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Paperback / softbackThe Book of Wonders: The Many Lives of Euclid's Elements
Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how...
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
Author: Professor Ian Stewart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 What's the Use? asks why there is such a vast gulf between public perceptions of mathematics and reality....
Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes The Strange Maths Behind the Modern World
Author: Richard Elwes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 What can we learn from fish in a pond? How do social networks connect the world? How can artificial...
Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty
Author: Professor Ian Stewart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex...
Go Figure: The Marvellous Maths Workbook
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Maths is one of those tricky subjects that continues to throw us problems, even after our school days. From...
Brief Lives - Newton (Peter Ackroyd)
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives. NEWTON is a companion volume to CHAUCER and TURNER...