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Gifford, Clive.
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Mathematics -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Gifford, Clive.
Mathematics -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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A quick history of math : from counting cavemen to computers / Clive Gifford and Michael Young.
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Gifford, Clive.
Wide Eyed Editions, c2020.
Call #:
510
.9
G458q
Subjects
Mathematics -- History -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780711249035 (sc)
Description:
127 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
The Lebombo bone -- Keeping track -- Fingers and toes -- Home number -- Babylonian bases -- Count like an Egyptian -- Huh, thanks a million! -- Fractious about fractions -- Monumental math -- Those geometric Greeks -- Throwing shapes -- Easy as pi -- Living by numbers -- It's hip to be square -- Prove it! -- Who are EU...clid? -- In a relationship -- Paradoxes -- Prime time -- Eratosthenes vs. the earth -- The naked truth -- Roaming with the Romans -- The art of mathematics -- Magic squares -- Maya math -- Oh, Maya days -- Big fat zero -- Numbering up -- Thinking irrationally -- The house of wisdom -- Algebraaaargh! -- Spies and symmetry -- Math heads west -- Fab Fibonacci -- Exponential potential -- Jolly logarithms -- Pascal's patterns -- What are the chances? -- Stat attack! -- Clever Carl and the spread of stats -- The calculus wars -- Oi oi, Euler! -- Just my imagination -- Get set, go! -- Computers in skirts -- Brilliant binary -- Through the logic gate -- Machine math -- Big data -- Future math -- Timeline of math discoveries -- When math goes wrong ... -- Mental math.
Summary:
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.
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Young, Michael, 1953-
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