The Oxford Handbooks have been an extremely valuable adjunct to the education of physicians in mu tiple areas of medicine in the United Kingdom and in many other countries, principally those with inkages to the educational processes of medicine in the United Kingdom. These books have been less used in the United States, although they have...

This textbook features applications including a proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, space filling curves, and the theory of irrational numbers. In addition to the standard results of advanced calculus, the book contains several interesting applications of these results. The text is intended to form a bridge between calculus and...

From prehistoric times, mankind has looked up at the night sky, and puzzled at the changing positions of the stars. How far away they are is a question that has confounded scientists for centuries. Over the last few hundred years, many scientific careers – and considerable resources – have been devoted to measuring their positions...