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A Quick History of Math: From Counting Cavemen to Computers(Quick Histories)

A Quick History of Math: From Counting Cavemen to Computers(Quick Histories)


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Math + history + jokes - boring bits = A Quick History of Math. This book begins around 43,000 years ago with a notched baboon leg, the Lebombo bone (the very first mathematical object in the world) and rushes us past Hindu numerals and the invention of zero, via Pythagoras, Pascal and probability, right up to the present day, with big data and the maths that rules our digital lives. Geometri-cool!   You will discover: How to count on your fingers (there are more ways than you might think!) Why we have 60 seconds in a minute (hint: it’s to do with the ancient Babylonians) How to count like an Egyptian (using hieroglyphs) Why it’s hip to be square using square numbers A Pythagorean party trick The naked truth of Archimedes’ bath time mathematics How to do matha-magic with magic squares …and much more. In chronological order from pre-history to present day, this is the story of maths itself. It’s 43,000 years of human mathematical endeavor squeezed into one book for your reading pleasure. Illustrated with funny cartoons and packed with fascinating facts, you’ll be laughing and learning how to be a better mathematician.  

Table of Contents:
Introduction The Lebombo bone - The first ever mathematical object Keeping track - Tally sticks and the history of counting Fingers and toes - Why we count in tens Home number - The first written numbers Babylonian bases - Math 4,000 years ago Count like an Egyptian - Hieroglyphic numbers Huh, thanks a million! - The first ever symbol for one million Fractious about fractions - The use of fractions in ancient Egypt Monumental math - Multiplication in Egyptian times Those geometric Greeks - Geometry 3,000 years ago Throwing shapes - The Platonic solids Easy as pi - The ratio between a circle’s circumference and diameter Living by numbers. - Pythagoras and his theorem It's hip to be square - What is a square number? Prove it! - The first mathematical proofs Who are Eu... clid? - More Greek geometry from 2,300 years ago In a relationship - What is a ratio? Paradoxes - Puzzles to baffle your brain Prime time - How Eratosthenes found prime numbers Eratosthenes vs. the Earth - The first accurate measurement of the Earth The naked truth - Archimedes and his mathematical discoveries Roaming with the Romans - Roman numerals The art of mathematics - Adding up and taking away in ancient China Magic squares - Chinese math puzzles Maya math - Counting in the Americas Oh, Maya days - The amazing Mayan calendars Big fat zero - The invention of zero Numbering up - The origin of the numbers 1 to 9 Thinking irrationally - The discovery of irrational numbers The House of Wisdom - Arabic advances in math around the 9th century AlgebraaAargh!  - The invention of algebra Spies and symmetry - Arabic mathematical code breaking Maths heads west - How Arabic math spread to Europe Fab Fibonacci - A fascinating number sequence Exponential potential - What are exponential numbers? Jolly logarithms - The invention of logarithmic tables Pascal's patterns - Number fun in the 17th century What are the chances? - Understanding probability Stat Attack! - What are statistics? Clever carl and The spread of stats - More ways to use statistics The calculus wars - What is calculus? Oi OI, Euler! - Swiss-whizz Leonhard Euler’s discoveries 92 Just my imagination - What are imaginary numbers? Get set, go! - What are number sets? Computers in skirts - How big sums were done before machines Brilliant binary - Binary numbers and algebra Through the logic gate - Boolean logic and logic gates Machine math - Calculating on modern computers Funky theories - Far-out mathematical ideas Big data - How math rules our lives Future math - Predictions for what happens next Timeline of math discoveries When math goes wrong... Mental Math Glossary Index  

About the Author :
Clive Gifford has travelled to more than 70 countries, climbed rocket launch towers, ridden on robots and flown gliders. He's had more than 200 books published and received nominations for or won Royal Society, School Library Association, Smithsonian and TES awards. He won the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Book with Facts 2019 for his title The Colours of History (QED). Clive lives in Manchester, UK. Michael Young is an illustrator and animator from Perth, Western Australia.

Review :
“Irreverent [and] surprisingly amusing.”


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780711249035
  • Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Wide Eyed Editions
  • Height: 224 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Series Title: Quick Histories
  • Sub Title: From Counting Cavemen to Computers
  • Width: 171 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0711249032
  • Publisher Date: 06 Apr 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 358 gr


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