Mathematics Minus Fear: How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life - Couverture souple

Potter, Lawrence

 
9781605985176: Mathematics Minus Fear: How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life

Synopsis

How can math help you win on the horses? What's the foolproof way to solve Sudoku? How can probability teach you to calculate your chances of survival in Russian roulette? In this irreverent and entertaining guide to mathematics, Lawrence Potter takes the fear out of everything from long division to percentages. Using fascinating puzzles and surprising examples, he shows us how math is connected with the world we encounter every day, from how the VAT works to why weather forecasts are wrong, from winning at Monopoly to improving your mental arithmetic. Along the way you'll also discover who invented numbers, whether animals can count and what nuns have to do with long multiplication.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lawrence Potter attended Oxford University and graduated with a degree in classics before becoming an adventurous mathematics teacher in Romania and Rwanda. He is the author of This May Help You Understand the World and lives in London.

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9781605983769: Mathematics Minus Fear: How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life

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ISBN 10 :  1605983764 ISBN 13 :  9781605983769
Editeur : Pegasus Books, 2012
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