Numbers: How Counting Changed the World

Author(s): Tom Jackson

Encycopaedias, Science, Maths & reference materials

Think math is boring? Think again! Numbers: How Counting Changed the World cracks open the history of numbers to explore the surprising, fascinating, and sometimes mind-boggling evolution of mathematics through the ages. Did you know that the division symbol is actually a dagger? Or that something as simple as 1, 2, 3, nearly ended up breaking math for good? What is an imaginary number exactly? Numbers may seem simple on the surface but they will defy your imagination. Written to engage, entertain and enthuse readers young and old, Numbers: How Counting Changed the World takes an entirely new approach to the wonderful world of mathematics. Along the way, readers will meet the early geniuses who figured out what numbers are and what we could do with them. Theyll learn how numbers influence almost everything around us from the invention of the first computer, to the way we count and experience time itself. And theyll encounter strange and quirky stories about some of maths biggest names. From John Napier, the inventor of algorithms, who never went anywhere without his pet rooster, to Pythagoras, who just might have been a murderer, Numbers: How Counting Changed the World shows that there is much more to numbers than 1, 2, 3.

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General Fields

  • : 9781627950749
  • : Shelter Harbor Press
  • : Shelter Harbor Press
  • : 0.658
  • : March 2017
  • : 1.8 Centimeters X 19 Centimeters X 22.8 Centimeters
  • : United States
  • : March 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : General Adult
  • : 511
  • : English
  • : 517
  • : Paperback
  • : Tom Jackson