The Maths Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$39.99 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
The Secret Lives of Numbers by Kate Kitagawa; Timothy Revell
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Category: Mathematics
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers is 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 be ...Show more
The Universe Speaks in Numbers - How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets by Graham Farmelo
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Category: Mathematics
One of the great mysteries of science is that underneath all the complexities of the universe is an underlying harmonious order, whose existence Einstein described as 'a miracle'. No less miraculous, the fundamental laws of the universe can be written in the language of advanced mathematics. Searching f ...Show more
Woo's Wonderful World of Maths by Eddie Woo
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$34.99 (74% off)
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
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
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$19.99 (74% off)
Category: Mathematics
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Christian Church used it to fend off heretics. Today it's a timebomb ticking in the heart of astrophysics. This is a concise tour of a universe of ideas bound up in the simple notion of nothing.