Mathematics: An Illustrated History of Numbers - Hardcover
Title: Mathematics( An Illustrated History of Numbers [With 12-Page Removable Timeline]) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: TomJackson <>Publisher: ShelterHarborPress
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- PublisherShelter Harbor Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0985323019
- ISBN 13 9780985323011
- BindingHardcover
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Mathematics: An Illustrated History of Numbers
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. New oversized casewrapped hardcover. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, index, tables, figures, photos, a 12 page removable timeline, and illustrations. 144 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. NEW EDITION includes an updated removable fold-out concertina neatly housed in the back of the book, providing a 12-page timeline that traces the history of mathematics from the very beginning all the way up to 2017. The reverse side features some of the greatest mathematical enigmas and interesting facts about the world of numbers. Legend has it that the first magic square, where all lines and diagonals add up to the same figure, was revealed more than 2,000 years ago when a river turtle appeared to have ancient Chinese numerals inscribed on sections of its shell. Patterns are everywhere in nature, and counting, measuring, and calculating changes are as old as civilization itself, as are many of the theorems and laws of math. The Pythagorean Theorem was used to plot out fields for planting crops before Pythagoras was even born, but the story begins long before that, with tally marks on rock and bone surviving from the Stone Age. Here is the essential guide to mathematics, an authoritative reference book and timeline that explores the work of history's greatest mathematicians. From the genius of Pierre de Fermat, who said he knew the answers but rarely gave them up, to the fractal pattern discovered by Waclaw Sierpinski now used to plan the route a mailman takes, here are 100 landmark moments in this intensely rigorous discipline, seen through the eyes of the people who lived them. Glimpse the abstract landscape of infinite numbers and multi-dimensional shapes as you learn about the most famous math men of all. Pythagoras had a love of numbers so strong it led to a violent death. Then there is Fibonacci, whose guide for bookkeepers changed the way we add and Descartes, who took inspiration from a fly to convert numbers into shapes and back again, changing math forever. Over many centuries, great minds puzzled over the evidence and, step-by-step, edged ever closer to the truth. Behind every one of these breakthrough moments there's a story about a confounding puzzle that became a discovery and changed the way we see the world. Seller Inventory # 100696
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