We've Got Your Number - Couverture rigide

Patel, Mukul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 075343640X ISBN 13 : 9780753436400

Editeur : Kingfisher Books Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Numbers and maths are all around us. They can explain where electricity comes from, why we look like our parents, why moons revolve around planets, and why it’s so hard to win the lottery. We’ve Got Your Number investigates all aspects of mathematics and numbers and is arranged in a number of thematic chapters. Within each chapter is a series of self-contained spreads, each of which investigates all aspects of a specific subject, such as the different counting bases or the evolution of money. Each spread comprises concise and accessible running text with boxes, which belong to four main types: Good at Sums provides brief biographies of great mathematicians; Try This at Home is a series of entertaining number games and puzzles; What’s Your Problem? presents real-life challenges such as calculating the size of the Earth and shows how maths has solved them; while What’s In a Number? provides a fact-file `biography’ of iconic numbers, such as zero, 1, 3, `unlucky’ 13 and 1 million.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mukul Patel developed and edited science & technology. He was the consultant/contributing editor on Scientific American's How Things Work Today and has also written technology articles for NASDAQ magazine. Mukul has been passionate about maths since childhood and studied for an MSci in mathematics at Imperial College, London. He also keen on 'recreational' maths, and the intersection of mathematics and literature, particularly the work of the French group OuLiPo. He is the author of We've Got Your Number.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kingfisher Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 075343640X
• ISBN 13: 9780753436400
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible