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Cracking Mathematics Colin Beveridge

Cracking Mathematics By Colin Beveridge

Cracking Mathematics by Colin Beveridge


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The definitive guide to the world of mathematics.

Cracking Mathematics Summary

Cracking Mathematics: You, this book and 4,000 years of theories by Colin Beveridge

This comprehensive guide covers the history and development of mathematics, from the Ancient Egyptians and Pythagoreans to key figures such as Galileo, Dodgson, Babbage and Lovelace through to contemporary work of the 21st century. It tells of the remarkable stories that have shaped mathematics and also features sections on how maths can be used to solve the mysteries of the universe, what the Prisoner's Dilemma is as well as Fermat's Last Theorem amongst many more.

Accessible, well-informed and fully-illustrated, this is a book that shows perfectly just how varied and fascinating mathematics is as a subject.

About Colin Beveridge

Colin Beveridge can't understand why maths isn't the most popular subject on the planet, and spends his life trying to make it so. After a PhD from St Andrews, he worked on NASA's Living With A Star program before returning to the UK in 2008. When he's not writing, teaching, or speaking about maths, he's looking after his young sons or running on south Dorset's excellent cycle path network.

Table of Contents

  • 1: The deadly triangle and how maths developed
  • 2: The Renaissance, the negative and the imaginary
  • 3: Ancient regime
  • 4: The shoulders of giants
  • 5: The infinitesimal
  • 6: The French Revolution
  • 7: Powers and logarithms
  • 8: The curious maths of Alice in Wonderland
  • 9: The infinite, the undecidable and the computer
  • 10: How we write it
  • 11: The Scottish cafe
  • 12: Playing games
  • 13: Cracking codes
  • 14: A taste of the 20th century
  • 15: The Taming of the messy
  • 16: Modern Heroes

Additional information

GOR011127821
9781844038626
1844038629
Cracking Mathematics: You, this book and 4,000 years of theories by Colin Beveridge
Used - Like New
Hardback
Octopus Publishing Group
2016-08-11
400
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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