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Published by Quercus, 2007
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- Title
- 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know (50 ideas)
- Author
- Crilly, Tony
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Includes dust jacket.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1847241476
- ISBN 13
- 9781847241474
- Series
- Book 3 of 34: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know
Beginning with zero itself and concluding with the last great unsolved problem, this book introduces the origins of mathematics from Egyptian fractions to Roman numerals; explains the near mystical significance of pi and primes, Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio; tells you the things they didnt at school ? what calculus, statistics and algebra can actually do, and the very real uses of imaginary numbers; illuminates the big ideas of relativity, chaos theory, fractals, genetics and hyperspace; reveals the unspoken reasoning behind Sudoku and code cracking, lotteries and gambling, money management and compound interest; and explores the latest mind shattering developments, including the solving of Fermats last theorem and the million dollar question of the Riemann hypothesis.
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About the Author
Tony Crilly is Reader in Mathematical Sciences at Middlesex University, having previously taught at the University of Michigan, the City University in Hong Kong, and the Open University. His principal research interest is the history of mathematics, and he has written and edited many works on fractals, chaos and computing. He is the author of the acclaimed biography of the English mathematician Arthur Cayley.
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