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Author: Alex Bellos Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408809591 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 450
Book Description
The 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 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird and wonderful mathematical phenomena, Alex Bellos travels across the globe and meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany and a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan. Packed with fascinating, eye-opening anecdotes, Alex's Adventures in Numberland is an exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs that will leave you awestruck.
Author: Alex Bellos Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408809591 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 450
Book Description
The 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 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird and wonderful mathematical phenomena, Alex Bellos travels across the globe and meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany and a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan. Packed with fascinating, eye-opening anecdotes, Alex's Adventures in Numberland is an exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs that will leave you awestruck.
Author: Anne Hawkins Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317898095 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
There is growing recognition that statistics should be part of the core curriculum for the compulsory schooling of all children, leading to a now urgent need for teachers to be trained in both statistical content and appropriate teaching methods. This book lays the foundation for teacher's responses to these changes, exploring how best to teach those applied skills which are now seen to be a more relevant part of the content of statistical courses.
Author: Wayne Rawson Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1105681122 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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Johnny Miscevich is an ordinary guy with an ordinary life in an ordinary California town, but when a mysterious woman runs headlong into his life, she pulls him into a world of intrigue, danger, and international conspiracy. Even with the help of all his friends and a beautiful rogue assassin, he will need all his strength, intelligence and will power to make it through the night alive. He will learn, if he survives, that as long as he chooses to do the right thing, he will regret nothing.
Author: Christian Constanda Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1848825390 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 310
Book Description
Imagine algebra class meets The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy... Meet JJ, an unusual character with a unique vantage position from which he can measure and monitor humanity’s progress. Armed with a device that compels all around it to tell the truth, JJ offers a satirical evaluation of our attitudes to numeracy and logic, touching upon several aspects of life on Earth along the way, from the criminal justice system and people’s use of language to highway driving and modern art. A collection of mathematically-flavored stories and jokes, interlaced with puzzles, paradoxes and problems, fuse together in an entertaining, free-flowing narrative that will engage and amuse anyone with an interest in the issues confronting society today. JJ demonstrates how a lack of elementary mathematical knowledge can taint our work and general thinking and reflects upon the importance of what is arguably our most valuable weapon against ignorance: a sound mathematical education.
Author: Satyajit Ray Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 9352141164 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 947
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Nineteen gripping tales of suspense and mystery For readers who enjoyed the adventures of Feluda in Volume 1, this second omnibus volume holds more delights. Accompanied by his cousin Topshe and the bumbling crime writer Lalmohan Ganguly (Jatayu), Feluda travels from Puri to Kedarnath, from Kathmandu to London in his pursuit of culprits; he tracks down Napoleon’s last letter, a forgotten painting by Tintoretto and a stolen manuscript.
Author: D. A. Suffolk Publisher: Anastasi Ltd ISBN: 0955307724 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 242
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A BOUNDARY STONE AND SOME BOUNDERS. As they prepare for Christmas the Court and Randell Twins make new friends: Erin Thomas, a local White Witch and her familiar, Rosie a white rabbit. Also Harry and Bess Game, the owners of Bidford Farm, and their two small children, Jill and Brian. As well as Geofrey Neeley, a local village boy. They also come across an old boundary stone which Bidcote's Village post-master wants to sell to start raising money to improve the almost non-existent village recreational facilties. However this involves some shady dealings with a large insurance company. Once the children and their many friends be-come aware of this they are determined to thwart such a sale and save the stone, which is of importance for the whole fabric of the local countryside and its original owner. None other than Sir Brian de Tournai, the Court's 'House Guest'!
Author: Suzanne Coffey Mielke Publisher: LifeRich Publishing ISBN: 148972950X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 99
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For ages 9-12 and adults will enjoy it too. Have you ever noticed that ink pens end up having no specific owner? There are people who try to hold on to a certain ink pen, but eventually their efforts fail. The people lend the pens to someone or lose them, and others pick the pens up. Pens circulate through life as though they are the property of the universe, passing from one person to another. Have you ever thought about the travels of an ink pen, or should I say, the life of an ink pen? This origin story begins the series of a brave pen, Vick Bick, and follows him on his grand adventures! After you read this, you will never look at an ink pen in the same way.
Author: Keith Houston Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393882152 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 283
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The hidden history of the pocket calculator—a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon—and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life. Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean, and accompanied us to the moon. The pocket calculator changed our world, until it was supplanted by more modern devices that, in a cruel twist of irony, it helped to create. The calculator is dead; long live the calculator. In this witty mathematic and social history, Keith Houston transports readers from the nascent economies of the ancient world to World War II, where a Jewish engineer calculated for his life at Buchenwald, and into the technological arms race that led to the first affordable electronic pocket calculators. At every turn, Houston is a scholarly, affable guide to this global history of invention. Empire of the Sum will appeal to math lovers, history buffs, and anyone seeking to understand our trajectory to the computer age.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 148
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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
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