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Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world.
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By Parker, Matt
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What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? How do billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? How does a building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what ha...ppens when maths goes wrong in the real world. As Matt Parker shows us, our modern lives are built on maths: computer programmes, finance, engineering. And most of the time this maths works quietly behind the scenes, until ... it doesn't. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near-misses and mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman empire and a hapless Olympic shooting team, Matt Parker shows us the bizarre ways maths trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. This book shows how, by making maths our friend, we can learn from its pitfalls. It also contains puzzles, challenges, geometric socks, jokes about binary code and three deliberate mistakes. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.
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By Orlin, Ben
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Smart, hilarious, and engaging, MATH WITH BAD DRAWINGS is a delightful re-education in math that empowers readers with a joyful appreciation and powerful understanding of how math works in our daily lives.
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In this Very Short Introduction, Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant past to the present day, using illustrative case studies drawn from a range of times and places; including early imperial China, the ...medieval Islamic world, and nineteenth-century Britain.
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Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing committed suicide and one of Britai...n's greatest scientific minds was lost. This edition tells his story.
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The innovative, dramatic graphic novel based on the life of the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell.
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Written for the one or two-semester math history course, this text provides historical context to the mathematics that undergrad math and math education majors encounter every day. The author illuminates the people, stories, and social context behind mathematics' greatest histori...cal advances.
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A new biography of Thomas Harriot, the greatest unknown scientific mind of the Renaissance
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This is the first full English translation, with a critical introduction and a comprehensive commentary, of the Dissertation on Combinatorial Art (1666), in which Leibniz introduces some of his most important ideas in philosophy, logic, and mathematics.
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A student in class asks the math teacher: Shouldn't minus times minus make minus? Teachers soon convince most students that it does not. Yet the innocent question brings with it a germ of mathematical creativity. What happens if we encourage that thought, odd and ungrounded thoug...h it may seem? Few books in the field of mathematics encourage such
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