Woo's Wonderful World of Maths by Eddie Woo
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Category: Mathematics
Why is a rainbow curved? Why aren't left-handers extinct? How is a sunflower like a synchronised swimmer? Why is 'e' a magic number?The answer to these questions is contained within one simple word: MATHS. Because maths is all about patterns, and our universe is extraordinarily patterned.With enthusiasm ...Show more
The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller
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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
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa; Timothy Revell
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Category: Mathematics
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths. Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journ ...Show more
The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Maths by Manil Suri
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Category: Mathematics
'Who knew numbers could be so charming? ... Suri takes us on a light-hearted journey all the way from nothing (zero) to infinity' Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the B ...Show more
The Maths Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by .
$42.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics | Series: Big Ideas
Take a journey through the fascinating story of fractions, numbers, patterns, and shapes in order to better understand the complex world we live in. Continuing the "Big Ideas" series' trademark combination of authoritative, clear text and bold graphics to chart the development of maths through history, ...Show more
A Year in Numbers by Kyle D. Evans
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Category: Mathematics
Did you know:-Only around 100 people have ever lived beyond a million hours (that's about 114 years)-Around 7% of everyone who has ever lived is currently alive-The '12 days of Christmas' song, when sung in full, results in 364 gifts being given - one for every day... except ChristmasBroken down into 12 ...Show more
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker
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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
Ruler and Compass: Practical Geometric Constructions by Andrew Sutton
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Category: Mathematics
Sutton guides the reader through the once treasured principles of ruler and compass constructions, used for centuries by architects, carpenters, stonemasons and master craftsmen. Instruction is given on how to draw heptograms, heptakaidecagons, circles inside triangles and many more artistic geometric s ...Show more
Mathematics Ponderables by Tom Jackson
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Category: Mathematics | Series: Ponderables
Legend has it that the first magic square, where all lines and diagonals add up to the same figure, was revealed more than 2,000 years ago when a river turtle appeared to have ancient Chinese numerals inscribed on sections of its shell. Patterns are everywhere in nature, and counting, measuring, and cal ...Show more
Infinite Powers - The Story of Calculus - the Language of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
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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.
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
Finding Fibonacci - The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World by Keith Devlin
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Category: Mathematics
A mathematician's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's story In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci, or the "Book of Calculation," introduced modern arithmetic to the Western world ...Show more