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From bestselling author Chip Heath, a lively, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to understanding cold, clinical data and harnessing it to tell a persuasive story.
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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 ...
Adam Spencer's Maths 101 is the reassuring maths book companion for parents and their children tackling primary school level maths. If you've ever ...
From the infamous 'Hannah's sweets' exam question to percentages 'life-hacks', viral mathsproblems seem to capture the public's imagination without fail. This is often ...
What's the Use? asks why there is such a vast gulf between public perceptions of mathematics and reality. It shows how mathematics is vital ...
Sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles in a story-driven, illustrated volume that invites readers to peek over the edge of the unknown.
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Exploring more than seventy-five well-known paradoxes in mathematics, philosophy, physics, and the social sciences showing how reason and logic can dispel the illusion of contradiction ...
What are numbers? Where do they come from? Are there different kings of number? Why was Pythagoras fascinated by triangular and square numbers? Is there ...
A photographic exploration of mathematicians' chalkboards
"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns," wrote the British mathematician G. H. Hardy ...
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?
The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules ...
Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civilisation, as he explains why maths is fundamental to our ...
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 ...
It is not an overstatement to say that numbers dictate the way we live our lives. They tell us how we're doing at school ...
A mathematical journey through the most fascinating problems of extremes and how to solve them. What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet ...
'A superbly written, riveting book.' - Martin Rees
Searching for the fundamental laws of the universe, physicists have found themselves developing ambitious mathematical ideas. But without ...
