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Get to grips with the essential topics in maths today through 100 key ideas, each one explained clearly in 100 words.
Maths- 100 Ideas in ...
In our hyper-modern world we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before. Often these statistics can seem contradictory and say wildly ...
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-Only around 100 people have ever lived beyond a million hours (that's about 114 years)
-Around 7% of everyone who has ...
An accessible introduction to algorithms, explaining not just what they are but how they work, with examples from a wide range of application areas
An ...
An authoritative, accessible and revisionist history of maths that reveals the vital contributions of mathematicians from across the world and of all genders
The protagonists ...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly ...
Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics--imagine where we'd be today if Einstein and Newton didn't have the math to back up ...
The modern radio is a wonder, and behind that magic is mathematics. In The Mathematical Radio, Paul Nahin explains how radios work, deploying mathematics and ...
A lush volume filled with the gorgeous illustrations of renowned artist Rafael Araujo, and is the seminal golden ratio keepsake. From the pyramids of Giza ...
For centuries, mathematicians the world over have tried, and failed, to solve the zeta-3 problem. Math genius Leonhard Euler attempted it in the 1700s and ...
'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this ...
An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century.
The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until ...
We all learned that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is called pi and that the value of this algebraic ...
The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermats Last Theorem is the ...
From the number of cells in our bodies to the size of the universe, big numbers have more to do with the 'real world' than ...