Curious: Life hacks through maths by Lily Serna
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Category: Mathematics
Find love. Win at games and sport. Look smart. Save time.Lily Serna, a curious mathematician, believes passionately that 'mathematics is our golden key to unlocking the secrets of the universe'. She is on a quest to share her own sense of wonder about maths, and to leave all of us - even the maths phobi ...Show more
Area Maze Puzzles: 80 Tricky Mathematical Puzzles to Test Your Logical Brainpower by Graham Jones
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Category: Mathematics
Area Mazes are the new puzzle craze created by the world-renowned Japanese puzzle expert Naoki Inaba. The easy-seeming questions require you to traverse a series of rectangles to find the missing length or area, but don't be fooled - while the logic is simple, finding the answer can be far more challeng ...Show more
Tales of Impossibility - The 2,000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity by David S. Richeson
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Category: Mathematics
A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematics Tales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned problems of antiquity, four of the most famous and studied questions in the history of mathematics. First posed by the ancient Greeks, these compass and straighte ...Show more
The Story of Mathematics in 24 Equations by Dana Mackenzie
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Category: Mathematics
The progress of humanity has often rested on proof, a law or a simple equation . It is literally a language without words, yet one that crosses cultures and spans centuries. Equations are the lifeblood of modern science and mathematics. Yet outside the realm s of science and mathematics the rest of the ...Show more
Quadrivium - The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology by Miranda Lundy
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Category: Mathematics | Series: Wooden Books
The quadrivium--the classical curriculum--comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. Geometry is number in space; music is number in time; and comology expresses number in space ...Show more
Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
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Category: Mathematics
A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost mathematicians.Praise for Infinite Powers:Simple, lucid, amusing, informative, and a pleasure to read. If you want to know where calculus came from, how it works, what it's good for, and where it's going next, ...Show more
Mensa Riddles & Conundrums Pack: Games and Puzzles to Sharpen Your Skills by Robert Allen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
The Mensa Riddles and Conundrums Pack explores some of the most fascinating areas of puzzling pleasure. As well as some really challenging lateral-thinking puzzles and brain-befuddling riddles, it contains a variety of ingenious games designed to challenge the most demanding mind. There are lateral-thi ...Show more
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Parker Matt
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Category: Mathematics
'The surprise bestseller that makes maths fun' Sunday Times Magazine 'Wonderful ... superb' Daily Mail What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've ...Show more
On Quaternions and Octonions by John H. Conway; Derek A. Smith
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Category: Mathematics
This book investigates the geometry of quaternion and octonion algebras. Following a comprehensive historical introduction, the book illuminates the special properties of 3- and 4-dimensional Euclidean spaces using quaternions, leading to enumerations of the corresponding finite groups of symmetries. Th ...Show more
Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mathematical by Johnny Ball
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Category: Mathematics
An all-encompassing history of mathematics from beloved TV presenter Johnny Ball.By introducing us to the major characters and leading us through many historical twists and turns, Johnny slowly unravels the tale of how humanity built up a knowledge and understanding of shapes, numbers and patterns from ...Show more
Alex's Adventures in Numberland - Tenth Anniversary Edition by Alex Bellos
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Category: Mathematics
The tenth anniversary edition of the Sunday Times bestselling bookThe world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives- from the surprising geometry of the ...Show more
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Ian Stewart
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Category: Mathematics
A bestselling author tries to rehabilitate a much-maligned field.