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New in Penguin paperback, Making Numbers Count offers quick, simple and practical hacks to understand and communicate numbers at all scales, from bestselling author Chip ...
Push Scratch programming to the limits as you explore primes, Fibonacci numbers, Pascal's triangle, and other mathematical curiosities through hands-on coding projects.
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A hilarious and bestselling reintroduction to mathematics, illustrating the ideas with stories, humor, and stick figures.
In Math with Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals what ...
An authoritative, accessible and revisionist history of maths that reveals the vital contributions of mathematicians from across the world and of all genders
The protagonists ...
How the concept of proof has enabled the creation of mathematical knowledge.
The Story of Proof investigates the evolution of the concept of proof - one ...
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An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and ...
Bestselling author and worst-drawing artist Ben Orlin expands his oeuvre with this interactive collection of mathematical games. With 70-plus games, each taking a minute to ...
Number theory is the branch of mathematics that is primarily concerned with the counting numbers. Of particular importance are the prime numbers, the 'building blocks ...
Instant Mathematics pulls together all the pivotal mathematical theories and discoveries into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you ...
A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives.
In this dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive ...
"I'm drowning." "I can't do this." "I did great in high school. Why am I failing at college?"
There are certain habits which ...
Which famous proof did Archimedes inscribe on his tombstone? How and why do knots make perfect pentagons? Have you ever seen a proof so completely ...
What is a mathematical function? Why are they so important? How does plotting the graph of a function help us understand it? And where do ...
What sort of things happen when space crystallises? Why were primordial sages fascinated with five simple forms? Does the three-dimensional jigsaw fit simply together? If ...