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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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TIMES - BOOK OF THE YEAR
'If you aren't in love with stats before reading this book, you will be by the time you're ...
Artists and scientists view the world in quite different ways. Nevertheless, they are united in a search for hidden order beneath surface appearances. The quest ...
Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think ...
An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable
Heat, like gravity, shapes nearly ...
'The Number Bias combines vivid storytelling with authoritative analysis to deliver a warning about the way numbers can lead us astray - if we let them ...
What is the relationship between the number of films Nicolas Cage appears in and the number of deaths by drowning in swimming pools?
How in ...
If you like any kind of game at all, you'll enjoy the amazing mathematical brainteasers in this entertaining book. No special mathematics training is ...
How do you predict something that has never happened before? There's a useful calculation being employed by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths professors ...
A brilliantly original tour of numbers, and what makes them special. Did you know there are 17 possible types of symmetric wallpaper pattern? Do you ...
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 ...
An inclusive vision of mathematics its beauty, its humanity, and its power to build virtues that help us all flourish For mathematician Francis Su, a ...
Born of the desire to understand the workings of motions of the heavenly bodies, trigonometry gave the ancient Greeks the ability to predict their futures ...
Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were often as extraordinary as their ...
