Quick(er) Calculations: How to add, subtract, multiply, divide, square, and square root more swiftly - Hardcover

Lipscombe, Trevor Davis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198852657 ISBN 13: 9780198852650

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2021

Synopsis

How fast can you calculate? Would you like to be faster? This book presents the time honored tricks and tips of calculation, from a fresh perspective, to boost the speed at which you can add -- whether a couple of numbers, or columns so long an accountant may faint. Find out how to subtract, multiply, divide, and find square roots more quickly.

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About the Author

Trevor Davis Lipscombe, Director, Catholic University of America Press

Trevor Lipscombe graduated with an undergraduate degree in theoretical physics from Queen Mary College, University of London, and then obtained a doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Oxford. He is the author, with Alice Calaprice, of “Albert Einstein: A Biography,” and sole author of “The Physics of Rugby,” which was selected as one of the best ten physics books of 2009. He edited the critical edition of Saint John Henry Newman's novel “Loss and Gain.” Trevor was a postdoctoral researcher at the Levich Institute at the City College of New York, but has also worked in a homeless shelter, a physics journal, and three university presses. He remains fond of finding ways to present science-related materials simply.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198852657
• ISBN 13: 9780198852650
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192