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A Quick History of Math : From Counting Cavemen to Big Data.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gifford, Clive.
- Series:
- Quick Histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (130 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Quick History of Math
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Quarto Publishing Group UK, 2021.
- Summary:
- A Quick History of Maths is 43,000 years of mathematical discoveries packed into one book, plus lots of jokes.
- Contents:
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- THE LEBOMBO BONE
- KEEPING TRACK
- FINGERS AND TOES
- HOME NUMBER
- BABYLONIAN BASES
- COUNT LIKE AN EGYPTIAN
- HUH, THANKS A MILLION!
- FRACTIOUS ABOUT FRACTIONS
- MONUMENTAL MATH
- THOSE GEOMETRIC GREEKS
- THROWING SHAPES
- EASY AS PI
- LIVING BY NUMBERS
- IT'S HIP TO BE SQUARE
- PROVE IT!
- WHO ARE EU... CLID?
- IN A RELATIONSHIP
- PARADOXES
- PRIME TIME
- ERATOSTHENES VS. THE EARTH
- THE NAKED TRUTH
- ROAMING WITH THE ROMANS
- THE ART OF MATHEMATICS
- MAGIC SQUARES
- MAYA MATH
- OH, MAYA DAYS
- BIG FAT ZERO
- NUMBERING UP
- THINKING IRRATIONALLY
- THE HOUSE OF WISDOM
- ALGEBRAAAARGH!
- SPIES AND SYMMETRY
- MATHS HEADS WEST
- FAB FIBONACCI
- EXPONENTIAL POTENTIAL
- JOLLY LOGARITHMS
- PASCAL'S PATTERNS
- WHAT ARE THE CHANCES?
- STAT ATTACK!
- CLEVER CARL AND THE SPREAD OF STATS
- THE CALCULUS WARS
- OI OI, EULER!
- JUST MY IMAGINATION
- GET SET, GO!
- COMPUTERS IN SKIRTS
- BRILLIANT BINARY
- THROUGH THE LOGIC GATE
- MACHINE MATH
- FUNKY THEORIES
- BIG DATA
- FUTURE MATH
- TIMELINE OF MATH DISCOVERIES
- WHEN MATH GOES WRONG...
- MENTAL MATH
- GLOSSARY
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780711263352
- 0711263353
- OCLC:
- 1293250085
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