The Tangram Puzzle Book by David Goodman
$43.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
THE TANGRAM is one of the oldest types of dissection puzzles in the world that originated from China. It traditionally requires the participant to arrange seven pieces (or "tans") into a shape just by looking at the given silhouette. LEARN WHILE PLAYING The puzzles in this unique book are fresh, innova ...Show more
Adam Spencer's Top 100 by Adam Spencer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
Australia's funniest mathematician returns in 2018 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), and ...Show more
Math Through the Ages - A Gentle History for Teachers and Others by William P. Berlinghoff; Fernando Q. Gouvea
$27.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics | Series: Dover Books on Mathematics Ser.
"This is a beautiful, important book, a pleasure to read, in which the history recounted truly illuminates the mathematical ideas, and the ideas themselves are superbly explained; a wonderful accomplishment." -- Barry Mazur, Harvard University"Math Through the Ages is a treasure, one of the best history ...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.
How I Wish I'd Taught Maths by Craig Barton
$44.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
'I genuinely believe I have never taught mathematics better, and my students have never learned more. I just wish I had known all of this twelve years ago...' When you speak to the likes of Dylan Wiliam, Doug Lemov, Daisy Christodoulou, Kris Boulton and the Bjorks, you are bound to learn a thing or two ...Show more
Mensa's Most Difficult Geometric Puzzles: Tricky Puzzles to Challenge Every Angle by Graham Jones; Mensa (Contribution by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics | Series: Mensa Ser.
Mensa's Most Difficult Geometric Puzzlesprovides an exceptional challenge for even the most adept of puzzlers. The high IQ society's most ingenious puzzle setters have created a series of conundrums to stretch your spatial awareness and mathematical dexterity. With puzzles ranging from area mazes to tri ...Show more
Weirdest Maths by David Darling Agnijo Banerjee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
Maths is everywhere, in everything. It's in the finest margins of modern sport. It's in the electrical pulses of our hearts and the flight of every bird. It is our key to secret messages, lost languages and perhaps even the shape of the universe of itself. David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee reveal the ma ...Show more
Mensa's Most Difficult Pattern Puzzles - Unleash Your Creative Problem-Solving to Crack These Demanding Conundrums by Mensa Mensa Ltd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
This book consists of 200 difficult puzzles of a variety of different types focussing on pattern puzzles of all types. Questions include mathematical and alphabetical ciphers, as well as shape and geometric patterns. Puzzle artworks and full-colour illustrations are included throughout.
Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind by Kyle D. Evans
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
A gifty maths book about viral maths problems that have gone wild on social media in recent years.
How to Fall Slower Than Gravity: And Other Everyday (and Not So Everyday) Uses of Mathematics and Physical Reasoning by Paul J. Nahin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
An engaging collection of intriguing problems that shows you how to think like a mathematical physicist Paul Nahin is a master at explaining odd phenomena through straightforward mathematics. In this collection of twenty-six intriguing problems, he explores how mathematical physicists think. Always ...Show more
Proof! - How the World Became Geometrical by Amir Alexander
$15.00 AUD
Category: Mathematics
An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our world On a cloudy day in 1413, a balding young man stood at the entrance to the Cathedral of Florence, facing the ancient Baptistery across the piazza. As puzzled passers-by looked on, he raised a small painting to his fac ...Show more
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity by Antonio Padilla
$35.00 AUD
Category: Mathematics
A dazzling exploration of the strange and extreme numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality. For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths - via ever more mind-boggling numbers - led to strange ...Show more