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  • The Great Mathematicians

    Unravelling the Mysteries of the Universe

    de Raymond Flood, Robin Wilson ...
    Why did Florence Nightingale introduce pie charts? How did Lewis Carroll regard Pythagoras? Who learned calculus from her nursery wallpaper?Spanning from the ancient world to the modern age, The Great Mathematicians tells fascinating and unusual tales of the men and women who transformed mathematics. We meet the mathematician who knew eight languages by the time he was 11, the one who was sent to ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Great Mathematicians

    de Raymond Flood, Robin Wilson ...
    Mathematics pervades our daily lives. It is intimately involved whenever one starts a car, switches on the television, flies on a plane, forecasts the weather, books a holiday on the internet, programmes a computer, navigates heavy traffic, analyses statistical data, or seeks a cure for a disease. Our credit cards and the nation's defence secrets are kept secure by encryption methods based on ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Isaac Newton

    Remarkable Lives

    de Robin Wilson, Raymond Flood ...
    Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), mathematician and physicist, is one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. This fully illustrated, accessible guide to the life and work of Isaac Newton is the perfect introduction to his groundbreaking work on gravity, motion, optics, light, colour and calculus. It also considers his lesser known research into chemistry, theology and alchemy while ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Great Mathematicians

    de Rosie Wilson, Raymond Flood ...
    Series series Great People in History
    The achievements of great mathematical thinkers from ancient times to the modern age are examined through engaging, accessible text. Fascinating profiles of time-measurers like the Mayans and Huygens, arithmeticians like Pythagoras and al-Khwarizmi, logicians like Aristotle and Russell, and many more. Readers can follow along on these thinkers’ quests to explain the patterns in the world around ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Oxford Figures

    Eight Centuries of the Mathematical Sciences

    Edición de John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, Robin Wilson ...
    This is the story of the intellectual and social life of a community, and of its interactions with the wider world. For eight centuries mathematics has been researched and studied at Oxford, and the subject and its teaching have undergone profound changes during that time. This highly readable and beautifully illustrated book reveals the richness and influence of Oxford's mathematical tradition ... Leer más

    $81.99 USD

  • Mathematics at the Meridian

    The History of Mathematics at Greenwich

    Edición de Raymond Flood, Tony Mann, Mary Croarken ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Series
    Greenwich has been a centre for scientific computing since the foundation of the Royal Observatory in 1675. Early Astronomers Royal gathered astronomical data with the purpose of enabling navigators to compute their longitude at sea. Nevil Maskelyne in the 18th century organised the work of computing tables for the Nautical Almanac, anticipating later methods used in safety-critical computing ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • James Clerk Maxwell

    Perspectives on his Life and Work

    Edición de Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney, Andrew Whitaker ...
    James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) had a relatively brief, but remarkable life, lived in his beloved rural home of Glenlair, and variously in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, London and Cambridge. His scholarship also ranged wide - covering all the major aspects of Victorian natural philosophy. He was one of the most important mathematical physicists of all time, coming only after Newton and Einstein. In ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Mathematics in Victorian Britain

    de Foreword by Dr Adam Hart-Davis, Writer, photographer and broadcaster ...
    During the Victorian era, industrial and economic growth led to a phenomenal rise in productivity and invention. That spirit of creativity and ingenuity was reflected in the massive expansion in scope and complexity of many scientific disciplines during this time, with subjects evolving rapidly and the creation of many new disciplines. The subject of mathematics was no exception and many of the ... Leer más

    $51.29 USD

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  • The Story of Mathematics

    From creating the pyramids to exploring infinity

    de Anne Rooney ...
    Series series The Story of
    'In order to understand the universe you must know the language in which it is written. And that language is mathematics.'- Galileo (1564-1642)For hundreds of thousands of years, we have sought order in the apparent chaos of the universe. Mathematics has been our most valuable tool in that search, uncovering the patterns and rules that govern our world and beyond. How the World Works: Mathematics ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The History of Physics from 2000BCE to 1945

    de Sheldon Cohen ...
    Physics is the science that deals with the properties and interrelationship of matter and energy. It studies mechanics, heat, light, sound, electricity, magnetism, radiation, and atomic structure. This tale stretches from 2000 BCE to 1945 and introduces the reader to the brilliant men and women from Thales of Miletos to Albert Einstein who working alone or collaboratively made it all possible. ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Why Is It So Hard To Learn Math?

    de Richard Porr ...
    If you are having difficulty learning math, you already know you are not alone. Many people struggle with math. In fact, it is the one discipline in which low grades and low performance are almost universally acceptable because they are so common. For example, a parent is more likely to excuse a lower report card grade in math than in any other subject because that parent probably got lower grades ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The New Biography of the Universe

    de Matthias Matting ...
    May I introduce: the universe. Born 13.75 billion years ago. Constantly growing. Nearly empty. Electrically neutral. Poor in antimatter. Populated by 100 billion galaxies, including 130 sextillion stars with approximately just as many planets.Consisting of only 4 percent known forms of matter. The other 96 percent is made up of 23 percent dark matter and 73 percent dark energy. The home of black ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD