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Adam Spencer's Numberland by Adam Spencer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
Australia's funniest mathematician returns in 2019 with more rollicking romps through the world of science, technology, numbers and all things nerdy. This terrific new fully illustrated title follows on from Adam's bestselling Big Book of Numbers (2014); World of Numbers (2015), Time Machine (2016), The ...Show more
Numb and Number by William Hartston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
'A wise, witty and insightful guide to clear thinking amid a deluge of percentages and probabilities.' Ian Stewart Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk assessments, inflation figures, weather and climat ...Show more
Curious: Life Hacks Through Maths by Lily Serna
$29.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
Find love. Win at games and sport. Look smart. Save time.Lily Serna, a curious mathematician, believes passionately that 'mathematics is our golden key to unlocking the secrets of the universe'. She is on a quest to share her own sense of wonder about maths, and to leave all of us - even the maths phobi ...Show more
Our Mathematical Universe My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
In Our Mathematical Universe, Max Tegmark, one of the most original physicists at work today, leads us on an astonishing journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discover the nature of realityPart-history of the cosmos, part-intellectual adventure, Our Mathematical Universe travels ...Show more
An Equation for Every Occasion - Simple Formulas for Surviving the Unexpected by Chris Waring
$29.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
Whether you paid much attention to the mathematics you were taught at school or not, the inescapable truth is that one day, an equation could just save your life.The real world is full of equations and a lot of our everyday decisions are calculated - we just don't always realize it. And that's ok - you ...Show more
Do Dice Play God? - The Mathematics of Uncertainty by Ian Stewart
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
Professor Ian Stewart explores the development and limits of the mathematics that tame uncertainty.
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
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 happens when maths goes wr ...Show more
The Book of Tangrams - 700 Puzzles by Sam Loyd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
The challenge of the tangram, the original "Chinese puzzle," lies in your ability to arrange seven geometrical pieces - a square, a rhomboid, and five triangles - into a variety of different shapes. Collected by Sam Loyd, America's great puzzle expert, these 700 endlessly absorbing tangrams offer hours ...Show more
The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens education, medicine, business, government--and the quality of our lives Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the reward ...Show more
Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - the Language of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
$29.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost popularisers of mathematics, the author of The Joy of X.
Mensa Brain Games Pack - Mind-Bending Games and Puzzles to Challenge Yourself by Mensa Mensa Ltd
$49.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
Designed by some of Mensa's most cunning minds, this is a brain-training interactive puzzle pack crammed full of games and conundrums of many varieties, certain to challenge your linguistic and numerical abilities. The Mensa Brain Games Packcontains a range of different activities, including eight separ ...Show more
Tales of Impossibility - The 2,000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity by David S. Richeson
$54.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematics Tales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned problems of antiquity, four of the most famous and studied questions in the history of mathematics. First posed by the ancient Greeks, these compass and straighte ...Show more