A Quick History of Maths
From Counting Cavemen to Big Data
Seiten
2020
Wide Eyed Editions (Verlag)
978-0-7112-4901-1 (ISBN)
Wide Eyed Editions (Verlag)
978-0-7112-4901-1 (ISBN)
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A Quick History of Maths is 43,000 years of mathematical discoveries packed into one book, plus lots of jokes.
Maths + history + jokes - boring bits = A Quick History of Maths.
This book begins around 43,000 years ago with a notched baboon leg, the Lebombo bone (the very first mathematical object in the world) and rushes us past Hindu numerals and the invention of zero, via Pythagoras, Pascal and probability, right up to the present day, with big dataand the maths that rules our digital lives. Geometri-cool!
You will discover:
How to count on your fingers (there are more ways than you might think!)
Why we have 60 seconds in a minute (hint: it’s to do with the ancient Babylonians)
How to count like an Egyptian (using hieroglyphs)
Why it’s hip to be square using square numbers
A Pythagorean party trick
The naked truth of Archimedes’ bath time mathematics
How to do matha-magic with magic squares
…and much more.
In chronological order from pre-history to present day, this is the story of maths itself. It’s 43,000 years of human mathematical endeavor squeezed into one book for your reading pleasure.
Illustrated with funny cartoons and packed with fascinating facts, you’ll be laughing and learning how to be a better mathematician at the same time!
Maths + history + jokes - boring bits = A Quick History of Maths.
This book begins around 43,000 years ago with a notched baboon leg, the Lebombo bone (the very first mathematical object in the world) and rushes us past Hindu numerals and the invention of zero, via Pythagoras, Pascal and probability, right up to the present day, with big dataand the maths that rules our digital lives. Geometri-cool!
You will discover:
How to count on your fingers (there are more ways than you might think!)
Why we have 60 seconds in a minute (hint: it’s to do with the ancient Babylonians)
How to count like an Egyptian (using hieroglyphs)
Why it’s hip to be square using square numbers
A Pythagorean party trick
The naked truth of Archimedes’ bath time mathematics
How to do matha-magic with magic squares
…and much more.
In chronological order from pre-history to present day, this is the story of maths itself. It’s 43,000 years of human mathematical endeavor squeezed into one book for your reading pleasure.
Illustrated with funny cartoons and packed with fascinating facts, you’ll be laughing and learning how to be a better mathematician at the same time!
Clive Gifford has travelled to more than 70 countries, climbed rocket launch towers, ridden on robots and flown gliders. He's had more than 200 books published and received nominations for or won Royal Society, School Library Association, Smithsonian and TES awards. He won the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Book with Facts 2019 for his title The Colours of History (QED). Clive lives in Manchester, UK. Michael Young is an illustrator and animator from Perth, Western Australia.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.04.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Quick Histories |
| Illustrationen | Michael Young |
| Zusatzinfo | color illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 171 x 224 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Geschichte / Politik |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7112-4901-6 / 0711249016 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7112-4901-1 / 9780711249011 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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