Pre-Calculus for Dummies® - 1001 Practice Problems by Consumer Dummies Staff; Mary Jane Sterling
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Category: Mathematics
Prepare for calculus the smart way, with customizable pre-calculus practice 1,001 Pre-Calculus Practice Problems For Dummies offers 1,001 opportunities to gain confidence in your math skills. Much more than a workbook, this study aid provides pre-calculus problems ranked from easy to advanced, with deta ...Show more
No.1 Book of Numbers: Exploring the Meaning by Ruth Binney
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Category: Mathematics
Why is 7 such a lucky number and 13 so unlucky? Why does a jury traditionally have '12 good men and true', and why are there 24 hours in the day and 60 seconds in a minute? This fascinating new book explores the world of numbers from pin numbers to book titles, and from the sixfold shape of snowflakes t ...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
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
The Maths of Life and Death by Kit Yates
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Category: Mathematics
Maths is the story of the world around us, and the wisdom it gives us can be the difference between success and disaster. We are all doing maths all the time, from the way we communicate with each other to the way we travel, from how we work to how we relax. Many of us are aware of this. But few of us r ...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
Ten Great Ideas about Chance by Persi Diaconis; Brian Skyrms
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Category: Mathematics
A fascinating account of the breakthrough ideas that transformed probability and statistics In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting the stage for a series of breakthroughs that enab ...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
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
Numb and Number by William Hartston
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Category: Mathematics
'A wise, witty and insightful guide to clear thinking amid a deluge of percentages and probabilities.' Ian StewartLike it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk assessments, inflation figures, weather and climate ...Show more
The Ten Equations That Rule the World - And How You Can Use Them Too by David Sumpter
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Category: Mathematics
They know something you don't know. They work inside investment banks, betting companies and social media giants. What are the secrets held by mathematicians and what can everyone else learn from them? Their advantage can be reduced to a small number of equations. Ten of them. And, surprisingly, it isn' ...Show more