50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know (50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series) - Hardcover

Crilly, Tony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848667051 ISBN 13: 9781848667051

Verlag: Quercus Publishing, 2014

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Who invented zero? Why 60 seconds in a minute? How big is infinity? Where do parallel lines meet? And can a butterfly's wings really cause a storm on the far side of the world? In 50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know, Professor Tony Crilly explains in 50 clear and concise essays the mathematical concepts - ancient and modern, theoretical and practical, everyday and esoteric - that allow us to understand and shape the world around us. Packed with diagrams, examples and anecdotes, this book is the perfect overview of this often daunting but always essential subject. For once, mathematics couldn't be simpler. Contents include: Origins of mathematics, from Egyptian fractions to Roman numerals; Pi and primes, Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio; What calculus, statistics and algebra can actually do; The very real uses of imaginary numbers; The Big Ideas of relativity, Chaos theory, Fractals, Genetics and hyperspace; The reasoning behind Sudoku and code cracking, Lotteries and gambling, Money management and compound interest; Solving of Fermat's last theorem and the million-dollar question of the Riemann hypothesis.

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Who invented zero? Why 60 seconds in a minute? How big is infinity? Where do parallel lines meet? And can a butterfly's wings really cause a storm on the far side of the world? In 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know, Professor Tony Crilly explains in 50 clear and concise essays the mathematical concepts - ancient and modern - that allow us to understand and shape the world around us.
From zero and Roman numerals to Fermat's last theorem and the great riddle of the Riemann hypothesis, via pi, primes and infinity, this book tells you the things they didn't at school, including what calculus, statistics and algebra can actually do, and the very real uses of imaginary numbers.
Illuminating the Big Ideas of relativity, chaos theory, fractals, genetics and hyperspace and revealing the unspoken reasoning behind Sudoku and code cracking, lotteries and gambling, money management and compound interest, this book is the prefect overview of this often daunting but always essential subject. For once, mathematics couldn't be simpler.

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• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1848667051
• ISBN 13: 9781848667051
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208