Books in the Outlooks series

This is a book about a gambling system that works. The author tells the story of how he used computer simulations and mathematical modeling techniques to predict the outcome of jai-alai matches and bet on them successfully - increasing his initial stake by over 500% in one year!

Learn why it is impossible to devise a reasonable voting system in which voters can never gain by submitting a disingenuous ballot. Using minimal prerequisites, in this 2005 book Alan Taylor presents economic, philosophic, and mathematical results from the last quarter of the twentieth century, with many new proofs.

In this topology text, the reader will learn about knot theory, 3-dimensional manifolds, and the topology of embedded graphs, and the role these play in understanding molecular structures. All the relevant background is provided. For advanced undergraduate mathematics students, and researchers in chemistry and biology.

Mathematics has been used for centuries to describe, analyze, and create music. In this book, Leon Harkleroad explores the mathematics related to aspects of music from its acoustical bases to compositional techniques to music criticism. His clear, elementary exposition will be accessible to general readers as well as to mathematicians and musicians of all levels.