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50 ideas you really need to know. Maths / Tony Crilly.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Quercus, [2014]Description: 208 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781848667051 (hbk.) :
Other title:
  • Maths
  • Fifty ideas you really need to know
Uniform titles:
  • 50 mathematical ideas you really need to know
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 510 23
LOC classification:
  • QA99
Summary: Who invented zero? Why 60 seconds in a minute? How big is infinity? Where do parallel lines meet? And can a butterfly's wings really cause a storm on the far side of the world? Professor Tony Crilly explains in 50 clear and concise essays the mathematical concepts - ancient and modern, theoretical and practical, everyday and esoteric - that allow us to understand and shape the world around us.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 510 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R15123K0499

Originally published: as 50 mathematical ideas you really need to know. 2007.

Includes index.

Who invented zero? Why 60 seconds in a minute? How big is infinity? Where do parallel lines meet? And can a butterfly's wings really cause a storm on the far side of the world? Professor Tony Crilly explains in 50 clear and concise essays the mathematical concepts - ancient and modern, theoretical and practical, everyday and esoteric - that allow us to understand and shape the world around us.

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