2008–2013, and his writings have twice appeared in the Best Writing on Mathematics series, in 2012 and 2014. Trained as an algebraic topologist, he has a longstanding interest in computer algebra systems.

Eve A. Torrence is a Professor of Mathematics at Randolph-Macon College, Virginia. In 2013, she received an Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the highest honor for faculty at colleges and universities in the commonwealth. She has served as the president of Pi Mu Epsilon, the National Mathematics Honor Society, and is a member of the board for the Bridges Organization, which sponsors an international conference on mathematics and the arts. Eve is the author of Cut and Assemble Icosahedra: Twelve Models in White and Color (2011) and enjoys designing mathematical sculpture and incorporating the arts into teaching mathematics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110840636X
• ISBN 13: 9781108406369
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 544